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Members of the Ngawati family alongside an pou rahui used to mark eel fishing territories, Otiria, Northland
- Date
- 1929
- Reference
- 1/4-018226-G
- Description
Members of the Ngawati family alongside a pou rahui used to mark eel fishing territories. Wiremu Ngawai is the man on the right. The man on the left is his son Ariki Hanara Ngawati. The two women at the rear are also members of the Ngawati family. Photograph taken on a tour in Northland in 1929 during which Maori artefacts were collected for the Auckland Museum. Photographer unidentified, possibly D H Graham.
The house in this photograph is Wiremu Ngawati's old family home in Otitia, close to the Otiria railway station. It was used by T W Ratana as a 'halfway house' during his travels in the north. This information, and further information regarding the pou rahui is at "A Pou Rahui from a North Auckland Eel-Fishery" by Roger Neich of the Auckland Institute and Museum, published in the New Zealand Journal of Archaeology, 1991, Vol 13, pp 59-64)
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Glass negative
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Graham, David Henry, 1885-1965: Photographs of taonga Maori (Maori artefacts) / Graham, David Henry, 1885-1965 :Photographs of taonga Maori (Maori artefacts)
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Group portraits, Glass negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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Members of the Ngawati family alongside an pou rahui used to mark eel fishing territories, Otiria, Northland. Graham, David Henry, 1885-1965: Photographs of taonga Maori (Maori artefacts). Ref: 1/4-018226-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22749562More information can be found in our terms of use.