IMAGE
[Downes, Thomas William] 1868-1938 :[Catching the legendary eel at Tangahoe. 1938?]
- Date
- 1938
- By
- Downes, Thomas William, 1868-1938; Bathgate, Charles McLelland, 1893-1970
- Reference
- A-076-016
- Description
An enormous eel being tempted out of the Tangahoe Stream, a tributary of the Whanganui River, by a Maori man with a live bird on the end of a rod. Others are dragging a platform up the river bank, with the eel on top of it.
An original for an illustration in 'Concerning large eels' in Whanganui River Stories (1938)
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour, 200 x 300 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Conjectural works, Watercolour, 200 x 300 mm
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