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Ceremony outside the Te Whai-a-te-Motu meeting house, Mataatua
Date: ca 1910
From: Blue album
By: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935
Reference: PA1-o-042-19-1
Description: Unidentified ceremony outside the Te Whai-a-te-Motu meeting house at the Mataatua, circa 1910. In the foreground, seated alongside the carved figure on the meeting house porch pole, are Tutakangahau (left), and Hekerangi. Most are dressed in a mixture of European and Maori clothing. Two men leading the ceremony are wearing kahu huruhuru (feather cloaks). Photograph taken by Thomas Pringle. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Te Awh[i?] Taupara Mataatua Hemi Atama Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: SIlver gelatin print 11.1 x 15.8 cm
Photographs of Maungapohatu taken when the Asher family attended events to mark the ret...
Date: Aug 2007
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
By: Asher, Monica Innes, active 2003-2007
Reference: PADL-000622
Description: Photographs taken in Maungapohatu in August 2007 by Innes Asher. Taken when the family visited to attend events held around 4 August 2007 to mark the return of land from the Presbyterian Church to the local people. Some images include paediatrician Innes Asher (great grand-daughter of Presbyterian minister Reverend John Alexander Asher (1864-1948). Images include a group, including Asher, having a hangi meal at the marae; Anne Bill; further groups and scenes including Asher; exterior of the almost derelict Maungapohatu Mission School and Chapel; interior of the Chapel; scenes with exteriors of Tane-nui-a-Rangi and Te-Whai-a-te-Motu meeting houses; details of the painted Maori carvings on the exterior and verandah of the Te-Whai-a-te-Motu house. Source of descriptive information - Photographer, and family relationship between Rev Asher and Innes Asher, from personal communication with Innes Asher. Relationship complexity - Further images taken during this visit are at PADL-000611. They were taken at Ruatahuna. Arrangement: Files were originally in a folder labelled 'For Wayne' Quantity: 66 digital photograph(s).