From the King Country
Ngahui, active 1885
Long album 2
Date: [Between 1868 and 1898]
By: Long, W H (Mrs), active 1970; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Zangaki (Firm)
Reference: PA1-q-146
Description: Album of photographs, most taken by the Burton Brothers in New Zealand, including a large number of Maori images, group portraits, identified men and women, pa, and storehouses. Scenes also taken by them in Tonga and Samoa. A number of images show scenes in England, including a group taken near Egremont in Cumbria, of ice on the Mersey River in 1895. There are a large number of copies of paintings of romantic scenes. Several photographs of the Suez Canal, and the Nile River, were taken by Greek photographers `Zangaki' Brothers Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with reddish brown cover, brown corners and spine with single raised cords; fleur de lys pattern stamped between cords; 33.5 x 27.0 cm
Burton brothers album 16
Date: [Bween 1870 and 1885]
Reference: PA1-o-091
Description: Album of early New Zealand scenes, mainly taken by the Burton Brothers. Images include gold digging, gold dredging (image of Sew Hoy's dredge), and gold sluicing, one showing the flume on a Scandinavian race at St Bathans. There are a number of views of the Pink and White Terraces, scenes of Maori life in the King Country, and scenic views of Dunedin and the Queenstown-Lakes District. The album consists of about 71 pages, of which 25 are empty. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon covered album, 23 x 31 cm Provenance: Donated by Kings Cottage Museum, Australia, 1987
Muir and Moodie :Photograph of Ngahui and a child
Date: 1890s
By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)
Reference: PA7-19-04
Description: Ngahui with child on her back and a blanket covering both. She has a pipe in her mouth and is standing near a group of flax bushes. Photograph taken by Muir & Moodie, circa 1890s. Source of descriptive information - date estimated by cataloguer Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3796 - Ngahui - At Papakai, King Country. Muir & Moodie, Dunedin, N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print, 19.9 x 14 cm