Ngāti Hokopū (Ngāti Awa)

Ngāti Hokopū o Ngāti Awa
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Stylised folk art carvings on a meeting house barge board and bargeboard support, Waira...

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: Turnbull Library Pictures: Original photographic prints and postcards from the File Prints Collection

Reference: PAColl-10563-174-02

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1930's showing a mixture of stylised folk art and traditional Maori carvings rendered on the bargeboard and bargeboard supports of a Whakatane meeting house. Of note is a mixed style carving of a mermaid-like Victorian lady. Inscription on print mount reads "NO NEG [negative]". Inscription on print verso reads "Meeting house near Whakatane". Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).