12 days of Christmas
A DigitalNZ Story by mo-mo
On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me - 12 drummers drumming, 11 pipers piping, 10 lords a-leaping, 9 ladies dancing, 8 maids a-milking, 7 swans a-swimming, 6 geese a-laying, 5 gold rings... 4 calling birds, 3 french hens, 2 turtledoves, And a partridge AND a pear tree.
drummers, pipers, lords, ladies, maids, swans, geese, gold rings, birds, hens, turtle-doves, partridge, christmas carols, lyrics, songs, Christmas
Beatle Ringo Starr on stage during Wellington concert
Alexander Turnbull Library
Air cadet drummers on parade
Auckland Libraries
The drummer
Kete Horowhenua
A CUTE KETTLE-DRUMMER (Lyttelton Marinei Band). (NZ Truth, 29 October 1910)
National Library of New Zealand
Lauri Paddi and Jeffrey Madden
Alexander Turnbull Library
Piper with Mermaids
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :[Gareth Morgan as the Pied Piper]. 29 March 2012
Alexander Turnbull Library
Pipers of a Southern Battalion Pipe band, Maadi
Alexander Turnbull Library
First woman piper in the New Zealand Police Pipe Band
Alexander Turnbull Library
Unidentified Scottish piper, in full national costume
Alexander Turnbull Library
Two Pipers [P1-299-1578]
Upper Hutt City Library
Lord Plunket
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Lord Northland
Alexander Turnbull Library
Lord Kilbracken, John Godley
Alexander Turnbull Library
Lord Jellicoe
Alexander Turnbull Library
Missie Lord
Auckland Libraries
Lord Onslow
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Field Marshall Lord Roberts
Auckland Libraries
Lord Liverpool
Auckland Libraries
Lord Swansea, a rifleman
Alexander Turnbull Library
The dancer
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
The Dancer
Auckland Libraries
Two dancers from the Bodenweiser dance ensemble
Alexander Turnbull Library
A Limbs dancer performing a great leap - Photograph taken by John Nicholson
Alexander Turnbull Library
The dancer
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
A can of Mountain Maid Milk
Alexander Turnbull Library
Woman milking a house cow, probably Taranaki region
Alexander Turnbull Library
[Hodgkins, Frances Mary] 1869-1947 :[Woman milking a cow. ca 1890]
Alexander Turnbull Library
wartime dairy farming — A Maori girl ready to start milking. Dairying was the main source of food exports to Britain
Victoria University of Wellington
Girl delivering milk
Alexander Turnbull Library
Woman milking a cow at Birkdale, near Auckland, 1910
Alexander Turnbull Library
Grace of the swan
Auckland Libraries
Dances with swans V
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Chef J Mulvay with Swan meringe for Premier dinner
Alexander Turnbull Library
Swan vase
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
The "Goose Girl" : a young bather tests out her new inflatable at a local Christchurch beach.
Christchurch City Libraries
"Don't be so paranoid, this government is all about protecting jobs!" 26 February 2009.
Alexander Turnbull Library
Angie and Goose
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Ring
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Ring
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Ring
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Finger ring
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Wedding Ring
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
THE BELL-BIRD'S CALL (Evening Post, 11 August 1928)
National Library of New Zealand
Hen
Alexander Turnbull Library
The Doves
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
'Partridge'
Howick Historical Village
