The Māori Home Front

Unidentified woman working in a munitions factory in Hamilton, 1944. Alexander Turnbull Library, ref: 1/4-000862-F

Māori Carpenters trained at Rotorua, Auckland Weekly News, 6 September 1944. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collection, ref: AWNS-19440906-26-4.

Welcoming the 28th Māori Battalion, Rotorua, 1946. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections, ref: 1370-M008-4

Trench Digger. Artwork by Jordan Quinnell (2020).

Regatta at Ngāruawāhia, 1941. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections, ref: 1370-M005-15

Four women in paddock holding piles of sheared wool. Auckland Museum Collection, ref: PH-2013-7-TC-B667-07

Māori member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force playing the guitar during a musical hour. New Zealand Air Force Museum, Christchurch, ref: R128a

Angela Wanhalla and Lachy Paterson. Photograph by Graham Warman