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Photograph, Mantlepiece at Kohi Kohi Cottage

Photograph, Mantlepiece at Kohi Kohi Cottage
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Photograph, Mantlepiece at Kohi Kohi Cottage
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Te Hikoi Museum
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Te Hikoi Museum
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This colour photograph shows the pre-restoration mantlepiece in Kohi Kohi Cottage, also known as Te Whare Kohi Kohi or sometimes as Howell's Cottage. Te Whare Kohi Kohi is thought to have been the first European-style house built in Riverton, New Zealand. It was built in 1837–38 and is thus one of very few New Zealand buildings constructed before the 1840s. It was built by the man widely considered to be the earliest permanent Pākehā settler of Riverton, Captain John Howell, for his wife Kohi...

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Date created
1980-1989
Creator
Unknown photographer
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https://ehive.com/collections/3278/objects/1481059
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Māori / Buildings and Structures

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