IMAGE
Women and baby at Waiwhetu Pa
- Date
- Between 1881 and 1886
- By
- Williams, William, 1858-1949
- Reference
- 1/1-025979-G
- Description
Two Maori women with baby sitting near campfire and cooking pots at Waiwhetu Pa, Hutt Valley, photographed between 1881 and 1889. Women and baby are dressed in European skirts and loose shirts, their hair is bound back. Surrounding them is a pile of firewood, a cart, a small hut and a long wooden fence draped with rugs and blankets. Center frame behind the women is a European man in a top hat posing beside the fence gate. Behind the fence is a line of Maori people standing in a field. Bare eastern hills of Hutt Valley loom in background.
Dated from the photographer's residence in Wellington and Napier 1881-1889.
The people of the Waiwhetu pa were the Te Matehou hapu of Te Ati Awa iwi
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Dry plate negatives, Stereographs, Dry plate glass negative
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