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Date: 1843 - 1849

By: Hall, R, active 1840s; Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: A-114-048

Description: Profile head and shoulders portrait of a Maori man with moko, wearing a feather cloak, holding a taiaha in front of him. Copied from a drawing by Isaac Coates of Nelson Same hand as A-114-046 to A-114-051. See TL 3/1/1/ Dec 1978. See also TL Record v. 23 no. 1 p. 49-67. See also Bett Collection (A-114-052/056) A copy after Isaac Coates. Compare similar portraits by Coates in Alexander Turnbull Library, and in the Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass., USA On Salem caption "Motukawa" [?Tasman Bay] Other Titles - Motueka Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 210 x 150 mm Provenance: P D Hutchinson

Date: 1843 - 1849

By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878; Hall, R, active 1840s

Reference: A-114-051

Description: Profile head and shoulders portrait of Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitake, also known as Whiti, a signatory of the Treaty of Waitangi. He is shown wrapped in a cloak or blanket and with full moko Same hand as A-114-046 and based on a pencil drawing in RNK collection, National Library of Australia RNK v. 7 p14 Pict cat. NK 10010/5 Copy after Isaac Coates, who was resident in Nelson New Zealand between 1843 and 1845. Other Titles - Te Whiti, Waikanae. Wiremu Kingi te Rangitake Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 198 x 140 mm Provenance: P D Hutchinson

Date: 1843

By: Hall, R, active 1840s; Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: A-114-049

Description: Head and shoulders profile portrait of Panni, a Maori man, shown with full facial moko and wrapped in a feather cloak Same hand as A-114-046. See TL 3/1/1/ 5 Dec 1978. See also TL Record v. 23 no. 1 p. 49-67. Thought to be copy after Isaac Coates. cf similar portrait in the Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass., and ATL See also Bett collection (A114/052/056) Other Titles - Ngatiawa, Te Ati Awa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 210 x 140 mm Provenance: P D Hutchinson

Date: 1843

By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: A-255-017

Description: Head and shoulders profile portrait of Te Rangihaeata, a peacock feather in his top-knot, an albatross feather ear adornment and a fine flax cloak. One of a series of portraits of at least twenty Maori men and women done by Nelson artist Isaac Coates. Rangihaeata & Rauparaha, with their wives and whanau, visited Nelson in March 1843, the likely date of this portrait. The artist made various watercolour copies of this portrait, but this appears to be an earlier version than the one held in the Library's collection at A-286-014 and the one in the Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachussets. There is a (probably) still earlier version in the Bett Collection, Nelson Provincial Museum. Other Titles - Rangihaeata Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & ink, 284 x 191 mm Provenance: Purchase: Nigel Tully, Terra Australis, Wollstonecraft, New South Wales, 1985.

Date: 1843 - 1845

By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: A-255-018

Description: Head and shoulder portrait of Maori chief and warrior Te Rauparaha, in profile. He wears an albatross-feather ear adornment, a feather in his hair and a cloak. The artist, Isaac Coates, had the opportunity to observe Te Rauparaha in Nelson in March 1843, when Rauparaha, Rangihaeata and their wives visited Nelson. A number of copies of this portrait were made, particularly after Te Rauparaha became notorious amongst Pakeha settlers after the Wairau Affray in June 1843. Coates left Nelson in 1845 and moved to Australia, so may have taken this version with him, although he appears to have made copies on demand and could have made this for somebody else, rather than himself. Some of the later copies are rather carelessly done, however, and this version appears to be an earlier and more accurate one, comparable in quality to the version in the Bett Collection, Nelson Provincial Museum. It gives a clear view of Te Rauparaha's aquiline nose and prominent upper lip, confirmed by contemporary descriptions. The Library holds other versions of this portrait and there is a version, along with seventeen others by Coates, in the Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachussets. See also "The enigma of the Nelson Maori portraits" by Marian Minson, in "Turnbull Library Record", Vol 23, no. 1, May 1990, p 47-67, especially p. 55 & 56. This version may be the original for awood engraving in the Illustrated London News of 29 June 1844 p 412, since the title is the same. Other Titles - Kawhia Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink, probably in the hand of the artist. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 277 x 185 mm

Date: 1843

By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: DPDL-0002

Description: Digital copies of watercolours by Isaac Coates of seventeen Maori, all drawn in profile. Most are from the Nelson, Motueka and Marlborough regions. Subjects include Rangihaeata, his wife 'Ranguira', Rauparaha, his wife 'Cootia', Panni and Pitoki of Queen Charlotte Sound, Manu, Piro, Iwikau and his wife and child Hingatu, and Rupene all of Wakapuaka near Nelson, Potie 'mistress of W H Wright of Nelson, 'Takup, a noted cannibal', 'A youth of the Motuwaka [Motueka] tribe studying with the Rev C Reay', 'Piki, Kokiri Tribe' and 'E Piko, Kafia Chief' Quantity: 17 digital image(s).

Date: 1843

By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: DPDL-0003

Description: Digital copies of watercolours by Isaac Coates of fifty-two Maori, all drawn in profile. Most are from the Nelson, Motueka, Golden Bay and Marlborough regions, with a few from Port Nicholson (Wellington) and New Plymouth. Subjects include Rangihaeata, his wife 'Ranguira', Rauparaha, his wife 'Cootia', Panni and Pitoki of Queen Charlotte Sound, Manu (Wiremu Katene te Puoho), Piro (or Pero), Iwikau and his wife Hingatu, and child and Rupene all of Wakapuaka near Nelson, 'Potie ... Port Nick', 'A youth of the Motuwaka [Motueka] tribe', 'Piki, Kokiri Tribe', 'Piki Warra' of Motueka, 'E Piko, Kafia Chief' and others. Fifteen of the portraits are duplicated in other collections; thirty-seven are apparently unique. The unique portraits are named as 'Eruera Tuiti [of] Ngatiawa'; 'Eketoo'. ; 'Pinika ... Mokepek'; 'Kariri'; 'Beraka'; 'Poomip'; 'E Kamuaka'; 'Erou' all of Queen Charlotte Sound; 'Engeri'; 'Etou'; 'Atara'; 'Kari'; 'Ropa te mani hera'; 'Eo'; 'Tahia' all of Wakapuaka. Tribal names given include Ngati Toa, Kawhia, Ngatiawa Photographed in groups of two Further unique portraits include 'Nte nui'; 'Ko Huia'; 'Tai Mona'; 'Hara'; 'Tamati' all of Rangitoto [D'Urville Island];'Mokei', 'Ebouka', 'Tohe', E Ngou', 'Apeta', 'E Rua', 'Paipa', 'E Koti', 'Hemi', and 'Emoi', all of Queen Charlotte Sound; 'E Harri of Ngatioma'; 'Tamati Waka Beka' of Taranaki Tribe'; 'Nooka, We Re Ka, of Totaranui'; and 'Nga Huia' of Motueka. Quantity: 28 digital image(s).

Date: 1842 - 1843

By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: A-286-018

Description: Head and shoulders profile portrait of a tattooed Maori mann. The subject could be Punga or Panapa of Queen Charlotte Sound See: Minson, Marian. Art as evidence : the enigma of the Nelson Maori portraits. In: Turnbull Library Record, v. 23, no. 1, May 1990, p.47-67, for further information. Panni (or Pane or Punga) would be likely to have had dealings with Rev. Samuel Ironside at Queen Charlotte Sound. All the Maori of the area left in June 1843, after the Wairau Affray. There is some possibility that the person depicted is Pane Waka (died 1909), a woman with male-style moko, indicating her position as a kohere or ariki nui of Ngai Tahu, who lived for some time at Waikawa, in Queen Charlotte Sound. She signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 in Wellington. She had no children. However the artist's inscription contradicts this possibility, indicating that the subject is an adult male and father of at least two daughters. Pani or Panni was a common rendering of Barney, for baptismal name Panapa or Barnabas. At least two men with this name in Queen Charlotte Sound were baptised by Rev Samuel Ironsides in 1842 - Panapa Kouai, an adult on 14 August 1842 and Panapa Porutu, Tory Channel / Te Awaiti, husband of Meri Makarini Piki and father of Paora, infant, on 7 Aug 1842. Other Titles - Panapa, Barney Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title cf very similar portrait in Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass - "Chief of the tribe ... / I. Coates Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 257 x 192 mm Provenance: Part of a house sale in Boston, purchased by New York dealer, then by Auckland dealer. Transfers: One of 19 portraits (A-282-1 to 19).