Women, Māori - New Zealand - Auckland Region

Date: [ca May 1909]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001497-G

Description: Two unidentified young Maori women wearing tag cloaks (korowai) and holding taiaha, standing in front of the carved meeting house, Whatu o Tamainupo at Marae-o-Hine, Riverhead. Several Maori artifacts are displayed on a flax mat in front of the women. Photograph taken by William A Price ca May 1909. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Carved house at Marae-o-Hine. Riverhead. 1811 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2304

Description: Most images show a man with beaded dreadlocks who is sitting with a young woman wearing a peaked cap and a young girl on a ledge outside a shop (frames 1 to 4); the man and woman are together (frames 5 to 10), and a young boy has joined them (frame 6). A small girl is leaning against a shop front (frame 10), and two young boys are seen (frames 11 & 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2305

Description: All images taken on a footpath outside shops, in Queen Street, Auckland. A young Māori man wearing a beret is seen outside a hairdresser's salon with a picture of a flaming devil on the window behind him (frames 3 to 9); a young Māori woman is standibng outside an optometrist (frame 11); and three women are sitting on boxes which hold free property advertising, and "[the "Inner City News], (frame 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2309

Description: All images probably taken in Wellesley Street across the road from the Bledisloe State Building. Frame one is looking across a road with the Civic Trading Post, and the Fun City Amusement Centre on the far side; a Māori family, couple with a small child, is seen sitting outside at a cafe[?] (frames 2 to 6); a young Māori man in the same area (frames 7 to 10); and then two views of John B. Turner having his beard trimmed (by his second wife Mala Mayo), possibly in the Auckland region. 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2306

Description: All images taken outside shops, in Queen Street, Auckland. A Māori woman is smoking a cigarette with a number of shops behind her (frame 1); outside a shop with the logo "Jeans&Tops", three Māori women (an older woman in the middle with two younger women) are perched on large boxes which hold free property advertising, and "The Inner City News", (frames 2 to 12). The young woman on the right has tattoos on her arm. 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2128

Description: Scenes at the Avondale Racecourse at the New Zealand Polynesian Festival, in February 1981. All views were taken on the grandstand of the racecourse. Ans Westra focusses on two young women sitting together (frames 2 to 9), and two others (frames 10 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2132

Description: Scenes at the Avondale Racecourse at the New Zealand Polynesian Festival, in February 1981. All images are views of individuals and groups of men, women and children at the foot of the grandstand, and sitting in the grandstand watching events. They include head and shoulder views of a woman (frames 4 & 5) wearing a checked shirt over a woven pari (bodice); and a man (frames 6 & 7) wearing a painted moko (symbolising the traditional tattoo). A number of people are standing at the foot of the grandstand, including a group of young women (frames 8 & 11), and three men (frames 9 & 10); A man is carrying his small daughter on his shoulders (frame 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2123

Description: Scenes at the Avondale Racecourse at the New Zealand Polynesian Festival, in February 1981. Images taken at a large building attached to the racecourse. In frames 1 and 11, young women are seen with signs advertising hangi tickets ($3.00), and in frame one two men are on a bench seat nearby under a sign reading "To dress room 3 & 4". This has been placed over a sign which is partially visible reading "Totalisator & cafeteria. Top floor, Ladies & escorts bar; Ladies powder room; and Totalisator". Three small boys are sitting on the grass having a picnic (frame 3); four young men are sitting at a long table outside with large packets of white sandwich bread beside them (frame 4); two of the young men are at the table waiting for food, one holding a steel knife sharpener and the other holding a large carving knife and a fork (frames 5 to 10); and several young men are seen walking across a lawn at the back of the grandstand (frame 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2135

Description: Scenes at the Avondale Racecourse at the New Zealand Polynesian Festival, in February 1981. All images are views of individuals and groups of men, women and children at the foot of the grandstand, or sitting in the grandstand, watching events. They include a view of a man holding a camera with a large lens, and a woman beside him watching events (frame 2); a man holding his toddler and then passing the child to its mother (frames 3, 4 and 8); two women embracing (frame 5); a young man standing in a doorway wearing a cowhide jerkin (frames 9 & 10); and a group standing at the foot of the grandstand (frames 11 & 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2133

Description: Scenes at the Avondale Racecourse at the New Zealand Polynesian Festival, in February 1981. All images are views of individuals and groups of men, women and children at the foot of the grandstand, or sitting in the grandstand, watching events. They include several views of a woman with her young son (frames 1 and 3 to 10); an older man sitting in front of a number of women (frame 11); and a woman with her arms around her small son who is wrapped in a rug (frame 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2124

Description: Scenes at the Avondale Racecourse at the New Zealand Polynesian Festival, in February 1981. Many images taken outside a large building attached to a racecourse with frames 1 to 5 showing men and women emerging from a doorway labelled "Cafeteria". A man wearing a broad straw hat with a feather in the band, and a large greenstone hei tiki (neck ornament) with people in the grandstand in the background (frame 6); a woman wearing a korowai (cloak), a bone hei tiki and feathered ear-rings, with a racecourse visible in the background (frames 7 to 10); another woman is also wearing cloak and feathered ear-rings (frames 10 & 11); and a large crowd on seats in the grandstand with a camera on tripod in the centre of the image and a policeman looking up at the crowd, and, in the foreground, a woman sitting on a rug beside a camera, some books and a record player[?] (frame 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2136

Description: Scenes at the Avondale Racecourse at the New Zealand Polynesian Festival, in February 1981. All images are views of individuals and groups of men, women and children at the foot of the grandstand, or sitting in the grandstand, watching events. They include a view of a man holding his toddler (frame 1); a group standing in front of the grandstand, applauding (frame 2); two older women sitting talking (frames 3 & 4); a young man wearing a mohawk hairstyle (frame 5); a woman holding her baby (frame 6); individual views of older women (frames 8, 9, 11 & 12); and two women marking a programme (frame 10). 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2140

Description: Scenes at the Avondale Racecourse at the New Zealand Polynesian Festival, in February 1981. In all views Ans Westra has focussed on individuals or small groups. Several young women are lying on the ground, laughing, in front of the grandstand (frames 1 to 4); other people are relaxing in the sun (frames 5 to 7); two men are shaaring a platter of kai (food), with the man on the right wearing a straw sunhat and a large hei tiki (frames 8 to 10); and women are seen in the grandstand (frames 11 & 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2126

Description: Scenes at the Avondale Racecourse at the New Zealand Polynesian Festival, in February 1981. Some views were taken beside the racecourse with men, women and children on bench seats or seated on the grass (frames 1 to 3); others taken on seats in the grandstand in front of a sign which reads "Judges only" (frames 4 to 10), of which images 6 & 7 show people eating slices of water melon; and two young men lying down relaxing on seats below the sign (frames 8 to 10). 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2134

Description: Scenes at the Avondale Racecourse at the New Zealand Polynesian Festival, in February 1981. All images are views of individuals and groups of men, women and children at the foot of the grandstand, or sitting in the grandstand, watching events. They include several views of a man sitting on a step of the grandstand wearing a pendant and painted moko (symbolising a traditional tattoo) (frames 1 to 3, and 5 to 7); and close-up views of a woman (frames 9 & 10), and two men talking (frames 11 & 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2302

Description: All images taken in a state housing area, in an unidentified location, possibly in Auckland. Two young Māori women, one of whom is carrying a kitten, are seen in front of a state housing block (frames 1 to 5); they are seen with two younger girls who are sitting on the pavement playing; two young women are seen using a telephone in a phone booth (frames 6, 7 & 11); two others have possibly been in a swimming pool (frames 8 to 10); and three young Māori are talking outside shops, with crs in the background (frame 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2303

Description: Most images taken inside a games arcade (frames 2 to 9). Frame 1 shows two young Māori women standing outside a number of shops, one of which sells gardening plants and equipment; two young Māori boys are playing on a slot machine (frames 2 to 8); then a man with beaded dreadlocks is sitting with a young woman wearing a peaked cap and a child on a ledge outside a shop (frames 10 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2139

Description: Scenes at the Avondale Racecourse at the New Zealand Polynesian Festival, in February 1981. In all views Ans Westra has focussed on individuals sitting in the grandstand, watching events. They all show people sharing platters of kai (food), with the main focus being on an older woman wearing a headscarf (frames 4 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

Date: 1981

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2145

Description: Scenes at the Avondale Racecourse at the New Zealand Polynesian Festival, in February 1981. Frames one and two show a group of young men standing below the grandstand, one of whom has a transistor beatbox under his arm; a number of people of different ages are joining in a waiata a ringa (action song) on a stage, with three small children in the foreground (frame 4). The next four frames (4 to 8) were taken looking up at crowds in the grandstand. They include two women wearing costumes for performance sitting on the ground in the foreground (frame 5), and a pākeha man holding a transistor in the right foreground (frame 8). Ans Westra has focused on a woman sitting in a group on a flat area with the grandstand in the background (frames 9 to 12). She is wearing a full costume with piupiu (flax skirt), pari (bodice), pari (headband), and a large bone hei tiki. 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