Photographs of the Cook Islands and the Tuke Family

Date
ca 1860-1929
Reference
PAColl-8066-03
Description

Photographs of the Cook Islands ca 1900-1914; two caricatures of Duncan McNeill Lord Colonsay; unidentified rural landscapes; Tuke family photographs; a group of photographs mostly showing people at leasure, but including images of tobacco crops on a farm near Motueka; a Maori group which includes Tutakangahau, the Urewera chief who was one of Elsdon Best's main informers in his research; 7 photographs relating to the Gudgeon and Northcroft families; one group photograph of guards on Somes Island in 1916; one photograph of the Waikato leader Wiremu Tamihana and his children.

Quantity: 81 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 :Photographs
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81 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs
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Cook Islanders and woven mat, Ngatangiia, Rarotonga, Cook Islands - Photograph taken by...

Date: [190-?]

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 :Photographs

By: Crummer, George R, 1868-1953

Reference: PAColl-8066-03-08-2

Description: Cook Islanders with a completed woven mat, Ngatangiia, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, circa 190-s. Photograph taken by George R Crummer. Source of descriptive information - Location from inscription on back of print. Date estimated by cataloguer. Inscriptions: Verso - stamped in ink: Geo R Crummer Aitutaki Cook Is; Verso - in pencil: Mat making Ngatangiia after a large mat was finished Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10.1 x 14.6 cm

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Cook Islanders at Aitutaki Island, Cook Islands

Date: 1906

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8066-03-01

Description: Cook Islanders at Aitutaki Island, Cook Islands , circa 190-s. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Location and date from inscription on back of print. Inscriptions: Verso - Aitutaki 1906 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10.8 x 15.1 cm (approximate measurements as unevenly trimmed)