IMAGE
Auckland Star album 1
- Date
- [Circa 1890-1910]
- By
- Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934
- Reference
- PA1-q-012
- Description
Album of photographs of the Rotorua area, including images of everyday life at a Maori pa. Maori whare, meeting houses, Maori men and women wearing various types of cloaks and holding mere or taiaha, poi dances and haka, the use of hot pools for cooking, and for washing clothes, scenes of children bathing in the hot pools, small Maori waka, and war canoes (waka taua). Taken by Auckland Star photographers around the turn of the century.
Relationship complexity - Most images are represented by original negatives donated to the Library by the Auckland Star in the 1950s
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Black cloth bound album, labelled "This book must be returned to Mr H Brett's room"
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs from the Auckland Star
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Black cloth bound album, labelled "This book must be returned to Mr H Brett's room"
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Copyright
UnknownMakereti in her whare Tukiterangi, Whakarewarewa
Date: [ca 1910]
From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs from the Auckland Star
Reference: PA1-q-012-39-2
Description: Shows her looking up. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, on album page
Makereti Papakura
Date: [ca 1910]
From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs from the Auckland Star
Reference: PA1-q-012-39-1
Description: Photograph of Makereti Papakura, probably taken in her whare at Whakarewarewa. She is seated at a writing table, wearing a kiwi feather cloak. The room is decorated with postcards, framed pictures, cloaks and piupiu, and items of Maori carving. Photograph taken ca 1905-1910 by William Henry Thomas Partington. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Maggie at writing table; Album page - beneath image - 3812 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned gelatin silver print 20 x 15 cm, mounted on album page