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Kōrero: Anthropology and archaeology

Janet Davidson in Samoa, mid-1960s

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Janet Davidson in Samoa, mid-1960s

Archaeologist Janet Davidson (centre) is photographed before attending church during one of her field-work expeditions in Western Samoa in 1964 and 1965–66. She also worked in Moorea, in the Society Islands, and at Nukuoro, in Micronesia. Davidson went on to a distinguished career as an archaeologist at Auckland Museum, the University of Otago and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington.

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The University of Auckland Libraries and Learning Services, Anthropology Photographic Archive

Reference: 433009

Permission of the Library, University of Auckland, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Peter Clayworth, Anthropology and archaeology – Expanding worlds, 1960s to 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/44422/janet-davidson-in-samoa-mid-1960s (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Peter Clayworth, i tāngia i te 7 March 2014.