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Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :Nouvelle-Zelande. No 203. Toki. Patou-patou. Dent de poisson marin que les zelandais portent suspendue a leur oreille ... Flute. Hamecon des naturels. [1825 or 1826]
- Date
- 1825 - 1826
- By
- Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854
- Reference
- C-082-085
- Description
A Maori greenstone axe with carved wooden handle, a greenstone patu, a shark's tooth earring, a carved wooden flute and a large bone and flax-bound fish-hook. The text in French beside the earring continues 'et a laquelle ils attachent les idees les plus superstitieuses, les femmes l'en servent pour se dechirer le visage dans leurs ceremonies de deuil" (Translation: and to which they attach the most superstitious ideas, the women use them to cut their faces in their mourning ceremonies). The text alongside the flute marks "A. Ouverture. B. tres petit trou" (Translation: A. aperture. B. Very small hole [at the end of the flute]).
Likely to have been drawn by Chazal from specimens brought back to France from Duperrey's visit to the Bay of Islands in 1824.
Other Titles - New Zealand. Toki (axe). Patu patu. Marine fish tooth which the New Zealanders wear hanging from their ear. Native fish hook.
Inscriptions: Recto - ink inscriptions beside each item
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour, 303 x 228 mm
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- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour, 303 x 228 mm
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