Story: Rural mythologies
James McAllister’s photograph of a frontier family outside their slab hut in inland Taranaki, about 1898, illustrates the later-mythologised idea of pioneers carving out their farm from the bush.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: 1/2-065619; G
Photograph by James McAllister
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.
