Te Ao Hou Marae is located at 356 Somme Parade, Aramoho, Whanganui. Its principal hapū is Ngāti Tupoho of the iwi Te Ātihaunui a Pāpārangi.
The wharenui is named Te Puawaitanga and the wharekai is Te Ao Marama. The marae connects ancestrally to the waka Aotea, the maunga Taranaki and the awa Whanganui.
Date: 1978
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AW-1724
Description: All scenes taken at Te Ao Mārama at Te Ao Hou Marae on the Whanganui River. Frames 1 to 8 show a small old wooden building with high pitched roof raised off the ground, a board creating a ramp up to the small doorway, decorative trim around the roof and cross-shaped carvings around the door. A young woman is sitting in the shade below the door. Several people wearing black are standing by a new gravestone (frames 10 & 11). In the foreground is the gravestone of "T. Allen. 2/13/733" died 16th April 1942. (Trooper Thomas Allen of the NZ Armoured Corps, buried at Pipiriki.) Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film
Date: 1978
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AW-1725
Description: All scenes taken at Te Ao Mārama at Te Ao Hou Marae on the Whanganui River. In frames 1 & 2 several people, including clergy, are standing around a grave stone which reads "He tohu whakamaharatanga kia. Eruera Te Ngara" and below "Merengue Te Ngara". The man standing with his hands behind his back has been identified as Taika Nikorima. Two women are grieving beside a new gravestone (surrounded by a wire netting fence), in frames 3 to 6, and a large group of clergy and mourners are seen walking away from the camera in frame 9. A young woman is sitting by her baby who is lying under a blanket in the shade, with her toddler beside (frames 7 & 8). A family group is sitting on the grass on a slope in the shade, steep hill with bush and scrub in the background (frames 10 to 12). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film
Date: 1978
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AW-1723
Description: All scenes taken at Te Ao Mārama, at Te Ao Hou marae on the Whanganui River. A group of Māori are seen looking over a barbed wire fence (frame 2), with other images showing people up on a grassy slope, possibly holding song sheets for a service. Several older women are seen in close shots, with fields and a hill behind, and people walking away on a winding path in the background. A woman wearing a large sunhat (frames 7, 8 & 10) has been identified as Alice Poutini (Tume); a small boy with her as Paora Poutini, and a woman with a patterned top and scarf as Ngati Nikorima (frames 9 & 12), and a man with a patterned singlet as TeKanohi Wallace (Nohi). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film
Date: 1978
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AW-1726
Description: All scenes taken at Te Ao Mārama at te Ao Hou Marae on the Whanganui River. A young Māori is riding bareback on a horse in a field rising up hill in the background (frame 1). The marae is seen in the background (frames 2 to 3 & 7 to 8). Hanging on a line from the roof of the marae to a high pole are several large flags. They read "TANEWAOAR[A]NGI", "Ngatikura", and "Tupoho". A group of clergymen are walking towards the marae in frame 2, and are seen also in frames 7 to 12. They are possibly blessing the back of a building in frames 11 and 12. The Kaumatua being assisted is Rangimotuhia Katene. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film
Date: 1978
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AW-1730
Description: All scenes taken at Te Ao Mārama at Te Ao Hou Marae on the Whanganui River. In frame one several young Māori are leaning over a fence looking down towards the Whanganui River (which is just visible in the background on the right). Most of the other images show closeup views of people at the marae, including a woman (identified as Alice Poutini) wearing a large sunhat (frames 7 to 10). Others who have been identified include Wayne Tamati in a white overall (frame 2); Sheila Te Patu in white (frame 3); Rumatiki Ruth Wright (frame 4); Turama Hawira (frame 6); Rua Keremeneta and Betty Rapana Wiari (frame 11); and Jack Gray (frame 12). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film
Date: 1978
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AW-1728
Description: All scenes taken at Te Ao Mārama at Te Ao Hou Marae on the Whanganui River. Frames 1 to 3 show two clergymen wearing vestments, walking near the marae, and standing below a pole linked with the roof of the marae, from which four flags are flying (frame 4). A large group are standing in the doorway (frames 4 & 5); Rangimotuhia Katene is speaking (frame 5); another group is seated in the shade under a tree (frames 6 & 7). Turama Hawira who is now "Te Pou Tupua" o te Awa o Whanganui is seen in frame 11. Other scenes show men, women and children near another building at the Pā. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film
Date: 1978
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AW-1729
Description: All scenes taken at Te Ao Mārama at Te Ao Hou Marae on the Whanganui River. In frame 7 the man in a white singlet has been identified as Alf Adlam, and in frame 8 on the left in a white shirt is John te Huia. Most frames show a queue of men and women being greeted with hongi at the entrance to the wharenui. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film