Item no. S589 (stamp)
Type: stamp
Country: French Polynesia
Date of issue: 16 October 1996
Catalog number: Scott no. 693
Stamp honoring HENRI LEMASSON (1870 – 1956), French postal administrator for Oceania and amateur photographer. He made 186 photographs of Polynesian natives, and three of the photographs were used for stamp issues. The stamp’s design is based on portrait of young Tahitian girl Noho Mercier, taken by Lemasson.