!["Ecatahuna" [Eketahuna], The Forty Mile Bush, NZ, c.1875, James Bragge](http://images.ourspace.tepapa.com/Image/Preview/2007/34/a0b695f66aff81d4722bca599d392c20.jpg)
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"Ecatahuna" [Eketahuna], The Forty Mile Bush, NZ, c.1875, James Bragge |
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| Description | Wellington photographer James Bragge took this photograph on one of his trips into the Wairarapa, 1876-1877. The founding settlers of Eketahuna immigrated to New Zealand from Scandinavia to clear the Seventy-Mile Bush, a daunting tract of dense forest, about forty miles wide and seventy miles long. Full title: ''"Ecatahuna" [Eketahuna], The Forty Mile Bush, NZ'. From the album: Views of New Zealand Scenery/Views of England, N. America, Haiwaii and NZ'. Black and white photograph, albumen silver print. |
| Created by | Te Papa |
| Region | Wairarapa |
| Licensed for ? | Map, Wall, |
| Postcard | No |
| Tags | black and white forest first encounters clear bare Eketahuna bush ngahere dry James Bragge 1875 Wairarapa settler |
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