IMAGE
Fox, William 1812-1893 :[Maori on shore watching a canoe beach. Kits of food beside the group. 1845?]
- Date
- 1845
- By
- Fox, William, 1812-1893
- Reference
- E-080-q-3-001
- Description
The palisades of a pa to the left, a group of six Maori men (one holding a taiaha), women and children, with a baby, left centre, by a beach. In the foreground are two kete full of potatoes or kumara. A canoe with four occupants is close to shore, attached by a rope to a stone, and either leaving or arriving. A further canoe is visible in the background as are several whare, and a tree converted to a double-platform pataka or food-storage construction. The settlement is on a narrow strip of land between the sea and hills in the background.
In one of George Duppa's sketchbooks. In the same sketchbook, on the following page, is a pencil drawing by Fox of Melville Cove (E-080-q-3-002) likely to have been drawn in 1845. This view [Maori on shore ...] may show Waitohi Pa at the head of Marlborough Sounds, now the site of Picton. It shows a large pa, not the small kainga depicted in a watercolour by Fox of Melville Cove. The watercolour of Melville Cove is inscribed Melville Cove, S. side of Cook's Straits, 1845. It is in the collections of the Hocken Library
Other Titles - Marlborough Sounds
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W. Fox del
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pencil on paper 185 x 270 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- [Duppa, George 1817-1888] :[Sketchbook ca 1852-1860] / [Duppa, George 1817-1888] :[Sketchbook ca 1852-1860]
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Pencil works, Pencil on paper 185 x 270 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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