IMAGE
Maori group alongside a meeting house at the New Zealand International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-1907
- Date
- [ca 1906-7]
- Reference
- PAColl-6585-52
- Description
Unidentified Maori group alongside a meeting house in the Maori Court of the New Zealand International Exhibition in Christchurch, 1906-7. This building was made up of parts of Rahurahu meeting house from Orakei Korako, together with other carvings from the Dominion Museum. Photographer unidentified.
Note from `Carved Maori Houses of Western and Northern Areas of New Zealand' by William J Phillipps, 1955, page 192-4 reads: "Somewhere about the turn of the century this house [Rahurahu] fell into disrepair, and was later acquired by the Dominion Museum. In the year 1906, when erecting a superior house in the Maori Court at the Christchurch Exhibition, the carvings of this building were used by Augustus Hamilton, together with certain other carvings in the Dominion Museum."
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11.3 x 15.4 cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 14
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print 11.3 x 15.4 cm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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