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Photographic Prints taken by Dr WD and Mrs MV Walker

Archive Collections / Dr William Delano Walker / Series AA357/02 / Photographic Prints taken by Dr WD and Mrs MV Walker

  1. thermal activity sites

  2. thermal activity sites

  3. thermal activity sites

  4. thermal activity sites

  5. cooking over hot mud. Annotated "Maori cooking bon. Sweet potatoes used to be cooked in flaxen baskets hung into pools of boiling water. Nowadays a billy is used and placed together with other receptacles in a wooden box and covered with a mat"

  6. Maori woman laundering. Annotated "a Maoris washing day. She needs no tubs no copper nor fires. The Maori woman takes her clothes to a warm spring near her house. The water is quite soft, all she needs is soap. If some clothes need boiling she puts them in a flax basket hangs them in a boiling pool, rinses them in another pool and the work is done"

Creator: Dr William Delano Walker
Control: AA 357/2/30/67 A-F
Date Range:  1929  -  1930
Quantity:  0.1cm,    
Formats: Loose Photographic Prints
Series:  AA357/02