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The photograph attached to this page is of Te Paea Hinerangi .Known to many world wide as Guide sophia .Born in the Bay of Islands in the 1830's .
Sophia was the principal guide with the Tiuhourangi at the Pink and White Terraces .Sophia was present at the time of the eruption that buried the terraces in 1886 .
Sophia died in 1911 .
This is a photograph mounted on a card . It is a carte de visite photograph by Pullman a renowned photographer of the Victorian period in New Zeland ..