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Date: 1832

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: G-402

Description: A portrait of the seated figure of Tohitapu, with long hair and beard. Inscribed on verso: 'Tohitapu from sketch by Rev. H. Williams. Carved and coloured wooden frame is from church at Te Wairoa which was buried by the eruption of Tarawera in 1886'. Tohitapu feasted on the body of Marion du Fresne. Frame: in a frame carved with Maori designs A copy of an original drawing in Auckland Museum Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pencil drawing, 215 x 165 mm Provenance: Unknown

Date: 1833 - 1838

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Benz, J, active 1830s; Brodtmann, Karl Joseph, 1787-1862

Reference: B-193-004

Description: A profile portrait of the Northland chief See also B-052-009 for a copy of the French version of this portrait. The image is reversed Other Titles - Ngatai, a chief from Bream Bay (New Zealand) [translation] Extended Title - In Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842. Entdeckungs-Reise der franzosischen Corvette Astrolabe ... aus dem Franzosischen mit einem lithographirten Atlas. Schaffhausen [Switzerland], in J. Brodtmanns lithographischen Anstalt, [1836?] [Plate] 35 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 320 x 233 mm (sight), in matt 500 x 400 mm Provenance: Purchase: Cordy's, Auckland, antique and art auction 18 February 2014; lot 550

Date: 1839 - 1840

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-144-064-1

Description: The body of a chief, lying on a bier, with a whare, a pataka and the palisades of a pa in the background. Seven Maori are seated outside the whare. A small dog sniffs around a cooking pot on the left. A crossed rifle, a taiaha and another weapon are at the head of the bier. Original drawing for a reproduction in Polynesian mythology by George Grey (London, 1855), opposite page 151 Other Titles - Waikanae Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: Chas. Heaphy. Title bottom left in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original, 8.9 x 12.6 inches

Date: 1832

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: PAColl-9679

Description: Portrait of the seated figure of Tohitapu, with long hair and beard. Photographic print by an unidentified photographer of an original pencil sketch drawn in 1832. Source of title - Supplied by library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) of pencil drawing. Physical Description: Photographic print 17 x 21 cm [30 x 38 cm] Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

Date: 1827 - 1838

By: Earle, Augustus, 1793-1838; Beutel, Colin, active 1997

Reference: B-110-059

Description: The artist and his friend, Mr Shand, seated in a rocky inlet, surrounded by bush, in coversation with Hongi Hika and a group of family and other attendants. Two canoes are drawn up on the beach to the left and other Maori are visible in the distance. A carved figure leans from a rock behind and above Hongi. There are rifles and cartridge cases on the ground and one man is holding a taiaha. The scene is on a beach close to Russell (Kororareka) and took place in November 1827. Based on an oil in the Library's collection: Meeting of the artist with the wounded chief Hongi, by Augustus Earle (G-707) Other Titles - Hongi Hika Extended Title - From Earle, Augustus. Sketches illustrative of the native inhabitants ... of New Zealand. London, 1838. Plate 2. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 239 x 379 mm