IMAGE
Deep sea fishing. Mayor Island, New Zealand
- Date
- between 1923 and 1928
- Reference
- Pan-2413-F
- Description
Panoramic view looking across a wide beach on Mayor Island, sea on the left. Seven men in two groups are hauling two large swordfish and a shark up the beach towards a form of scaffold with markers for measuring the length of the fish and with ropes hanging from a cross-beam. Small fishing hut centre left in front of a line of pohutukawa trees which edge the beach right across the image. Taken by Robert Percy Moore.
Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Deep Sea Fishing. Mayor Island. New Zealand. No. 829; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Deep Sea Fishing. Mayor Island
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 103.0 cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Panoramic negative 24.7 x 103.0 cm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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