IMAGE
[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :Taupo [Pa, Plimmerton, Cook's Straits. A Wahi Tapu in the foreground. 1844] Whata. Skin of toroa, pieces of it worn in the ears of chiefs.
- Date
- 1844
- Reference
- A-020-032-3
- Description
View looking across the pa site, with several fenced dwellings and clusters of houses. On the right is a tall structure marked 'whata', a storage platform, or possibly a tapu structure. A hill behind the houses is marked 'heath'. In the sky area is a drawing of an albatross skin
On same sheet sketch of: Skin of Toroa - pieces of it worn in the ears of chiefs.
Extended Title - Original for lithograph In: Angas, G F, New Zealanders Illustrated, Plate XLVIII, p. 109.
Taupo Pah was about a mile north of Porirua at Plimmerton and belonged to Te Rauparaha
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pencil, 336 x 338
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844] / [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Whare and entrance to a pa, Plimmerton?. 1844]
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Pencil works, Pencil, 336 x 338
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