IMAGE
Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889 :Te Rehe, Maori chief at Akaroa. [ca 1850].
- Date
- 1848 - 1850
- By
- Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889; McClintock, Madeleine, active 1985; Groshinski, Brian Peter, 1944-
- Reference
- B-089-009
- Description
Shows a bearded Maori man wearing a feather cloak and leaning forward slightly on a taiaha he is holding.
Title from letter of authentication on backing board (accompanies painting in same folder)
Name of chief formerly transcribed as Te Peke.
Te Rehe was Rangatira of Te Wai a te Rua Ti Pa, at the mouth of the Opihi River, near Temuka, South Canterbury, but (if the word Akaroa has been correctly deciphered on this work) he must have visited Akaroa at the time Oliver was there. Te Rehe is mentioned as one of a group involved in an altercation during a journey between the spit of Lake Ellesmere (Kaitorete) and Taumutu, when he was accompanying a contingent of Kaiapoi chiefs (See "Akaroa and Banks Peninsula" (1940), page 31-32).
Other Titles - Te Peke
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Te Rehe; Recto - bottom right - [Akaroa??]; Backing board recto - centre - [Title]
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour, 320 x 235 mm (sight)
Provenance: Previously owned by the artist's descendent Mrs Madeleine McClintock and sold to Brian Groshinski. Sold at McArthur's auction in 1984 to Goodman Fielder.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Portraits, Ethnographic illustrations, Watercolour, 320 x 235 mm (sight), Orientation: Vertical image
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