IMAGE
Powles family photographs from Samoa
- Date
- [ca 1949-1960]
- Reference
- PAColl-9769
- Description
Contains photographs relating to Guy Powles' time as High Commissioner of Western Samoa. Includes: photographs of a ship preparing in Wellington Harbour in the late 1940s; photographs of coming ashore by longboat in Samoa; photographs of a welcome ceremony in Samoa; photographs of a large number of unidentified ceremonies in Samoa, including many people in costumes; photographs of chiefly Samoans, including paramount chief Tupua Tamasese Mea'ole; photographs of Samoan men and women in formal and everyday situations; portraits of Samoan children; photographs of Samoan buildings and villages; photographs of rivers, waterfalls and seascapes; photographs of official occasions and ceremonies relating to a visit to Samoa by the Governor General of New Zealand, Sir Willoughby Norrie; formal portraits of Guy and Eileen Powles.
May also contain Powles family photographs unrelated to their time in Samoa
Quantity: 215 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Photographic prints
- Access restrictions
- Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission
- Part of
- Powles family : Papers / Powles family :Photographs
- Format
- 215 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Portraits, Group portraits, Landscape photographs, Seascapes, Marines (Visual works), Photographic prints
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