negative(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,F.N.3900
- Description
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Negative (black and white); a Tūhoe chief, Tepairi Oterangi, in front of his carved whare (house); he wears a kahu huruhuru (feather cloak) and a piupiu (flax skirt), and holds a weapon, perhaps a tewhatewha (long handled club-weapon) in one hand as he recites a welcome chant; Waimana Valley, New Zealand.
Photographic Process
- Production date
- 1939
- Dimensions
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Height: 3.70 centimetres
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Width: 2.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Related images: this image is on a roll of film negatives of thirty nine images (Oc,F.N.3879 through 3917). The roll was in a cardboard canister labelled with the number "5 A3967 W Kissling"; which was in a wooden box bearing a label with the inscription: "MAORI NEGATIVES Property of Dr. Werner Kissling"
Oc,B127 and Oc,B128 are additionally part of this 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.
Image Oc,B127.26 is an image of the same scene and is associated with an index card typed by Werner Kissling, which reads:
"Pol. N.Z.
Urewera Welcome.
See 21
Tepairi was plainly enjoying the performance. Vigorous and rhythmical action and dancing, with arms in hand, in which the chief excelled, was exciting to watch and an effective exhibition as a welcome to strangers.
W. Kissling (1939)."
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,F.N.3900
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 22 (Film negative roll number)
