IMAGE
Two unidentified Maori women greeting each other with a hongi
- Date
- [ca 1909]
- Reference
- 1/2-001933-G
- Description
Two unidentified Maori women, greeting each other with a hongi. They are wearing tag cloaks (korowai), and are standing on a patterned woven flax mat (whariki) in front of an unidentified meeting house. Two mere are placed on the mat between them, with a taiaha in the foreground. Image taken circa 1909 by William Archer Price
Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Protd. W.A.P. 24.5.09. No. 1898
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Portraits, Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches, Orientation: Vertical image
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