IMAGE
Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 :Te Tanewha or Hook Nose aged 96. Chief of the Ngatewhanaunga Tribe, Coromandel. Was on board the Resolution when about 12 years old. [ca. 1853]
- Date
- 1853
- By
- Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881
- Reference
- E-144-062
- Description
Half-length three-quarters frontal portrait of Te Horeta te Taniwha. He has moko, a greenstone ear adornment and wears a hei tiki. He wears a white European shirt,
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: Chas. Heaphy. Title bottom centre in the hand of the artist
Quantity: 1 photograph(s).
Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original, 12 x 9 in
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].
- Format
- 1 photograph(s), Works of art, Photographs, Portraits, Photograph of watercolour, original, 12 x 9 in
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