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Dairy Farm

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Description: This photograph was part of the accumulation making up the Pohangina Collection. There was no information accompanying it so the image may not even be of the Pohangina area. The photograph is almost certainly one of a family farm rather than a temporary bush dwelling. Five people can bee seen - a bearded man to the far right, a younger child to his left standing between two cattle, a woman standing close to the cottage and a young man and woman centre left. The young man sits astride a cow with his arms folded, the woman beside him has her hands on her hips. It is tempting to see these gestures as proprietorial - we've felled the trees, sowed grass seed, brought in the cattle and mean to stay. The dwelling - shown more clearly in POH:40 - has net curtains at the windows, unlikely if this were a 'bush shanty.' Simon Johnson (2013)