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Hei Tiki (1935) film stills (AMS 227)

Date1935Reference NumberAMS 227Collection SummaryA selection of stills taken during the 1935 filming of Hei TikiDescriptionThe 1935 film "Hei Tiki; A Saga of the Maoris", was released in the U.K. as "Primitive Passions". Directed by controversial figure Alexander Markey it was considered one of the first "with sound" films produced in New Zealand. The film used Māori people and culture to tell a western story.

The stills are actually frames from film reel. They were decades after the filming, posted by a former cameraman to Margaret Goulding, who had worked as a cook on the film set.

See also "Adventures in Māoriland - Alexander Markey and the Making of Hei Tiki" at: https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/adventures-in-maoriland-1985

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Hei Tiki Film - Wharenui 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Wharenui 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Children actors 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Children actors 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Māori boy performing pukana 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Māori boy performing pukana 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Ben Biddle "Manui" 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Ben Biddle "Manui" 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Ngawara Kereti "Mara" 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Ngawara Kereti "Mara" 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Chief "Te Rangi" and others 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Chief "Te Rangi" and others 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Alexander Mackay 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Alexander Mackay 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Ngawara Kereti "Mara" 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Ngawara Kereti "Mara" 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Māori woman 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Māori woman 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Māori woman and child 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Māori woman and child 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Character chief "Te Rangi" 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Character chief "Te Rangi" 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Ngawara Kereti and another actor 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Ngawara Kereti and another actor 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Ngawara Kereti "Mara" 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Ngawara Kereti "Mara" 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Five frames of Ngawara Kereti "Mara" 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Five frames of Ngawara Kereti "Mara" 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Waka Taua 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Waka Taua 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Six frames of Waka Taua 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Six frames of Waka Taua 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Ngawara Kereti "Mara" 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Ngawara Kereti "Mara" 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Actor's in Pā 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Actor's in Pā 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Ngawara Kereti "Mara" 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Ngawara Kereti "Mara" 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Māori woman in wharenui 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Māori woman in wharenui 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Māori woman holding film screen 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Māori woman holding film screen 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Māori man wearing korowai in front of Wharenui 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Māori man wearing korowai in front of Wharenui 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Wharenui and Māori Woman 1930

Hei Tiki Film - Wharenui and Māori Woman 1930

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Alexander Markey works with an actor during the filming of Hei Tiki

Alexander Markey works with an actor during the filming of Hei Tiki

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