IMAGE
Te Kaha, tangi - people paying their respects and funeral service
- Date
- 1963
- Reference
- AWM-0726-F
- Description
Scenes from a tangihanga at a Te Kaha marae, taken in December 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified.
Images show scenes of mourners paying their respects to the deceased, whose adorned coffin lays on the floor of the mahau (the porch area of the whare nui, or meeting house). Also show scenes of a priest conducting the funeral service. Also includes two frames of children sitting on a memorial.
Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets.
Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.
Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film
- Use/Reproduction
- All requests for copies, use and reproduction, must be sent to Ans Westra's agent Suite Tirohanga at westra@suite.co.nz and 04 976 7663. Copyright: Copyright held by Ans Westra
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs / Westra, Ans, 1936-: Photographs
- Format
- 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images, Negatives, Cellulose acetate roll film
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Te Kaha, tangi - people paying their respects and funeral service. Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs. Ref: AWM-0726-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/36390016More information can be found in our terms of use.