Putting names to faces is exactly what Te papa and the Wellington Indian Association is hoping to do with a series of mystery portraits.
About 4000 photographic negatives were discovered in a cupboard at a former studio in the capital, in the 1990s.
They include 95 portraits of early Indian immigrants taken at the Cuba Photographic Studio in the 1930s and '40s, but they could just be the start.
Now the museum and the Wellington Indian Association have teamed up to try and to identify the people in the photos.
Lalita Kasanji from the Indian Association spoke to Lisa Owen.
Since RNZ's newly-launched Asia Unit first reported the story about these mystery portraits today, journalist Gaurav Sharma got a message from a man called Navtej Singh Randhawa, who's a National Party candidate from south Auckland.
He told Gaurav that one of the photographs featured in his article is in fact of his great granddad Inder Singh Randhawa.
