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[MUTTONBIRDING]

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Year
1921
Reference
F5437
Media type
Moving image

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Rights Information
Year
1921
Reference
F5437
Media type
Moving image

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Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Actuality
Duration
0:15:59
Taonga Māori Collection
Yes
Credits
Photography: Robert Massey

Shows the activities of James Morrison of Bluff and his family.
Robert Massey was photographer and he ran Massey’s Picture Theatre in Bluff

Women strip flax in preparation for the weaving of kete; cooking muttonbirds. The birds are hand caught from the bush and then plucked and gutted, salted and put into especially made bull kelp bags protected by totara bark and a woven basket. These are called pōhā. Men place the birds in the woven baskets which are then tied and hung. The birds are taken by dinghy to a larger ship waiting in the harbour, which then delivers them to the wharf at Bluff.

This item featured in the Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua co-production series with Māori Television.