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Canoeing on Awapuni Lagoon
- Description
The people in the dugout canoe are probably Mr and Mrs W L Luxford and their daughter, while the people on the bank are Septuagesima Shailer (wife of G W Shailer, photographer) and probably two of the Shailer children, of Palmerston North. Awapuni Lagoon was one of 5 original lagoons in Palmerston North when pakeha first settled. It was drained for settlement of the land.
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Date
- circa 1890
- Digitisation ID
- 2007N_Awa2_A-E_0297
- Held In
- Coolstore