Victoria University students Barley Katit (left), Chanel Iroi (right) and Agnes Gapi perform Papua New Guinean and Solomon Islands love dances at a campus festival in 1994. Although many Pacific islands have only small communities in New Zealand, fresh annual intakes of students help keep the culture of small migrant groups alive. The local communities also serve as a network for young people finding themselves in a strange and somewhat chillier new land.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference:
EP-Ethnology-General, Ethnic groups in New Zealand-02
Photograph by Melanie Burford
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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11 o Hune 2012
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