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Tents at the 1979 Nambassa festival

Tents were standard accommodation for the more than 65,000 'Nambassadors' who attended the festival at Golden Valley, near Waihi, in January 1979.

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Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: EP/1979/0382/34-F
Photographer: Brett Richardson
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa must be obtained before any reuse of this image.

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