Was photographed by George Leslie Adkin in 1925. Information given by Adkin with the photograph states that Mrs Kuiti was a member of the Ngati Tukorehe hapu of Ngati Raukawa living at Muhunoa kainga on the south-western shore of [Lake] Papaitonga. Library client states that Akdin's iwi/hapu listing is is wrong and that her iwi/hapu were Ngati Kikopiri and Ngati Pareraukawa of Ngati Raukawa.
Known as Kuihinga Kuiti by family members (Kikopiri); also known by the name Heeni Kuiti.
Date: 1925
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
By: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964
Reference: PA1-q-002-086
Description: Portrait of Mrs Kuiti photographed at Muhunoa kainga on the south-western shore of Lake Papaitonga, Horowhenua, by George Leslie Adkin in 1925 Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002. Source of descriptive information - Notes in album. Note that a Library client states that Adkin's information regarding Mrs Kuiti's iwi/hapu is wrong, and that the correct iwi/hapu are Ngati Kikopiri and Ngati Pareraukawa of Ngati Raukawa. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - 85 & 86. Youth and age: Members of the Ngati-Tukorehe hapu of Ngati-Raukawa living at Muhunoa kainga on the south-western shore of Papaitonga. Left Mai Tahaia; right: Mrs Kuiti. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Date: Early 1900s to 1931
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-002
Description: Maori place names and old historical sites of Horowhenua (Vol. 1, images 1-146). Album includes maps, diagrams & sketches, and black & white photographs. Views include Paremata Redoubt, Lake Horowhenua, carved pātaka at Papaitonga Pā. Views of Komokorau, the burial place of Mua-Upoko chiefs including Chief Mahuera Paki Tanguru-o-te-rangi; Lake Wai-tawa and Te Moutere (formerly a fortified island pā). Place names & historic features of Kapiti Island, including relics of whaling days at Wharekohu Bay showing ruins of stone house, stone walls and a stone-embanked stream channel, burial caves, Waiorua Valley showing the approximate site of Te Rauparaha's principal pā, and Motungārara Island where there was a subsidiary pā of Te Rauparaha. Ōtaki, Rangiātea Church (1925); carved whare at Puke-Karaka; Ōtaki Jubilee Pole; and old meeting house Uawhaki at Waikawa. The site of the old Māori flour-mill on the Waitarere Stream at Poroutawhao, which was built in 1853 or 1854 under the direction of a French priest. Several images of performers competing in the haka and poi competitions at Shannon, 2 January 1928. Images of Pākehā pioneers of Horowhenua (Hector McDonald and his wife Agnes (nee Carmont)), and a photograph of Rora Hakaraia, daughter of Mua-Upoko chief Tanguru, and sister of Te Rangihiwinui (also known as Taitoko, and later as Te Keepa or Major Kemp). The photograph of Rora Hakaraia was taken from a painting in the possession of Rod A. McDonald of Levin. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s).