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A caption identifies the photographer as [James?] Iles, who was active in New Zealand from 1870 to 1929.

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140 x 205 mm. Portrait of a young Moari woman. Photographer's stamp etched in lower right corner 'ILES PHOTO 159 THAMES NZ'.

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230 x 265 mm. Studio portrait of a young Maori woman standing.

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135 x 200 mm. Studio portrait of a Maori woman. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. REGISTERED. No.59’.

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139 x 200 mm. A posed portrait of a young Maori woman standing. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. AUCKLAND.Z. No.160’.

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140 x 200 mm. A posed studio portrait of a young Maori woman standing. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. ROTORUA. No.130’.

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230 x 265 mm. A posed studio portrait of a young Maori woman. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. ROTORUA.No.52'. This image was also issued as a postcard.

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An undated watercolour on card, 9'' x 12''. The picture appears to have been primarily intended to show the carving of the stern-piece of the canoe; the Maori girl paddling has only been sketched roughly.

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138 x 293 mm. A posed portrait of two young Maori women standing. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. 69. THAMES.No.2’.

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202 x 144 mm. A group portrait of Maori women and girls, posed by the entrance of an assembly house. Apart from the girl at the right, who wears a kahu-huruhuru or feather cloak, the group is dressed in European clothes.

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139 x 200 mm. Studio portrait of two Maori women. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. ROTORUA. No. 210’. Another copy is filed at Y3089FF/6.

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139 x 200 mm. Studio portrait of two Maori women. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. ROTORUA. No.210’. Another copy is filed at Y3089FF/39.

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139 x 201 mm. A portrait of two Maori women. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. 83. THAMES. N.Z’.

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140 x 200 mm. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘MAORI HAKA. ILES PHOTO. ROTORUA’.

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135 x 200 mm.

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152 x 197 mm. A photograph composed of a montage of Maori portraits, interspersed with landscape studies and photographs of Maori houses. The caption reads ‘Maori Land. The Maori portraits are originals-taken from life. Burton Brothers, photographers, Number forty-one Princes Street’.

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140 x 200 mm.

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The postcard is captioned 'T.K. 8 Maoriland Photographic Series'.

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Landscape format.

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Landscape format.

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75 x 55 mm. A pa is a fortified place built by Maori.

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194 x 140 mm. A view showing a Maori memorial to a person of high rank. A palisade of wooden stakes shuts off an area inside of which a wooden hut can be seen. Facing outwards is a large wooden carving on three blocks of wood. Above this is a partly illegible notice reading ‘Kotehura [one word illegible] 1882’.

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Print at RCMS 353/2/209.

Scope and Contents 143 x 202 mm. A head and shoulders portrait of an elderly Maori, with a feather in his hair and a fur cloak draped over one shoulder. This powerful photograph illustrates well the art of tattooing and shows the depth to which the incised swirls and curlicues were cut into the face. The instrument used, an adze shaped shaft with a bone blade called uhi, was struck with a small mallet and the line chiselled out from the flesh of the face. The implement was dipped regularly into a mixture of...

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Monochrome postcards, portraits, including Ngapka, a Maori warrior and Kewhe Taukau, a Maori chief. Two further men are identified as Paora Tuhaere and Te Ritimana, Te Rapoutu.