IMAGE
Angas, George French, 1822-1886 :Tao, a New Zealand girl [1844]
- Date
- 1844
- By
- Angas, George French, 1822-1886
- Reference
- A-340-043
- Description
Shows a portrait of a smiling young Maori girl wearing a woven cloth skirt wrapped around the lower part of her body. Her upper half is bare, save for a string of large beads worn diagonally around her chest. She wears a large pink flower or earring in her left ear, and her hands are folded together on her chest. She is barefoot.
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed; Recto - bottom left - [Title]
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on card, 170 x 111 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Ethnographic illustrations, Portraits, Pencil and watercolour on card, 170 x 111 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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