IMAGE
Artist unknown :Ancient tattooing. Moko-kuri. Frontispiece. [From John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)]
- Date
- 1890 - 1891
- Reference
- A-274-012-1
- Description
A frontal view of a Maori man with a moko pattern of small parallel lines at right-angles to one another. He is holding a mere and wearing a tiki on round beads, and a tag-style cloak, with tufts, rather than long tags. He wears four feathers in a headband at the front of his head
The source of this image is not known. There are no known drawing of moko in this style by European artists
A-274-12-2 Tattooing practised by Mata-Ora is on the same sheet
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Lithograph, on sheet 143 x 221 mm
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- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, 1890 / Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, 1890
- Format
- 1 b&w art print(s), Works of art, Lithographs, Lithograph, on sheet 143 x 221 mm
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Artist unknown :Ancient tattooing. Moko-kuri. Frontispiece. [From John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)]. Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, 1890. Ref: A-274-012-1. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22305888More information can be found in our terms of use.