Packhorse outside a Whare

Description

This photograph was presumably taken in the Pohangina Valley, probably near Utuwai. The sack around the man’s waist is a flour sack, stamped with the words “Richter Nannestad, Pure Roller Flour, Manawatu, Palmerston North”. In the foreground can be seen a camp-oven, a billy and a cat. Note the construction of the Whare – slab walls and chimney, corrugated iron roof and sack door. This Whare is typical of the kind used by “Bush-whackers”, grass-cutters and other groups of seasonal labourers.

Identification

Object type

Image

Relation

Public Photograph Collection Gs 7

Date

circa 1900 to circa 1910

Digitisation id

2007N_GS7_RTL_0798

Held in

Coolstore