| THE MAORIS MAGNA CARTA Magnificent ceremony of Maoris - Governor General of New Zealand attended. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5515 |
| Catalog #: | 252449 | |
| Clip Number: | 252449-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 34/21 | |
| Timecode: | 01:43:34 - 01:45:17 | |
| Location: | Waitangi, New Zealand. | |
| Year Shot: | 1934 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CEREMONIES: Patriotic CULTURAL GROUPS: Maori ENTERTAINMENT/DANCE: Ethnic / Cultural INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Treaties & Pacts LOCATIONS/PACIFIC OCEAN: Oceania, New Zealand | |
| Description: | "New Zealand - THE MAORIS "MAGNA CARTA" - Lord Bledisloe - Governor-General - at 94th celebrations of signing of Treaty of Waitangi." New Zealand. Pan across the filed filled with people and tents. Maori men in traditional costume dancing. People watching. A great number of Maori women dancing. A large group of Maoris singing and dancing. Masses of all sorts of people standing, singing the National anthem. Governor General of New Zealand attended the ceremony, and he may be the one in uniform, though perhaps not. [The Treaty of Waitangi established the relationship between the Europeans and Maoris, a group of people divided into many tribes, who had preceded the Europeans in immegrating to the islands by about 1,000 years.] | |
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