IMAGE
Memorial to the Arawa Canoe, Maketu - Photograph taken by Mr W Walker
- Date
- Dec 1948
- By
- Walker, W (Mr), active 1940s-1950s
- Reference
- 1/2-018975-F
- Description
View of children playing around the memorial that marks the final landing place of the Te Arawa canoe at Maketu in the Bay of Plenty, showing the bay and Kawhia Pa in the background. Photograph taken in December 1948 by Mr W Walker for the National Publicity Studios.
Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - bottom right - A10600
This monument was built for New Zealand's 1940 centennial celebrations of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. It marks the landing point of the Te Arawa canoe after its journey from Hawaiki. (Source: Te Ara, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, www.teara.govt.nz).
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Film negative
Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.
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- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Tourist and Publicity
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Film negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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