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Date: 1839 - 1827

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jean Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage pittoresque autour du monde et resume generale des descouvertes. Paris, Furne et Cie, 1839.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Boilly, Alphonse, 1801-1867

Reference: PUBL-0034-2-387

Description: A group of a dozen Maori women digging up land for a kumara plantation. In the background is a low whare with a rounded roof and two futher Maori talk to French sailors. In the left foreground is a storage platform holding kete, possibly filled with kumara. Sainson was in New Zealand with Dumont d'Urville in 1827. He would have observed a scene like this in the Far North District, probably in the Bay of Islands. The French word 'patate' normally refers to the sweet potato or kumara in New Zealand. Dumont d'Urville describes Maori as cultivating 'pommes de terre [potatoes], patates [sweet potatoes] et taro'. Other Titles - Clearing or digging up a potato (kumara) field Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving,

Date: 1839 - 1827

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jean Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage pittoresque autour du monde et resume generale des descouvertes. Paris, Furne et Cie, 1839.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: PUBL-0034-2-347

Description: Looking along the beach with several low thatched huts and a canoe pulled up on the beach, bush on the hills behind. Two Maori men are seated in the foreground, and other men and women are also present. A toetoe is in flower to the right of the nearest dwelling Similar to, but reversed from Sainson's lithograph 'Village a l'anse de l'Astrolabe'. Possibly based on a drawing looking in the opposite direction Other Titles - Houses of Astrolabe Bay [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 94 x 115 mm