It's more than a hundred years since Cook Islanders posed in all their finery for an enterprising Irish trader-cum-photographer named George Robson Crummer.
Dozens of the negatives he made are stored in New Zealand's national museum Te Papa and a selection of his images has now gone on display in Wellington.
As Sally Round reports, they're part of an exhibition which mixes the past and the present.
Photographer Edith Amituanai with an image of a Cook Islands boy taken by George Robson Crummer at their exhibition Edith and George: in our sea of Islands. Photo: RNZ Pacific/ Sally Round
