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Nambassa poster

Nambassa poster
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Nambassa poster
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Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Collection
Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Description

This poster advertises the Nambassa festival which was held at Golden Valley, near Waihī, in January 1978. This was one of four such festivals held in the Waihī area between 1977 and 1981. The festivals promoted music, crafts and alternative hippie lifestyles. There was widespread smoking of marijuana at the festivals and at the 1979 festival, which attracted over 65,000 people, there were 58 arrests for cannabis use on the first day. However, the organisers negotiated with the police and the...

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Date created
15 November 2012
Creator
Neil Wernham
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Wikipedia
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https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/39568/nambassa-poster

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