Beschreibung:

South America. A group of 19 ethnographic studio portraits of indigenous people of (?)Guyana, c. 1870, each photograph depicting between 1 and 5 men and women, red ruled borders, rounded corners, red ink stamp of 'Wellcome & Anderson, Photographers' to versos and 4 with printed label for 'J.R. Anderson, Photographer' overlaid, together with 3 other similar portraits of indigenous family groups, one seemingly an outdoor setting, all with plain mounts and straight corners, all 3 inscribed in a contemporary hand to versos, 'Bucks or Red-Indians, BC' (Quantity: 22) Very little is known about the firm of Wellcome & Anderson, but they seem to have been based at Georgetown, Demerara [Guyana] in the 1860s. B. Wellcome died in Barbados on 1 January 1875. The three with manuscript inscriptions to versos may suggest these were taken in British Columbia. Canada, but the very scanty clothing attire on most of the people in these photographs is similar to the 'Guyanan' ones and not the buckskins and so forth that one would usually associate with indigenous people of western Canada.