IMAGE
Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 :From a New Zealand tradition. [ca 1850]
- Date
- 1849 - 1853
- By
- Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881
- Reference
- E-144-065
- Description
Maori men fighting, while one man climbs from a trapdoor in the roof of a low whare. A larger whare and a pataka, along with palisades, are in the background
Reproduced in Polynesian mythology by Sir George Grey (London, 1855), opposite page 171
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: C. Heaphy. Title bottom left in the hand of the artist
Quantity: 1 photograph(s).
Physical Description: Photograph of pencil drawing, original, 10.4 x 10.3 inches
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].
- Format
- 1 photograph(s), Works of art, Photographs, Photograph of pencil drawing, original, 10.4 x 10.3 inches
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