Photographer unknown :Montage of images associated with Carl Sylvius Volkner 1819-1865

Photographer unknown :Montage of images associated with Carl Sylvius Volkner 1819-1865
Date
1880 - 1900
Reference
PA3-0367
Description

A card showing images from Opotiki in memory of Carl Sylvius Volker. Comprises: `Rev Volkner's house', `Rev Volkner's church', Memorial gravestone of Rev Volkner, `The Gallows Tree', 'Stern-post of war canoe', Baler, 'Head-gear of war canoe', and photograph of Opotiki

Inscriptions: Recto - Memories of a martyr

Carl Sylvius Volkner born in Kassel, Germany, trained as a missionary and was one of several missionaries sent to New Zealand by the North German Missionary Society. He arrived in New Zealand August 1849 and initially worked in Taranaki with fellow German Protestant missionaries before offering his services to the Church Missionary Society (1852). He took charge of the CMS mision station at Opotiki (August 1861). Despite hostilities and ignoring warnings he remained at Opotiki until 1865, when he was taken prisoner , charged with being a spy and was taken to a willow tree and hanged.

Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Format
1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Cabinet photographs, Portraits
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Photographer unknown :Montage of images associated with Carl Sylvius Volkner 1819-1865. Ref: PA3-0367. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22303963

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