Ruatoki 1963. From: Maori Portfolio
Two young boys riding a horse bareback on a gravel road. Three more children stand behind, one boy facing camera, two others turned away.

#NewZealand #fourth #Ruatoki #Maori #NewZealands #Māori #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Horses #Children #Dirtroads #photographicgelatin #silver #photographicpaper #mountingboard #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #groupportraits #Contemporary #horsebackriding #undefined

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Turangawaewae Marae, Ngaruawahia. From: Maori Portfolio
View of the front part of the wharenui at Turangawaewae Marae that is covered with harakeke mats. In the far corner at left of frame women and children sit around a coffin covered by a cloak. A young girl leans against a pole at right foreground.

#TurangawaewaeMarae #Ngaruawahia #Maori #AnsWestras #Māori #moe_tahurangi #Kōtuia #Buildings #Lyinginstate #Grief #women #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #silver #mountingboard #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #groupportraits #Contemporary #Ngāruawāhia #undefined

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Sharing a drink
View of two men - one is handing a bottle (wrapped in a brown paper bag) to the other.

#moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Alcoholicbeverages #Smoking #Coats #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #silver #mountingboard #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #groupportraits #Contemporary #NewZealand

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Te Kaha 1964
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http://api.digitalnz.org/records/274398/source

Te Hapua, 1969. From: Maori Portfolio
View of a kuia (elderly woman) carrying a young child piggyback. The woman wears a scarf over her head. Fields and a fence are visible in the background.

#TeHapua #Maori #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Women #Children #Infants #Lifting&carrying #Māori #photographicgelatin #silver #photographicpaper #mountingboard #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #groupportraits #Contemporary #TeHāpua

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Ruatoria, 1964. From: Maori Portfolio
A maori woman stands holding a small child in her arms, the child is kissing her on the lips. The womans hands are covered in flour.

#Ruatoria #Maori #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Mothers #Children #Kissing #Hugging #Māori #photographicgelatin #silver #photographicpaper #mountingboard #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #portraits #Contemporary

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Inia Te Wiata funeral, Otaki 1971. From the portfolio: Maori
This photograph was taken in 1971 by Ans Westra at the tangi (funeral) of Māori opera singer Inia Te Wiata. The tangi was held in the whare whakairo (carved meeting house) called Raukawa, which is located in the township of Ōtaki. Westra's black and white photograph depicts a group of people waiting in the cold wind, some of whom bend and bow in mourning.
Images of MāoriWestra began photographing people in 1961, and this became a lifelong vocation. Through the magazine Te Ao Hou (the new world) and its editor Margaret Orbell, Westra became deeply involved in photographing Māori, and these images were published in the magazine and then later collected in a book called 'Maori' (with James Ritchie). By the 1970s Westra had moved away from what was an almost exclusive interest in Māori people in the 1960s, but Inia Te Wiata Funeral, Ōtaki demonstrates that she remained engaged with the culture that had first caught her interest a decade earlier.
The grand tradition of documentary photographyWestra has remained in the humanist documentary tradition, little concerned with formal issues. She zeroes in - with warmth, sympathy, and respect - on content, on her subjects as people. She is a photographer of gesture: the way a person stands, the look on someone's face, how one person touches another. While the title of Inia Te Wiata Funeral, Ōtaki provides basic information about where and when the photograph was taken, Westra typically provides little factual information about what is going on and who the people are. Her photographs are intended to be more than a document of a specific event, and Inia Te Wiata Funeral, Ōtaki uses the tangi as an opportunity to create an enduring record of grief, mourning, and the variety of human emotions and responses in times of sadness.

#IniaTeWiata #Maori #AnsWestra #Māori #Ōtaki #Westra #MāoriWestra #TeAoHou #MargaretOrbell #Maori #JamesRitchie #IniaTeWiataFuneral #first #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Funeralprocessions #People #mourning #Crowds #Ōtaki(NewZealand) #RaukawaMarae #photographicgelatin #silver #photographicpaper #mountingboard #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #groupportraits #Contemporary

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Turangawaewae Marae, Ngaruawahia. From: Maori Portfolio
Close-up profile of two elderly maori women (kuia) exchanging a hongi. Woman on right has a moko on her chin and wears a chequered hat.

#TurangawaewaeMarae #Ngaruawahia #Maori #first #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Women #Tattoos #Māori #photographicgelatin #silver #photographicpaper #mountingboard #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #portraits #Contemporary #Salutations #Friendship #Ngāruawāhia

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Turangawaewae Marae, Ngaruawahia 1963. From: Maori Portfolio
View of five kaumatua (elders, two men at left and three women on right) sitting on a bench against a wooden fence. A young girl crouches on the ground in front, a second child sits in the lap of the woman second from the right.

#TurangawaewaeMarae #fivekaumatua #second #Maori #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Portraits #Fences #People #Māori #photographicgelatin #silver #photographicpaper #mountingboard #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #groupportraits #Contemporary #sitting #Ngāruawāhia

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Turangawaewae Marae, Ngaruawahia 1962. From: Maori Portfolio
Two maori children sitting on the grass area of a marae. The left side of a wharenui is visible in the background. Younger child sits at left looking toward left of frame, older girl on right faces right and sits with knees drawn up to her chest.

#TurangawaewaeMarae #Maori #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Sitting #children #Girls #Māori #photographicgelatin #silver #photographicpaper #mountingboard #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #portraits #Contemporary #sitting #Ngāruawāhia

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