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Story: Beach culture

Family outing, 1910

Family outing, 1910

Some Māori have long seen the beach as a place of recreation. Here, Willy Nepe and family, of the Ngāti Kahungunu tribe, from Waipawa enjoy a day on the Wairarapa coast.

About this item

Alexander Turnbull Library, Steffano Webb Collection (PAColl-3061)
Reference: 1/2-049687; G
Photograph by Steffano Francis Webb

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Jock Phillips. 'Beach culture', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 2-Mar-09
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/beach-culture/3/1