The 1926 Black Ferns?
There's a story to uncover behind a photograph which may yet rewrite our history.
An unknown women’s rugby team, poses in Gloucester, England in 1926. They wear black uniforms emblazoned with the letters NZ and the fern. This photo can be viewed in Wellington at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
In a little envelope, at the Alexander Turnbull Library, sits a photograph that shouldn’t exist.
Current records tell us that international wo…