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[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :Motupoi Pah with Tongariro [1844]
Date: 1844
By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961
Reference: A-196-022
Description: A series of palisades of the pa on the hill to the left, with storehouses visible behind the highest level of fencing. Four Maori seated or leaning on a carved post in the foreground, along with a piglet; two others seated at the lake edge and three in or beside a small waka laden with stores at the water's edge. Related copies: Original for a lithograph by J W Giles in The New Zealanders Illustrated (London, 1847), Plate 32. Motupoi Pah was described by Angas as a heavily fortified pa on a neck of land jutting into lake Roto-Aire. The chief at the time of this painting was Munga-Kahu, a Roman Catholic convert. Purchased with assistance from the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 573 x 820 mm Provenance: Previously from the collection of Captain A W F Fuller, London.