A History of New Zealand Women

A DigitalNZ Story by Bridget Williams Books

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Hinetitama by Robyn Kahukiwa

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Kaitaka (cloak)

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Jane Maria Richmond, drawn by James Crowe Richmond

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Mrs Eliza White

Auckland Libraries

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sampler

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

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Kaitaka huaki

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

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Te Tiriti ki Raukawa Moana | Cook Strait (Henry Williams) sheet

Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

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Studio portrait of Te Rangihaeata

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John Danforth Greenwood, painted by Sarah Greenwood

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Quilt

Puke Ariki

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Pipitea pā, 1842

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New Zealand Company plan of the Town of Wellington, Port Nicholson, 1840

Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

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A view of William Fox's Westoe estate, Rangitikei, by Edith Stanway Halcombe

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Embroidery

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Sewing kit

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Box of alphabet embroidery stencils

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Sewing set in case

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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From Mulgrave Street, Wellington

Alexander Turnbull Library

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Ball, Government House, 1864

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Group outside a cookhouse in Parihaka

Alexander Turnbull Library

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At Pungarehu, near Parihaka

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Brooch

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Kaitaka (with Angora goat hair elements)

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Emily Siedeberg.

University of Otago

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Maraea Morris

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[Staged portrait of female attendants, Avondale Lunatic Asylum]

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

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National Council of Women, Christchurch, 1896

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Meretene Panapa

Alexander Turnbull Library

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Marata Te Heuheu

Alexander Turnbull Library

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Airini Tonore (Airini Donnelly)

Alexander Turnbull Library

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Karioi Native School, 1908

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Suffrage procession in London

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[Nurse Bessie, Nurse Pierce and unidentified nurse riding bicycles]

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

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Nelson College for Girls

Alexander Turnbull Library

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Woman playing tennis

Alexander Turnbull Library

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[Tokaanu. Maori at Land Court meeting]

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

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Parnell - Queen Victoria College large group

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

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Māori gum diggers

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Mary Muller

Alexander Turnbull Library

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Katherine Mansfield

Alexander Turnbull Library

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Jessie Mackay

Alexander Turnbull Library

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Robin Hyde

Alexander Turnbull Library

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Typhoid camp at Maungapohatu

Alexander Turnbull Library

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[Tokaanu. Maori at Land Court meeting 1914]

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

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Outdoor babies, early 1900s

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Maori group cutting flax at Lake Ohia

Alexander Turnbull Library

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Three women trampers/walkers

Alexander Turnbull Library

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Cheongsam

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Jessie and Dora Wong, inscribed Wong She Poy, Passports

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Kahu kura (kākā feather cloak)

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Unemployed demonstration

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Jean Batten

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

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Potter Elizabeth Lissaman and her kiln

Alexander Turnbull Library

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Fish canning, North Auckland

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

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Doll

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Soup kitchen, Wellington

Alexander Turnbull Library

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Controversy

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Babies on a nursery trolley, 1944

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Mt Eden Dental Centre

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

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Lippes Loop intrauterine device (IUD)

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Pat and Gil Hanly

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Playing pool in the parliamentary Members' lounge

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Tivaevae tataura (applique and embroidered quilt)

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Untitled (Red masks)

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Muslim netball league, 2010

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