| Title: |
Angas, George French, 1822-1886 :Domestic sketches. George French Angas [delt]; J. W. Giles [lith]. Plate 59, 1847. |
| Subject: |
Maori - Pa - New Zealand - Waikato Region; Maori - Food; Maori - Food containers; Maori - Weaving; Wood-carving, Maori; Maori - Social life and customs; Maori - Pa - New Zealand - Wellington Region |
| Abstract: |
A group of scenes inside a pa with explanatory text on the opposite page, paraphrased as follows: 1.[Top centre] A sketch a Kaitote on the Waikato showing a cooking house with a couple of elderly women, seated on the ground outside, performing the hongi. 2. [Top left] An aged woman of Te Mutu making a basket of the leaves of the tawara (Freycinetia Banksii). 3. [Top right] A slave woman preparing potatoes by scraping them with a mussel shell. 4. [Centre] Interior of a house at Rangihaeata's pa at Porirua, with women engaged in manufacturing flax garments. 5. [Bottom left] Tangi or crying of welcome; also Hongi detail on the right. Both sketches from life, were made near Taupiri, on the Waikato River. |
| Geographic Location: |
Plimmerton; Taupiri |
| Personal name(s): |
Giles, J W fl 1847 |
| Addition Description: |
Angas visited New Zealand in 1844, File Print (DFP-004873) In Drawings & Prints under Artist/Title , PART OF COLLECTION, From: The New Zealanders Illustrated by G. F. Angas. London, 1847. plate 59 |
| Format: |
Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm |
| Reference No. |
PUBL-0014-59
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