IMAGE
Shaw Savill & Albion Line... New Zealand direct via Panama Canal. [Calendar. 1930s?].
- Date
- 1930 - 1939
- By
- Harris, John, active 1930s
- Reference
- Eph-C-SHIP-1930s-01
- Description
Shows Maori chief Mita Taupopoki in cloak and ornate costume and headdress, with taiata and tiki, standing in front of palisades, carved post, and whare, with snowy peak in distance. At bottom are vignettes of Rotorua's steaming geysers, and of steamship.
Identity of the subject confirmed by the February page of a 1933 calendar featuring a colourised photograph of the chief from the NZ Tourist Department.
Other Titles - The chief
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Liverpool agents: White Star Line, 30 James St., Liverpool. Glasgow agents: P. Henderson & Co., 95 Bothwell St., Glasgow C.2.; Recto - bottom right - John Harris
Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Photolithograph, 456 x 303 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera, Photolithographs, Portraits, Advertisements, Calendars, Photolithograph, 456 x 303 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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