Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei waahanga - I whanau a Emma Carolina Helena Zickerman i te 29 o Mei 1858 i Skövde, Västergötland, he tamahine na te kaihanga rongoa a Carl Peter Zickerman me tana wahine a Hedvig Amalia née Malmgren. I tipu ake ia i Skövde me ona tuakana tokotoru. Whai muri i tana ako i te tuitui me te tuitui i te kura i whakahaerehia e nga Hoa o te Handcraft i Stockholm, ka hoki ia ki Skövde i te tau 1886 i reira ia i whakaako ai i nga toi papanga, me te mahi tahi me Agnes Behmer, i whakatuwherahia he toa whakairo e hoko ana i a raatau mahi me a raatau tauira. I te tau e whai ake nei ka ako ia i te Whare Taonga o Kensington ki te Tonga ka haere ki te whakaatu i te Whakaaturanga o Stockholm 1897
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