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Maori gathering to scrape the bones of chiefs, Waiomio, Northland, New Zealand
- Date
- [ca 1870]
- Reference
- PA1-f-041-46
- Description
Maori gathering to scrape and paint the bones of chiefs, Waiomio, Northland, New Zealand. Photographed by Daniel Mundy in about 1870.
This process was the last rite in a Maori funeral. It took place a year or more after the first burial of a body.
Inscriptions: Album page - on back of album page - Native feast or bone scraping at the burial of the remains of several chiefs at Waiomio, Bay of Islands.
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Albumen print, 23.7 x 19 cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Mundy album 3
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Landscape photographs, Albumen print, 23.7 x 19 cm
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