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| 1920: Victory |
The 'Victory' set of stamps were designed and printed in London in 1919 and were available there for sale 3 months before the issue was released in New Zealand. Philatelists in New Zealand received their stamps from UK dealers before they were available for sale from New Zealand's post offices. The stamp shows a Maori Chief wearing the tail feathers of the now extinct Huia and a Whakai or ear pendant made from shark teeth.
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| 1946: Local Motives |
The Tikar people are known as great artisans, artists and story tellers and by the looks of this stamp, hair stylists.
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| 1914-1933: Market |
The long running issue from Senegal of food being prepared at a market.
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| 1966: 100th Anniversary of the Naprstek's Ethnographic Museum, Prague |
The Naprstek Museum specialises in collections of Asian, African and American culture and was founded by Vojtech Naprsek who converted his family brewery into a museum and library, after WW2 the museum has focused on non European culture.
And lastly I couldn't resist including this happy person - Kachima a 'good spirit' of the Hopi tribe.
Sunday Stamps theme this week is - indigenous people - meet them at See It On A Postcard
3 comments:
I like these old designs.
I like to see African hairstyles celebrated, and there are some nice ones of people doing normal work/life things on stamps.
A whole museum focusing on non European culture!
What a great variety of stamps!!!! I like them all.
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