Sites and features at Titahi Bay, Whitireia Peninsula, and Porirua Harbour

Date
1933
Reference
PA1-f-009-54
Description

Photographs by George Leslie Adkin

Top left photograph (PA1-f-009-54-301) Carved wooden bowl showing details of carving. Photographed 5-3-1933.

Top centre photograph (PA1-f-009-54-302) Toa Rangatira, meeting house at the Takapuwahia kianga on the south west shore of Porirua Harbour. Photographed 12-3-1933.

Top left photograph (PA1-f-009-54-303) one of two old native ovens (umu or hangi) shown in section by the road cutting at Titahi Bay. Photographed 12-3-1933.

Centre photograph (PA1-f-009-54-304) Maori cultivation terraces on the hills near Mount Cooper. Photographed 12-3-1933.

Centre left photograph (PA1-f-009-54-305) Site of the former Kaitawa kianga at the south head of Porirua Harbour. Photographed 12-3-1933.

Bottom left photograph (PA1-f-009-54-306) Bay at northern end of Whitireia Peninsula, site of the former Onehunga kianga. Photographed 12-3-1933

Bottom right photograph (PA1-f-009-54-307) The church at Pahautanui, the site of Te Rangihaeata's pa in 1846. Prior to the 1855 earthquake the flats on the left were covered by sea water.

Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).

Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Part of
Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua / Adkin album 27
Format
7 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin prints
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