This exhibition features 65 black and white reproductions from the Charlie Dawes Photographic Collection, including photographs of the 1898 Dog Tax Resistance which threatened to bring war to the Hokianga.

The new exhibition at Te Kōngahu Museum of Waitangi Exhibition Gallery opens to the public on 26 August.

Te Hokianga-nui-a-Kupe is the ancestral home of many northern hapu, including Ngāpuhi. By the 1830’s it was the heart of the New Zealand timber industry, with the small settlement of Kohukohu at its hub. Kohukohu no longer resembles the bustling township it once was but through the work of local photographer Charles Peet Dawes we can see for ourselves the people and communities of the Hokianga in the last decade of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, before fire, cars and intensive farming changed the landscape completely.

‍Charlie was a jack-of-all-trades who opened a photography studio in Kohukohu at the end of the 19^th century. This exhibition features 65 black and white reproductions from the Charlie Dawes Photographic Collection, including photographs of the 1898 Dog Tax Resistance which threatened to bring war to the Hokianga.

This exhibition is brought to Waitangi by Auckland Central City Library and Te ahu Museum Kaitaia.