IMAGE
Angas, George French, 1822-1886 :Domestic sketches. George French Angas [delt]; J. W. Giles [lith]. Plate 59, 1847.
- Date
- 1844 - 1847
- By
- Giles, John West, 1801-1870
- Reference
- PUBL-0014-59
- Description
A group of scenes inside a pa with explanatory text on the opposite page, paraphrased as follows: 1.[Top centre] A sketch a Kaitote on the Waikato showing a cooking house with a couple of elderly women, seated on the ground outside, performing the hongi. 2. [Top left] An aged woman of Te Mutu making a basket of the leaves of the tawara (Freycinetia Banksii). 3. [Top right] A slave woman preparing potatoes by scraping them with a mussel shell. 4. [Centre] Interior of a house at Rangihaeata's pa at Porirua, with women engaged in manufacturing flax garments. 5. [Bottom left] Tangi or crying of welcome; also Hongi detail on the right. Both sketches from life, were made near Taupiri, on the Waikato River.
Angas visited New Zealand in 1844
Other Titles - Domestic ecomony. Women making mats etc.
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Works of art, Lithographs, Albums, Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm
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Giles, John West, 1801-1870. Angas, George French, 1822-1886 :Domestic sketches. George French Angas [delt]; J. W. Giles [lith]. Plate 59, 1847.. Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.. Ref: PUBL-0014-59. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22785217More information can be found in our terms of use.