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Pioneer re-enactment

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Watch 1941 footage re-enacting the typical dress of pioneers and the type of terrain they lived in.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: One hundred crowded years. Government Film Studios, 1941.

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Bronwyn Labrum, Rural clothing – Womenswear, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/17485/pioneer-re-enactment (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Bronwyn Labrum, published 1 March 2009.