IMAGE
Tangi of Hema te Ao at the Raukawa Meeting House, Otaki.
- Date
- 1932
- Reference
- PA1-f-009-34-241
- Description
Tangi of Hema Te Ao at Raukawa Meeting House with mourners and display of paintings and portraits of relatives and ancestors of deceased. Photographed by George Leslie Adkins on the 17th of April 1932
The meeting house in the photograph is Raukawa I. This was built in 1853, but by the late 1920s had become delapidated. When this photograph was taken the carvings had been removed as the meeting house was undergoing reconstruction. It was replaced by the present Raukawa II which opened in 1936.
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
- Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua / Adkin album 27
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print
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Tangi of Hema te Ao at the Raukawa Meeting House, Otaki.. Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua. Ref: PA1-f-009-34-241. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22761736More information can be found in our terms of use.