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[Artist unknown] :[Sketches of a Maori muru at Parawera, Waikato, by an unknown Maori a...
Date: 1860 - 1900
By: Mair, Gilbert, 1843-1923; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: A-081-001/006
Description: Sketches depicting incidents arising out of a taua or raiding party visiting Parawera settlement to exact revenge after a case of adultery. The marae, various groupings of iwi, dances, fights, haka, horseriding, and competitions are depicted, along with a visit from the police. The Parawera group were Ngati Apakura, Te Wherowhero's iwi, and the visitors in search of payment were Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Hourua and Ngati Koroki. Ngati Haua are also mentioned in one sketch. Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper ca 230 x 320 mm Provenance: Given to Alexander Turnbull in 1913 by Gilbert Mair. See covering letter of 17 November 1913 in MS 57, Folder 64. A typescript copy is held with the drawings in Box A-081. Mair ironically compares the artist to the French portraitist of Napoleon, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier
Mair, Gilbert 1843-1923 :Maungakakaramea, or, Te Tihi o Ruru, Waiotapu 1888
Date: 1888
By: Mair, Gilbert, 1843-1923; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: A-032-005
Description: View of a bend in a river, or a lake, with hills beyond Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Charcoal sketch 178 x 254 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull? Mair gave Turnbull other drawings.