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photographic print(black and white); album

Object Type: photographic print (black and white); album
Museum number: Oc,A38.2
Description: Photograph (black and white); from an album, containing images of Maori people; two women greeting one another by shaking hands and pressing noses (hongi); one woman standing, the other sitting; both wearing korowai (tag cloaks); with huia feathers in their hair; one woman holding a patu (club); in the background is a spear; two poupou (carved house panels); and tukutuku panels (of woven reeds); in the foregoround an unidentified feathered object; Whakarewarewa, New Zealand. Albumen print
Production date: 20thC(early)
Production place: Photographed in: Whakarewarewa
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 13.90 centimetres (image); Height: 21 centimetres (mount); Width: 19.90 centimetres (image); Width: 28.60 centimetres (mount)
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Curator's comments: A hongi (a traditional Maori greeting), where people press their noses together.; This photograph is taken in Te Rauru meeting house by Thomas Pringle as in Oc,A39 as the setting is the same.; This photograph is from an album of 19 images, containing images of Maori people.
Location: Not on display
Subjects: costume/clothing; personal accessory; arms/armour; architectural feature; textile
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Whakarewarewa
Associated ethnic name
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Oc,A38.2