Story: Dancing
Media: Zoomify
A well-filled dance card can be seen below this sketch of a ball at Government House in Auckland in 1864. The artist was Lieutenant Colonel Edward Williams, who served in the Waikato and South Taranaki campaigns of the New Zealand wars.
Using this item
Reference: A-284-027
by Edward Arthur Williams
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
How to cite this page
Megan Cook, Dancing – Dancing in 19th-century New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/40932/dancing-between-battles-1864 (accessed 27 October 2025).
Story by Megan Cook, published 27 February 2013.