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New Zealand Polynesian Festival, 6-8 February 1981
- Date
- 1981
- Reference
- AW-2144
- Description
Scenes at the Avondale Racecourse at the New Zealand Polynesian Festival, in February 1981. The first frames were taken looking up at spectators in the grandstand, focussing on a woman sitting beside a child wrapped in a blanket (frames 1 to 3); women in costume are performing on a stage, wearing costumes including piupiu (flax skirts), tipare (headbands) and pari (bodices), with poi attached to their waists (frames 4 to 6); several men and women and a child in mufti are singing and dancing (frame 7); other spectators are sitting in rows below the grandstand, including two women wearing tipare (woven headbands) in the front row (frames 8 to 11); and a man is sitting with his two children in his lap (frame 12). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra.
Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet
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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New Zealand Polynesian Festival, 6-8 February 1981. Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs. Ref: AW-2144. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/38423493More information can be found in our terms of use.