AUDIO
Interview with Dolly Anderson
- Date
- 16 Jun 1992
- By
- Anderson, Dolly Kiriwai, 1913-1995
- Reference
- OHInt-0064/17
- Description
Dolly Anderson was born in Te Maika, Kawhia on 14 December 1913. Describes her childhood, without formal schooling, her father, who drowned in 1928 and her four brothers and three sisters. Talks about Catholicism and hardly ever seeing Pakeha. Recalls food and fuel gathering and how she got to dances at Kawhia by horse and boat.
Describes doing housework and working in a shop selling food. Recalls living and working in Hamilton, Rotorua and Kawerau. Talks about getting married, her children, the death of her husband and how she coped as a widow. Describes ensuring her children were educated. Comments on Maori-Pakeha relationships. Discusses World War II and her objection to Maori men fighting but also the support she gave when they departed. Talks about some of the war deaths and tangi held for soldiers. Recalls attending tangihanga at Ngaruawahia and her family's involvement in the coronation of the Maori King. Gives the Maori King whakapapa. Discusses aspects of the Ratana movement.
Talks about working in a cookhouse and running a laundry service, health, childbirth, Maori medicine and Maori attitudes to doctors and hospitals. Describes being wahine karanga for Tokanga Nuia Noho Marae.
Venue - Te Kuiti : 1992
Interviewer(s) - Queenie Rikihana-Hyland
Venue - Te Kuiti
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004783; OHC-004784; OHC-004785
Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration.
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 856.
Photograph of dolly Anderson in June 1992
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- Part of
- Women in World War II Part II
- Format
- 3 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 3 Hours Duration, Oral histories, Illustration: Photograph of dolly Anderson in June 1992, Equipment used: Marantz cassette recorder
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Interview with Dolly Anderson, printed abstract
From: Women in World War II Part II
Reference: OHA-0856
Description: Interviewer(s) - Queenie Rikihana Hyland Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 856.
Interview with Dolly Anderson, tape two
Date: 16 Jun 1992
From: Women in World War II Part II
Reference: OHC-004784
Description: Interviewer(s) - Queenie Rikihana Hyland Arrangement: Tape sequence - 2 of 3 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Dolly Anderson, tape one
Date: 16 Jun 1992
From: Women in World War II Part II
Reference: OHC-004783
Description: Interviewer(s) - Queenie Rikihana Hyland Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 3 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Dolly Anderson, tape three
Date: 16 Jun 1992
From: Women in World War II Part II
Reference: OHC-004785
Description: Interviewer(s) - Queenie Rikihana Hyland Arrangement: Tape sequence - 3 of 3 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).