IMAGE
New Zealand Polynesian Festival, 6-8 February 1981
- Date
- 1981
- Reference
- AW-2131
- Description
Scenes at the Avondale Racecourse at the New Zealand Polynesian Festival, in February 1981. All images are close-up views of men, women and children in the grandstand watching events. They include head and shoulder views (in frames 8 to 12) of a man and woman prepared for a performance wearing traditional costumes. He wears a painted moko (symbolising the traditional tattoo) and is wearing a long pendant (possibly pounamu (greenstone)), and the woman is wearing a woven tipare (headband), and woven pari (bodice), (frames 8 to 12) Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra.
Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet
Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.
Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film
- Use/Reproduction
- All requests for copies, use and reproduction, must be sent to Ans Westra's agent Suite Tirohanga at westra@suite.co.nz and 04 976 7663. Copyright: Copyright held by Ans Westra
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs / Westra, Ans, 1936-: Photographs
- Format
- 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images, Negatives, Cellulose acetate roll film
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