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Interview with Harata Solomon

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Date

12 Aug 1988

By

Solomon, Harata Ria Te Uira, 1925-1993

Reference

OHInt-0048/09

Description

Harata Solomon was born 22 January 1925 in Otaki, one of eleven children, and was brought up in Waikanae. Discusses her name and whakapapa on both parent's sides. Discusses her paternal grandfather, Kaka Kura Wi Parata, a chief of Ngati Te Kowhai, Ngati Toa and Te Atiawa and his wife who was of Ngati Raukawa descent. Talks about arranged marriages, communal living and sharing in Maori society. Discusses Waikanae, living off the land and traditional diet. Talks about her memories of her mother and being looked after by her maternal grandmother after her mother's death.

Discusses her father and his involvement with the Ratana religion and her family marae, Whakarongotai, in Waikanae. Talks of her cultural identity, modernity and assimilating into Pakeha culture in the 1930s and 1940s. Recalls her childhood pastimes, memories of the Depression and the number of people the family had staying. Discusses her grandmother's death, the division of labour in Maori society, her bicultural life and Maoritanga. Talks about her education at Waikanae, Hukarere Boarding School and Wellington Teachers' Training College. Talks about Ratana and Mormon teachings and lack of sexual instruction. Discusses her own faith as a member of the the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints and a Mormon. Recalls the Waikanae community and poi, haka, taiaha and mere activities. Discusses women clearing tapu on the marae and her aunts and their passing down of knowlege and the place of Maori women. Talks about her commitment to teaching, the impact of World War II on her whanau, her marriage after the war and her husband and children.

Venue - Wellington : 1988

Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe

Venue - Sound Centre, National Library, Wellington

Arrangement: Tape sequence - OHC-4150-4151

Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 2 Hours Duration.

Finding Aids: Transcript(s) available OHA-1637 and OHDL-000576.

Additional description

Alternative form available: Once permission is given a digital copy of the recording is available in the Library's Reading Room. Listening copies are available at LC-3217 to LC-3218

Use/Reproduction

Public use requires the written permission of the donor Copyright: Judith Fyfe

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Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission - Access requires written permission of the donor If the donor is unavailable the written permission of the Chief Librarian is required

Part of

The Matriarchs Oral History Project

Format

2 C60 cassette(s), 1 transcript(s), 1 Electronic document(s), 2 Hours Duration, Oral histories, Electronic records (Digital records), Electronic documents

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