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[Coates, Isaac] 1808-1878 :[Maori portraits in watercolours held by the Pitt Rivers Mus...
Date: 1843
By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878
Reference: DPDL-0003
Description: Digital copies of watercolours by Isaac Coates of fifty-two Maori, all drawn in profile. Most are from the Nelson, Motueka, Golden Bay and Marlborough regions, with a few from Port Nicholson (Wellington) and New Plymouth. Subjects include Rangihaeata, his wife 'Ranguira', Rauparaha, his wife 'Cootia', Panni and Pitoki of Queen Charlotte Sound, Manu (Wiremu Katene te Puoho), Piro (or Pero), Iwikau and his wife Hingatu, and child and Rupene all of Wakapuaka near Nelson, 'Potie ... Port Nick', 'A youth of the Motuwaka [Motueka] tribe', 'Piki, Kokiri Tribe', 'Piki Warra' of Motueka, 'E Piko, Kafia Chief' and others. Fifteen of the portraits are duplicated in other collections; thirty-seven are apparently unique. The unique portraits are named as 'Eruera Tuiti [of] Ngatiawa'; 'Eketoo'. ; 'Pinika ... Mokepek'; 'Kariri'; 'Beraka'; 'Poomip'; 'E Kamuaka'; 'Erou' all of Queen Charlotte Sound; 'Engeri'; 'Etou'; 'Atara'; 'Kari'; 'Ropa te mani hera'; 'Eo'; 'Tahia' all of Wakapuaka. Tribal names given include Ngati Toa, Kawhia, Ngatiawa Photographed in groups of two Further unique portraits include 'Nte nui'; 'Ko Huia'; 'Tai Mona'; 'Hara'; 'Tamati' all of Rangitoto [D'Urville Island];'Mokei', 'Ebouka', 'Tohe', E Ngou', 'Apeta', 'E Rua', 'Paipa', 'E Koti', 'Hemi', and 'Emoi', all of Queen Charlotte Sound; 'E Harri of Ngatioma'; 'Tamati Waka Beka' of Taranaki Tribe'; 'Nooka, We Re Ka, of Totaranui'; and 'Nga Huia' of Motueka. Quantity: 28 digital image(s).
[Coates, Isaac], 1808-1878 :Cootia. Rauparaha's head wife. [1843?]
Date: 1843
By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878
Reference: A-286-013
Description: Head and shoulders profile portrait of Pipi Kutia, stepdaughter & wife of Te Rauparaha See: Minson, Marian. Art as evidence : the enigma of the Nelson Maori portraits. In:Turnbull Library Record, v.23, no.1, May 1990, p.47 - 67 for further information. Pipi Kutia visited Nelson with te Rauparaha in March 1843 and this portrait is likely to have been taken at that date Other Titles - Kutia, Pipi Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title cf similar portraits in the Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass., and in the Bett Collection, Nelson - the Library has file prints Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 257 x 192 mm Provenance: Part of a house sale in Boston, purchased by New York dealer, then by Auckland dealer