"Kawhia; Where the Tainui canoe rests"

"Kawhia; Where the Tainui canoe rests"
Date
ca 1933
Reference
PA1-o-116-85
Description

"Kawhia; Where the Tainui canoe rests." Records of a visit to Kawhia Harbour and the place where the Tainui canoe is said to be burried. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1933

Top left photograph (PA1-o-116-85-1). View of a stretch of beach. On album page below print is written "The pah"

Top right photograph (PA1-o-116-85-2). View across the sea to buildings on the edge of the land. On bottom of print is written "Tainui Glade from a launch"

Bottom left photograph (PA1-o-116-85-3). Group of Boy Scouts sitting on the ground under scrub trees. On album page below print is written "The stone over burried canoe"

Bottom right photograph (PA1-o-116-85-4). An upright stone standing among scrub trees above a beach. On the top of the print is written "Kawhia." On the bottom of the print is written "Stone marking the buried Tainui [canoe]"

On the centre of the album page is drawn a map showing harbours from Manakau to Awakino

Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Part of
Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India / Craddock album 6
Format
4 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin prints
See original record

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"Kawhia; Where the Tainui canoe rests". Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India. Ref: PA1-o-116-85. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22671531

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