Cake for King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV (cake represents church demolished to make way for new church, Grey Lynn)

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Cake for King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV (cake represents church demolished to make way for new church, Grey Lynn)

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Glenn Jowitt was covering the King of Tonga’s dedication of Vaine Mo‘onia, a new church in Auckland, when he got chatting to ‘a chap called Kalifi’. The man told him that his wife had made a beautiful cake for the church. Jowitt recalled: ‘So he and I jumped in the car and went over to his house. This was a to-scale model of the church that they were knocking down, made in fruitcake with marzipan icing! I was just so knocked out to find this thing. It was just so beautiful!’ Listen to photog...

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Image

Date created

1993

Creator

Glenn Jowitt

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/645246

Related subjects

Churches / Cakes / dye / photographic gelatin / resin-coated paper / colour photographs / silver-dye bleach prints / colour prints / works of art / colour photography / silver-dye bleach process / Contemporary / royalty / Religion / Auckland

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