Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947 :Sophia, by G [sic] F Goldie, Auckland. Supplement to "New Zealand illustrated". Christmas number of "The Press", 1929.

Date
1902 - 1929
By
Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947; Scholfield, Leslie Norman, active 1926-1929; Christchurch Press Company Ltd
Reference
C-117-096
Description

Shows a head and shoulders portrait of an older Maori woman wearing a yellow scarf around her neck, a greenstone earring, and chin moko. She is smoking a pipe, and her eyes look downwards.

The subject is Ina Te Papatahi, of Nga Puhi iwi.

See a profile portrait made in 1902 of the same woman smoking, in Roger Blackley's "Goldie" (Auckland, 1997), page 97. She wears the same yellow scarf in this portrait.

Text below the image reads: "Reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of the late James Jamieson, Christchurch, from one of the collection given by him to the city of Christchurch. The painting will be housed with the rest of the collection in the new Art Gallery".

Extended Title - Printed and published by Leslie Norman Scholfield of 72a Dyer's Pass Road, Cashmere, for the Christchurch Press Company Limited at its Registered Office, Cathedral Square, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, October 21st, 1929.

Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Physical Description: Photolithograph, image 362 x 475 mm, on sheet 460 x 600 mm.

Provenance: Donated by Dr Jim Johnson, Coronado, California, in 1995.

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Curator required
Format
1 colour photo-mechanical print(s), Works of art, Photolithographs, Portraits, Ethnographic illustrations, Photolithograph, image 362 x 475 mm, on sheet 460 x 600 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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