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Date: 1826 - 1833

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Adam, Jean Victor, 1801-1867

Reference: B-052-011

Description: On the left, a family group of three Maori from the Hauraki area, a man wearing a short cloak and carrying a carved canoe paddle on the right, a woman in a longer cloak, centre, another figure walking away on the left. On the right, a man and a woman from 'Houa-Houa' (Tolaga Bay), the man with a spear in his right hand and a patu at his waist, his hair in a topknot. Both he and the woman wear woven skirts with a taniko border Other Titles - New Zealand. Costume of the warriors of Hauraki. Costume of the inhabitants of Tolaga Bay [Translation] Extended Title - From Dumont d'Urville, J S C Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe, 1826-1829. Paris; 1833. Atlas 1, Plate 58 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (hand-coloured) 25 x 36 mm

Date: 1856

From: [Josenhans, J] :Illustrations of missionary scenes; an offering to youth. Mayence [Mainz], Joseph Scholz publisher, [1856]. 2 volumes.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: PUBL-0151-1-010

Description: Shows Upokia, a Whangarei chief, seated in death, his back against a carved pole (possibly a rendering of a canoe, simplified by the artist), skulls and other human bones at his side on a mat, a flax fence around him, with the preserved heads of other men impaled on poles holding up the fence. A mere and another weapon (a Marquesan club) are suspended from the fence. The chief is wearing two different fine cloaks, albatross feathers in his hair and ears and a garland of pink and white flowers around his head. The image is partially derived from Louis de Sainson's 'Scene de deuil a la Nouvelle-Zelande' [Scene of mourning in New Zealand], an engraving published in Dumont d'Urville's 'Voyage pittoresque autour du monde' (Paris, 1834), Vol 2 opp. p. 406. The artist in the Josenhans / Scholz publication has, however, added the fence and mokomokai (preserved heads), suggesting a possible derivation from an intermediate version published by J. S. Polack 'The remains of Upokia, a chief of Wangari, lying in state' a wood engraving illustrating Polack's 'Manners and customs of the New Zealanders...' (London, 1840, p. 64). Polack's version does show moko mokai and a surrounding fence and acknowledges that the chief in question is Upokia. In Sainson's earlier version, the body is seated against a carved pole, has skulls and other human bones to one side, but shows the women of the tribe mourning, slashing themselves with sharp shells and men firing guns in the background The text opposite emphasises that on this occasion, European influence prevented the murder of slaves to mark the death of the chief.As a result, the females of the chief's household did not kill themselves either Extended Title - In "Illustrations of missionary scenes" (1856), vol 1, plate 10. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) in published volume. Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, on page 207 x 330 mm.

Date: 1788

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Brodtmann, Karl Joseph, 1787-1862

Reference: A-464-034

Description: Shows a variety of waeapons, tools and jewellery used by Maori. Also shows implements from Australia (New Holland), including necklaces made with shells, an axe, knife and spear, and a canoe Other Titles - New Zealand. Plate 28. Weapons from Murderers Bay. Fish-hooks from Astrolabe Bay. Earrings from Astrolabe Bay. Mortar and pestle for pounding fern roots. Pounamu pendant. Boar's-tooth pendant [translation] Extended Title - From: 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. Brodtmann's lithograpischen Anstalt, [1836? Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, on wove paper, 360 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchase: Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, April 2014