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Postcard. Washing day, Whakarewarewa. Copyright T Pringle, Wellington, NZ, 105. Printed...
Date: 1906 - 1908
From: [Ten postcards collected by Kathleen Quinn, nee Plunkett. 1906-1910]
By: Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931
Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Quinn-01
Description: Coloured photographic postcard shows two Maori women squatting beside a hot pool with their washing. The woman in the right foreground is smoking a pipe. The handwritten message on the verso is from Mary (Polly) Plunkett to her mother in Britain, expressing Mary's fondness for her mother and her longing to be with her. Her description of the picture on the card reads: "Dear Mother, This is how the natives wash there [sic] things they are very big woman [sic] and the [sic] mostly all smoke a pipe". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Chromolithograph on postcard, 90 x 140 mm.