"Moa Hunters." Boy Scouts on a tramp

"Moa Hunters." Boy Scouts on a tramp
Date
ca 1934
Reference
PA1-o-116-11
Description

"Moa Hunters." Boy Scouts on a tramp photographed by an unknown photographer about 1934.

Top left photograph (PA1-o-116-11-1). Group of Boy Scouts outside the entrance to a cave. On the bottom of the print is written "Maori burial cave", and on the album page below image, "Waitomo"

Top right photograph (PA1-o-116-11-3). Group of Boy Scouts sitting eating lunch around a camp fire. On the album page below the print is written "More Moas"

Centre photograph (PA1-o-116-11-2). Group of Boy Scouts foraging among clumps of rushes. On the bottom of the print is written "7 moas taken from this cave". On the album page below the print is written "6 miles from Otorohanga"

Bottom left photograph (PA1-o-116-11-4). Group of scouts with backs to camera, standing in bracken fern, looking up a valley. On bottom of print is written "A large number of moas here." On the album page below the print is written "Outskirts Honikiwi"

Bottom right photograph (PA1-o-116-11-5). Three Boy Scouts on horses. Beyond is a bush covered hill. On album page below print is written "Te Rau Mauku"

Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Part of
Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India / Craddock album 6
Format
5 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin prints
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