Kōrero: Intermarriage

Captain Flowers and companion

Captain Flowers and companion

Holding the telescope that symbolises his profession, Captain Flowers poses with an unidentified woman in this photograph, taken in Whanganui in 1878. The woman, who may be from the West Indies, accompanied Flowers to New Zealand. She is an example of the non-Māori intermarriage partners who arrived in New Zealand from this period.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, William James Harding Collection (PAColl-3042)
Reference: 1/4-005003-G
Photograph by William James Harding

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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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Angela Wanhalla, 'Intermarriage - Intermarriage in colonial society', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/30247/captain-flowers-and-companion (accessed 28 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Angela Wanhalla, i tāngia i te 5 May 2011