Photograph album relating mainly to Rotorua

An album containing prints relating to the Rotorua District and Maori tourism in particular. The images were taken by Leslie Hinge, ca 1900-1903, except for one image taken by Josiah Martin in 1890. Many of the images have short captions written by Hinge giving subjects and locations.

Images show various subjects, including:

- The whare whakairo (carved meeting house) Tokanganui-a-noho with a sign 'Ko Rawaho' for the ancestor Rawharo at Te Kuiti.

- Games of bowls being played on the green at the Government Gardens, Rotorua, showing the band rotunda in the background.

- Whare at Te Ngae pa, with Maori families sitting and standing outside, including a woman weaving baskets.

- Mud pools and steam vents at Tikitere (Hell's Gate) and Whakarewarewa. Also the Wairoa geyser hole at Whakarewarewa being "soaped", with tourists looking on, and subsequently spouting.

- The bush-lined Kaituna River and the Okere Falls, including a flume for a hydroelectric plant servicing Rotorua.

- A small motor launch pulled up on the shore of Lake Rotoiti, with tourists aboard and Maori captain.

- Scenes at Whakarewarewa village, including children penny diving from bridge and bathing in hot pools, kettles and kete (baskets) for cooking, and views of houses. Also images of the whare whakairo Rauru, one with Sophia Hinerangi and a man who may be Mita Taupopoki outside; and another with the caption "Sold to Berlin - 1904". Also portraits of Sophia and Bella Papakura.

- Scenes at Ohinemutu, including interior and exterior shots of the whare whakairo Tamatekapua, bust of Queen Victoria with St Faith's Church beyond, children bathing, and a woman named Merepaea Paea washing clothes.

- A waka taua (war canoe) being paddled on Lake Rotorua and shots of canoes being manoeuvred over obstacles in races.

- Broad views of Waimangu valley with steam rising from vents, Lake Rotomahana with Mt Tarawera beyond, and the inlet on Lake Tarawera below Te Wairoa. Mud from the 1886 Tarawera eruption is still visible.

- Hangi (earth oven) being prepared.

- Men performing a haka near Whakarewarewa (this image taken by Josiah Martin).

Three of the photographs are composites of two images, arranged one above the other.

Other - Two prints formerly loose in this album are now at PAColl-10392

Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, 20.5 x 26.5 cm