IMAGE
Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.) :The Maori system of barter. With the compliments of Post Office Savings Bank. 1962 [Calendar]. Printed by C.M. Banks Ltd [1961]
- Date
- 1961 - 1962
- By
- Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.); C M Banks Ltd; Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964
- Reference
- Eph-D-MAORI-1962-01
- Description
A single sheet calendar shows a picture by E Mervyn Taylor, of a group of Maori in traditional dress, conducting a bartering arrangement. The attached text sheet discusses pre-European times, ceremonial feasts, trival possessions, food, spare time pursuits, canoe builders, tattooing, property ownership, tohungas, exchange, the coming of the white man, tattooed heads, trade for muskets and land, British coinage. The text sheet also has small illustrations by E Mervyn Taylor.
Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Screen print, on sheet with attached calendar, 570 x 335 mm, and black and white sheet of text overlaid, attached at top by metal bar and hanging loop.
Provenance: Donated by Brian de Joux, Wellington, in 2011.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera, Photolithographs, Calendars, Screen print, on sheet with attached calendar, 570 x 335 mm, and black and white sheet of text overlaid, attached at top by metal bar and hanging loop., Orientation: Vertical image
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