Mair album

Album of scenic photographs, chiefly taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, with views of the North Island and South Island.

North Island scenes include a number of tourist views of Maori, showing carved meeting houses; a group performing a haka; two women demonstrating the hongi; a young woman wearing a feather cloak, hei tiki and huia feathers, and holding a mere; a group of young boys in a haka pose; a woman smoking a pipe; a group of children bathing in a hot pool at Ohinemutu; and Mr. Nelson's carved house at Whakarewarewa.

Other North Island scenes show Mount Taranaki, the Auckland wharves, Lake Waikaremoana, and a man fishing at the Ohau Channel, Rotorua.

South Island views cover Lakes Wakatipu, Manapouri and Te Anau; the Tasman Glacier; peaks in the Southern Alps; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; a team of four horses with a laden Cobb & Co coach on a ferry, crossing the Mangahua [i.e. Inangahua] River, the Lyell River Bridge and Hawks Crag, all in the Buller Gorge.

The last few images are exterior and interior views of the Dunedin Railway Station soon after it was finished in 1906.

Inscriptions: Album page - John T. Mair, Wellington, New Zealand

Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Physical Description: Album with textured black cover, entitled `Photographs' lettered in gold; 26.0 x 31.5 cm

Alternative form available: Copy negatives are available at 1/2-C-047813, and 1/2-C-008113