Ceylon - Tea Estate Hantane Estate | Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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NameCeylon - Tea Estate Hantane Estate

ProductionBrian Brake; photographer; 1956; Sri Lanka

Classificationgelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives

Materialsphotographic gelatin, silver, black-and-white film, roll film

Materials Summaryblack and white negative

Techniquesblack-and-white photography

Registration NumberE.004268

Credit lineGift of Mr Raymond Wai-Man Lau, 2001

Overview

Brian Brake's original caption sheets for this roll of film, with frame numbers referring to content:

Frames 2-6: The packing cases of tea being stencilled with the name of the estate.

7-10: Inspecting and tasting samples of th enew tea, in the factory.

11, 12: Pyper demonstrating the board which shows all the statistics in relation to the finances of the workers.

13: Pyper looking through the accounts.

14, 15: L.S Pyper's bungalow.

16, 17: Pyper talking to one of the workers.

18-24: Major and Mrs Pyper and their children in the living room of the bungalow.

25: The nurse with the smaller of the children.

26, 27: Living quarter of the workers of the estate.

29-31: A tile copied from an ancient original and used in large numbers by the architect Minette de Silva in the wall of one of the houses she has built.

32-36: Extreme longshots Ceylon landscape.