Mamma’s quite… handsome
She looks like Rikishi
Ugh jeez mom! Do we have to wear the feathers. 😒
Is it cold enough there to wear a full cloak like that??
I’m not sure, so I wiki’d it, and it looks like it even snows in parts of New Zealand.
We have like…mountains, and ski fields here you know. Even electricity!
I once used a cellphone
Hush, lest your idle boasts encourage them to attack us.
Shhh!!! I don’t have the body and enough tag lines to become a guerilla fighter.
Well…except maybe not so much electricity on cold mornings like today? :)
I was briefly mystified as to why it wouldn’t be obvious that a long narrow land mass at this latitude would get a bit cold, then I remembered none of you can see where we are!
I imagine Aussieland as hot, and I imagine New Zealand as near Aussieland. About the best I can do for the Hidden Island
Thank you, this perfectly summarizes where I went wrong
It’s funny timing because we’re in the middle of a cold snap right now.
@PugJesus fair enough. We’re near it, but the distances involved mean we’re about as near it as New York is to Florida.
Australia itself is so big it spans several climate zones too.
The difference in land mass and weather patterns is part of things as well. This article has some cool maps where they map northern hemisphere cities at the equivalent latitude onto New Zealand - turns out my comment was misleading insofar as, as well as getting less heat we also get less snow than we would if we had more land mass.
Tagging @thesporkeffect
Um, yeah???!!! We’re not a tropical island or something, if that’s what you’re thinking.
If you can find a map that includes us, you’ll see we’re halfway to Antarctica.
I did a search on the image for more information, but instead I noticed something cool
This exact post is the third result (I clicked through and checked the comments)
Cool, we’re hardly ever in search results.
Thanks to your lead I soon found the info. This is a portrait of Mere Tawhara and daughter Kimiora Maata Kotahi, both of Hawkes Bay, taken by Napier photographer Samuel Carnell.
Here is a more conventional picture of them not smiling.
The format is carte de visite so it’s quite likely that Mere Tawhara or her whanau commissioned it.
I’m surprised I can’t find a whole lot more about these people because both mother and daughter are wearing fine clothes and are obviously high status. On the daughter we can see a satin ribbon and tartan dress as well as what looks like a kahukiwi which is one of the most prestigious cloaks. However they do appear on some family trees so they are probably known about.
Tagging @PugJesus cos you like detail.
Bonus: here’s the current weather in Napier, Hawkes Bay
The Fediverse’s influence increases!
That kid looks like a shrunk-down adult.
That kid seen some shit
Who’s that pokemon?!
