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Kōrero: Seafarers

Dressing up

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Dressing up

There was plenty of entertainment on board, including dancing, singing, boxing and gambling, as well as practical jokes and general skylarking. These apprentices on the barque County of Pembroke are dressed up in kimonos (and incongruously smoking cigarettes).

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Neill Atkinson, Seafarers – Crew culture, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/5379/dressing-up (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Neill Atkinson, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.