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Biography: Harris, Witarina Te Miriarangi

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Websites

Friendship is the Harbour of Joy

Watch Peter Wells's short film about Witarina Harris's close friendship with film archivist and historian Jonathan Dennis.

Bibliography

Edwards, Sam and Helen Martin. New Zealand film 1912–1996. Dunedin, 1997

Grace, Patricia, Irihapeti Ramsden and Jonathan Dennis. The silent migration: Ngāti Pōneke Young Māori Club 1937–1948: stories of urban migration. Wellington, 2001

Kelly, Emma Jean. The adventures of Jonathan Dennis: bicultural film archiving in Aotearoa New Zealand. Bloomington, 2015

Pivac, D., F. Stark, and L. McDonald (eds). New Zealand film: an illustrated history in association with the Film Archive. Wellington, 2011

How to cite this page

Emma-Jean Kelly. 'Harris, Witarina Te Miriarangi', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2020. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/231033/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).