photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Oc,A38.2
- Description
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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)
- Dimensions
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Height: 13.90 centimetres (image)
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Height: 21 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 19.90 centimetres (image)
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Width: 28.60 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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A hongi (a traditional Maori greeting), where people press their noses together.
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This photograph is taken in Te Rauru meeting house by Thomas Pringle as in Oc,A39 as the setting is the same.
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This photograph is from an album of 19 images, containing images of Maori people.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,A38.2
