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RCS/Y308A contains:
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118 The Gladstone Hotel-Lane Cove River (Headquarters Xmas 1888)
119 Scenes on Xmas Day, 1899
120 Scenes on Xmas Day 1888
121 Views of Brisbane
122 Brisbane from Kangaroo Point
123 Railway Bridge over River Hawkesbury, Queensland [sic]
124 Hobart from the Bay
125 River Cora-Linn
126
127 Bay of Islands
128 Auckland from Mt Edin
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Trip to Australia and New Zealand 1888-1889

Title Interior of Meeting House and Priest
Reference Y308A/133
Creator Burton Brothers
Covering Dates 1888–1889 (The date is approximate.)
Extent and Medium Fair condition, some overall fading.
Content and context

201 x 151 mm. A view showing the priest, or 'Tohunga' (a word basically meaning an expert, of which there are several classes), standing in front of the decorated inner wall of the meeting house. The rafters are painted in a typical Maori motif (probably in red, black and white), while the walls are constructed of lattice 'tukutuku' panels forming a geometric decoration.

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Oceania
New Zealand
Burton Brothers
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