When Lore and History of the South Island Maori was published in 1952 it filled a vacuum in terms of accessible Ngāi Tahu history in the public domain. Despite its scholarly shortcomings, it remained one of the only readily available texts on Ngāi Tahu history for another thirty years. A major element of the publication was its inclusion of photographs, all taken by the author, William Anderson Taylor. Using the Ngāi Tahu portraits in Lore and History as a starting point, and informed where possible by oral interviews with their descendants, this article introduces some of the tribal members who were Taylor’s informants, friends, and photographic subjects. Through a reading of the photographs, the article will briefly trace the trajectory of Taylor’s relationship with Ngāi Tahu and consider how the visual stories illuminate the text of Lore and History and Taylor’s wider body of work with the iwi (tribe) in the first half of the twentieth century. While Taylor is best known as an amateur historian and ethnographer, his photographic practice was also fundamental to his ethnographic research. The photographic contracts that Taylor entered into with the Ngāi Tahu subjects of his photographs created an environment that facilitated exchange, rapport, empathy, and, frequently, enduring bonds.

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“我更多地依靠照片来帮助我”：南岛毛利人的传说和历史中的 Ngāi Tahu 肖像

当 1952 年出版《南岛毛利人的传说和历史》时，它填补了公共领域可访问的 Ngāi Tahu 历史的真空。尽管存在学术上的缺陷，但在接下来的三十年里，它仍然是唯一容易获得的关于 Ngāi Tahu 历史的文本之一。该出版物的一个主要元素是包含照片，所有照片均由作者威廉·安德森·泰勒拍摄。本文以《传说》和《历史》中的 Ngāi Tahu 肖像为起点，并在可能的情况下通过对其后代的口头采访来了解情况，本文介绍了泰勒的线人、朋友和摄影对象的一些部落成员。通过阅读照片，这篇文章将简要追溯泰勒与 Ngāi Tahu 的关系轨迹，并考虑视觉故事如何阐明 Lore 和 History 的文本，以及 Taylor 在 20 世纪上半叶与 iwi（部落）的更广泛的工作。虽然泰勒以业余历史学家和民族志学者而闻名，但他的摄影实践也是他的民族志研究的基础。泰勒与他的照片中的 Ngāi Tahu 主题签订的摄影合同创造了一个促进交流、融洽、同理心以及经常持久联系的环境。