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The Picture Postcard as Art: Images from the Golden Era (#85MG) Closed

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Lot 739MAORI: original drawing on a postCard of a female mokomokai by HG Robley & initialled "GR", unused. Unique & culturally important. [Robley became an avid student of Maori culture & acquired the extraordinary number of 35 mokomokai (the heads of heavily tatooed Maori - moko - that were severed after death & treated for preservation). Also an original drawing of a Tiki & other artefacts on a postCard, probably by Robley but not initialled or signed] (2)

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The Picture Postcard as Art: Images from the Golden Era (#85MG) Closed

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  • MAORI: original drawing on a postCard of a female mokomokai by HG Robley & initialled "GR", unused. Unique & culturally important. [Robley became an avid student of Maori culture & acquired the extraordinary number of 35 mokomokai (the heads of heavily ta
  • MAORI: original drawing on a postCard of a female mokomokai by HG Robley & initialled "GR", unused. Unique & culturally important. [Robley became an avid student of Maori culture & acquired the extraordinary number of 35 mokomokai (the heads of heavily ta - 2
  • MAORI: original drawing on a postCard of a female mokomokai by HG Robley & initialled "GR", unused. Unique & culturally important. [Robley became an avid student of Maori culture & acquired the extraordinary number of 35 mokomokai (the heads of heavily ta - 3
  • MAORI: original drawing on a postCard of a female mokomokai by HG Robley & initialled "GR", unused. Unique & culturally important. [Robley became an avid student of Maori culture & acquired the extraordinary number of 35 mokomokai (the heads of heavily ta - 4
  • MAORI: original drawing on a postCard of a female mokomokai by HG Robley & initialled "GR", unused. Unique & culturally important. [Robley became an avid student of Maori culture & acquired the extraordinary number of 35 mokomokai (the heads of heavily ta - 5
  • MAORI: original drawing on a postCard of a female mokomokai by HG Robley & initialled "GR", unused. Unique & culturally important. [Robley became an avid student of Maori culture & acquired the extraordinary number of 35 mokomokai (the heads of heavily ta - 6