Held in Ngaruawahia, December 1963. Source: Te Ao Hou No. 46 (March 1964)
Māori Festival of the Arts (1963 : Ngāruawāhia, N.Z.)
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Proof sheets M602 - M701
Date: 1963
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: PAColl-10765-7
Description: Proof sheets depicting Māori, taken by Ans Westra in 1963. Images include: - Māori Women's Welfare League hui, Rotorua - Ngāruawāhia annual Coronation hui, Māori Festival of the Arts, and Eartha Kitt visit. - Arnold Wilson of Kawakawa - Second 'Washday' photographs Negatives associated with the proof sheets are digitsed and available at Series-6708-1 The proof sheets are housed in plastic sleeves, two per sleeve, back-to-back, with a paper sheet separating each pair. These are annotated by Ans Westra with additional information. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 100 b&w original photographic print(s) contact proof sheets containing 12 frames.
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Maori Festival of the Arts, Ngaruawahia
Date: December 1963
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0643-F
Description: Scenes at the first Maori Festival of the arts, held in Mahinarangi meeting house at Tūrangawaewae, Ngaruawahia. Photographs taken December 1963 by Ans Westra. Frames 1 and 2 show poet Hone Tuwhare. In the remaining images, spectators viewing Para Matchitt's paintings and sculptures which are visible in the background. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Film negatives
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First Ngaruawahia Festival of Arts, December 1963, inside Mahinarangi
Date: 1963
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0642-F
Description: Images show scenes at the first Festival of the Arts, held in Mahinarangi meeting house at Tūrangawaewae, Ngaruawahia. Photographs taken in December 1963 by Ans Westra. Frames 1 to 4 show Theo Schoon and Paratene Matchitt with Theo Schoon's decorated gourds. Frames 6 to 9 show Sister Dawn McNicol. Frames 10 and 11 show Hone Tuwhare reading his poems in the meeting house. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show crowds of visitors inside Mahinarangi and speakers addressing them. Some of the exhibits appear in the scenes. Outside a nun stands among children. 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 Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.