a few photographs of young Maori and Pakeha (New Zealand European) boys playing with toy guns, at the community of Hongoeka, photographs taken by Ans Westra in 1960.
a few photographs of young Maori and Pakeha (New Zealand European) boys playing with toy guns, at the community of Hongoeka, photographs taken by Ans Westra in 1960.
Young boys at Hongoeka Pa; driftwood. Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs. Ref: AWM-0105-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. [/records/23026779](https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23026779)
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“6 images of driftwood from Plimmerton Beach; 6 images of a group of young Pakeha and Maori boys playing with toy guns, at Hongoeka Pa. Photographs taken by Ans Westra in 1960.”
“Pa” means fortified village or fortress in Maori, but ivalso seen the word used for any kind of Maori communities. Maori are indigenous people of mainland New Zealand, Pakeha is the Maori word for European, the word used by both Maori, and Pakeha to refer to European New Zealanders.
this was taken in an interesting time for Maori, and general new Zealand, as in the 1960s and 70s, Maori went from mostly living in their own rural lands, to living in cities, a great urban migration. Before this time a majority of Maori lived in rural villages, with Pakeha mostly in urban areas, and there was very little interaction between Maori and Pakeha, with interactions only really happening in rural Pakeha settlements, which Maori occasionally visited. (except for those few tribes who had cities built on their lands, they were used to urban life and Pakeha)
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Young boys at Hongoeka Pa; driftwood. Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs. Ref: AWM-0105-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. [/records/23026779](https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23026779)
Description from source.
“6 images of driftwood from Plimmerton Beach; 6 images of a group of young Pakeha and Maori boys playing with toy guns, at Hongoeka Pa. Photographs taken by Ans Westra in 1960.”
“Pa” means fortified village or fortress in Maori, but ivalso seen the word used for any kind of Maori communities. Maori are indigenous people of mainland New Zealand, Pakeha is the Maori word for European, the word used by both Maori, and Pakeha to refer to European New Zealanders.
this was taken in an interesting time for Maori, and general new Zealand, as in the 1960s and 70s, Maori went from mostly living in their own rural lands, to living in cities, a great urban migration. Before this time a majority of Maori lived in rural villages, with Pakeha mostly in urban areas, and there was very little interaction between Maori and Pakeha, with interactions only really happening in rural Pakeha settlements, which Maori occasionally visited. (except for those few tribes who had cities built on their lands, they were used to urban life and Pakeha)