photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B128.49
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); a Tūhoe man, Mika Te Tawhao, sitting outdoors demonstrating/playing whai (string figures); he is setting up te tutira o maui, an intricate pattern requiring two persons for its completion; a woman holds one end of the string; his daughter and three children look on; he wears a kahu kiwi (kiwi feather cloak), a cloth shirt, a woven belt and trousers; Whakatane, New Zealand.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1939
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.90 centimetres (image)
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Height: 10.20 millimetres (mount)
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Width: 12 centimetres (image)
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Width: 15.20 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
- Related images: Oc,B127 and Oc,B128 are one collection of images from New Zealand, by Werner Kissling taken in the late 1930's. Some of the same Kissling images can be found in the photographic collection of the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Images Oc,B128.36 through 53 all depict the same topic and people; some of these images are to be found in the Dumfries Museum & Camera Obscura collection and in the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology collection. Oc,F.N.3966 is the negative for this image.
Description: this image was accompanied by an index card typed by Werner Kissling, which reads:
"Pol. N.Z.
Maori String Figures.
See
Setting up TE TUTIRA O MAUI: an intricate pattern requiring two persons for its completion. It is of special interest as it represents the four MAUI brother of ancient tradition (in the mythology of the race) and may be considered a genuine Maori pattern.
W. Kissling (1939)."
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B128.49
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 99 (Kissling number)
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Miscellaneous number: F.N. 3966 (negative number)