item details
NameIn Pawhatiairo Pah, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
ProductionSwan & Wrigglesworth; photography studio; 1865; Napier
Classificationcartes-de-visite, albumen prints, black-and-white prints, group portraits
Materialssilver, printing-out paper, albumen, mounting board
Materials Summaryblack and white photograph, carte-de-visite
Techniquesblack-and-white photography, photography
Dimensions60, 98
Registration NumberO.004284
Overview
Candid portrait of a small Maori group, presumably a family, seated on the ground in front of a thatched whare. They are all looking at the camera. The group consists of a young man wearing a hieke (rain cape), and four children, although the two girls at right could equally be young women. There is a fence behind the whare, and several carved stocakde posts just beyond the fence.