IMAGE
Rihipete Nikorima and baby - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington
- Date
- [ca 1900]
- Reference
- 1/1-003095
- Description
Portrait of a young woman with a moko, carrying her baby on her back enclosed in her cloak (pikau). Photographed by William Henry Thomas Partington in early 1900s, probably at Wanganui.
On the back of the file print she is identified as Rihipeti Nihorima or Nikorima, Wanganui River. In the same photograph held by the Whanganui Museum she is identified as Rihipeti Rewi of Ngati Poutama iwi.
Source of descriptive information - Te Awa; Partington's photographs of Whanganui Maori, p 67 (Whanganui Museum Collection)
Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - bottom left - 27
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Auckland Star :Negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Portraits, Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches, Orientation: Vertical image
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