IMAGE
Koruru figure head from meeting house gable
- Date
- 1933
- Reference
- PA1-f-009-60-321
- Description
Original caption reads "Koruru (figure head in gable) of the old Kotahitanga meeting house at Manankau. Height, 3ft; width, 2ft.6in. Extremely heavy." Photographed by George Leslie Adkin on 26 November 1933.
Kotahitanga was the name of a meeting house built about 1863 at Manakau, a community south of Levin. It was built to bring together the Ngati Wehiwehi people of Manakau with the Maori King movement. It was pulled down about 1936.
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 13.7 x 10.6 cm, mounted on album page
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua / Adkin album 27
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print 13.7 x 10.6 cm, mounted on album page
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Koruru figure head from meeting house gable. Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua. Ref: PA1-f-009-60-321. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22903164More information can be found in our terms of use.