IMAGE
View of Pohaturoa Rock across the Waikato River near Atiamuri
- Date
- ca 1908
- Reference
- PA1-f-179-41-3
- Description
View of Pohaturoa Rock across the Waikato River. The rock is situated near Atiamuri. Photographed by Thomas Pringle in about 1908
The rock is a volcanic crag or "plug" of rhyolite rising 245m above the Waikato River. It figures in the tribal narratives of both the Arawa and Ngati Raukawa people, and was often used as a lookout post during inter-tribal wars. During the 20th century it was surrounded and covered by a commercial state pine forest.
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums / Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931:"Camera Notes Between Wanganui and Rotorua"
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print
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