IMAGE
Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937 :Native Pa [Umurakau. ca 1900]
- Date
- 1915
- By
- Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Hogg, Helen Hume, -1971
- Reference
- B-035-022
- Description
A view looking up to a conical hill with a path winding up it and palisades at various points, especially on the top of the hill.
According to a note on the back of the mount this pa was "constructed by Ngati Pukeko at Te Whaiti early in the nineteenth century. They were expelled from it by Tuhoe. Many of the palisades, of totara, were standing in 1895, but those depicted are a restoration by the artist, and are wrongly placed." The note is signed Elsdon Best and dated 6.2.1915.
There is another view of the same pa site by Boscawen, titled A bush pa in the Urewera Country. It is a wash drawing, ca 180 x 250 mm in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. It is in the scrapbook of T. E. Donne titled Maoris and Maori antiquities, 1844-1846, reference number PXA 2073 f 32.
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and signature H. Boscawen in brushpoint
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour, 150 x 260 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour, 150 x 260 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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