IMAGE
[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :Motupoi Pah with Tongariro [1844]
- Date
- 1844
- By
- Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961
- Reference
- A-196-022
- Description
A series of palisades of the pa on the hill to the left, with storehouses visible behind the highest level of fencing. Four Maori seated or leaning on a carved post in the foreground, along with a piglet; two others seated at the lake edge and three in or beside a small waka laden with stores at the water's edge.
Related copies: Original for a lithograph by J W Giles in The New Zealanders Illustrated (London, 1847), Plate 32. Motupoi Pah was described by Angas as a heavily fortified pa on a neck of land jutting into lake Roto-Aire. The chief at the time of this painting was Munga-Kahu, a Roman Catholic convert.
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Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour 573 x 820 mm
Provenance: Previously from the collection of Captain A W F Fuller, London.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Ethnographic illustrations, Watercolour 573 x 820 mm
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