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Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :N[ouvel]le-Zelande. No 40. [1825 or 1826]
Date: 1824 - 1826
From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]
By: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854
Reference: C-082-087
Description: 28 artifacts brought back to France by Duperrey from the Bay of Islands in 1824. They include greenstone, bone and wooden carved weapons, implements and musical instruments. There are two axes, a patu and three mere (clubs), a fork made from a bone of Korokoro, Chief of Kahouwera Pa, a feeding tube, four flutes, a comb, four fish-hooks, an oar, two carved waka huia, a kumete or bowl, a bailer, a tiki, earrings, other small adornments, and a carved stick. Likely to have been drawn by Chazal from specimens brought back to France from Duperrey's visit to the Bay of Islands in 1824. Other Titles - New Zealand. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature: A. Chazal Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour, 370 x 250 mm
Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :Nouvelle-Zelande. No 203. Toki. Patou-patou. Dent de poisso...
Date: 1825 - 1826
From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]
By: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854
Reference: C-082-085
Description: A Maori greenstone axe with carved wooden handle, a greenstone patu, a shark's tooth earring, a carved wooden flute and a large bone and flax-bound fish-hook. The text in French beside the earring continues 'et a laquelle ils attachent les idees les plus superstitieuses, les femmes l'en servent pour se dechirer le visage dans leurs ceremonies de deuil" (Translation: and to which they attach the most superstitious ideas, the women use them to cut their faces in their mourning ceremonies). The text alongside the flute marks "A. Ouverture. B. tres petit trou" (Translation: A. aperture. B. Very small hole [at the end of the flute]). Likely to have been drawn by Chazal from specimens brought back to France from Duperrey's visit to the Bay of Islands in 1824. Other Titles - New Zealand. Toki (axe). Patu patu. Marine fish tooth which the New Zealanders wear hanging from their ear. Native fish hook. Inscriptions: Recto - ink inscriptions beside each item Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 303 x 228 mm