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Kōrero: Beach culture

Family outing, 1910

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Family outing, 1910

Some Māori have long seen the beach as a place of recreation. Here, Willy Nepe and family, of the Ngāti Kahungunu tribe, from Waipawa enjoy a day on the Wairarapa coast.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Steffano Webb Collection (PAColl-3061)

Reference: 1/2-049687; G

by Steffano Francis Webb

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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jock Phillips, Beach culture – Beach recreation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/9109/family-outing-1910 (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.