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Recording a Māori speaker, 1923

Recording a Māori speaker, 1923
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Recording a Māori speaker, 1923
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Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
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Ethnologists Elsdon Best (third from left), Johannes Andersen (left) and Hēnare Balneavis (second from left) record an unidentified Māori speaker at the Dominion Museum in 1923. The recording is being made on an Edison cylinder. The photographer was James McDonald, who also took photos and film footage of Māori during museum field expeditions. New technologies for recording sound and images greatly assisted anthropological studies.

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7 March 2014
Creator
James McDonald
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/44414/recording-a-maori-speaker-1923

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