Display at the Wanganui Museum to show traditional methods of Maori tree felling, [ca December 1957]
Reference Number: PAColl-6388-09
Display at the Wanganui Museum to show methods of traditional Maori tree felling, circa December, 1957. Photographer unidentified. The card in the foreground reads: "Ancient Maori methods of felling trees. Note: The old-time Maori must have spent much time in cutting down trees - a slow process when one considers the primitive tools he had to work with. Then the cutting off the head of the tree and lopping the branches was even a slower and more tedious job. Yet with these drawbacks the Maori succeeded in erecting strong palissades round his pa, in making handsome canoes, and in building fine houses."
New Zealand Free Lance original photographic prints, from the file print collection, Box 5, Reference Number PAColl-6388 (92 digitised items)
New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives, Reference Number PA-Group-00079 (849 digitised items)
Extent: 1 b&w original photographic print(s)Silver gelatin print 200 x 138 mm. Single photograph
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