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Hira Nutira and Tiemi Whatiri at Lake Forsyth, Canterbury - Photograph taken by K V Big...
Date: May 1948
From: Tourist and Publicity
By: Bigwood, Kenneth Valentine, 1920-1992
Reference: 1/2-040049-F
Description: Hira Nutira (left) and Tiemi Whaitiri trapping eels at Lake Forsyth, Canterbury, May 1948. Photograph taken by K V Bigwood for the National Publicity Studios. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.
Mrs Nutira boning eels, Lake Forsyth, Canterbury - Photograph taken by K V Bigwood
Date: May 1948
From: Tourist and Publicity
By: Bigwood, Kenneth Valentine, 1920-1992
Reference: 1/2-040043-F
Description: Mrs Nutira boning eels, next to her house at Lake Forsyth, Canterbury, May 1948. Photograph taken by K V Bigwood for the National Publicity Studios. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.
Eel weir on Hokio Stream
Date: 29 November 1925
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-002-082
Description: Eel weir (pa tuna) named Ruataniwha, on the Hokio Stream. Photograph taken 29 November 1925 by G L Adkin. Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - 82. Eel-weir (pa-tuna) - named Ruataniwha - on the Hokio Stream. 29.11.25 Arrangement: Image in PA1-q-002 on page 18 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10.7 x 15.4 cm, mounted on album page
Members of the Ngawati family alongside an pou rahui used to mark eel fishing territori...
Date: 1929
From: Graham, David Henry, 1885-1965: Photographs of taonga Maori (Maori artefacts)
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
Whata (for drying eels) on the shore of Lake Forsyth, Canterbury
Date: 1948
From: Tourist and Publicity
Reference: 1/2-040701-F
Description: Whata (for drying eels) on the shore of Lake Forsyth, Canterbury, 1948. Photograph taken for the National Publicity Studios. Photographer unidentified Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.
Splitting, boning and drying eels at Lake Forsyth, Canterbury - Photograph taken by K V...
Date: May 1948
From: Tourist and Publicity
By: Bigwood, Kenneth Valentine, 1920-1992
Reference: 1/2-040044-F
Description: Splitting, boning and drying eels at Lake Forsyth, Canterbury, with seagulls in foreground awaiting scraps. From left: Mrs Nutira, Hira Nutira and Tiemi Whaitiri. Photograph taken May 1948, for the National Publicity Studios by K V Bigwood. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.
Creator unknown : Photograph of Waingongoro River, Taranaki, taken by J Faris
Date: 1888
By: Faris, J, active 1888
Reference: PAColl-4356
Description: Photograph of an eel weir on the Waingongoro River in Taranaki taken by J Faris in 1888, and printed by J K Hammonds, chemist, Inglewood. Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print. Weir recognised by cataloguer. Inscriptions: Verso - Waingongoro River, Taranaki by J Faris 1888 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10.6 x 15.4 cm
Eeling
Date: May 1948
From: Tourist and Publicity
By: Bigwood, Kenneth Valentine, 1920-1992
Reference: 1/2-040047-F
Description: Mr H Nutira checking eels drying on the banks of Lake Forsyth, Central Canterbury. Mrs Nutira is seated in the centre of the group of women weaving. Taken by K V Bigwood in May 1948. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.
Mrs and Mrs Nutira preparing eels for drying, Lake Forsyth, Canterbury - Photograph tak...
Date: May 1948
From: Tourist and Publicity
By: Bigwood, Kenneth Valentine, 1920-1992
Reference: 1/2-040040-F
Description: Mrs and Mrs H Nutira preparing eels drying, by their house at Lake Forsyth, Canterbury, May 1948. The eels were caught the previous night. Photograph taken by K V Bigwood for the National Publicity Studios. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.
Eel drying racks at Lake Forsyth, Canterbury - Photograph taken by K V Bigwood
Date: May 1948
From: Tourist and Publicity
By: Bigwood, Kenneth Valentine, 1920-1992
Reference: 1/2-040042-F
Description: Eel drying racks at Lake Forsyth, Canterbury, May 1948. Shows a four tier drying rack, loaded with eels, on the banks of Lake Forsyth. An unidentified man with eels over his arm is walking near the racks. Photograph taken for the National Publicity Studios by K V Bigwood. Caption - Original caption reads: "Every morning the drying eels are hung out and returned indoors at night. Wind is the drying agent." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.