IMAGE
[Balchin, Ernest Rout?], fl 1936 (copyist) :The East End of Lake Rotoiti; Matawhaura Mountain and Tapuwae-haruru Village [ca 1936]
- Date
- 1936
- Reference
- A-423-013
- Description
Watercolour of Lake Rotoiti, copied from a print in the 'New Zealand free lance', 16 September 1936, shows a corner of the lake, with two figures with a canoe drawn up on the beach in the foreground, a whare at the far right, and a distinctive hill on the lake shore in the background.
James Cowan's "Legends of the Maori" (1930-1934), Volume 1, page 310, states: "Matawhaura is a beautiful wooded mountain rising precipitously above Tapuwae-haruru Bay, at the eastern end of Lake Rotoiti. It is a famous range in local song and story. For generations the dead of the Ngati-Pikiao were buried in a cavern near its summit, on the side overlooking the lake, below the bush-grown ramparts of the ancient Pakipaki Pa".
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour on card, 75 x 117 mm, on card 153 x 230 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- [Balchin, Ernest Rout?], fl 1936 (copyist) :[Two watercolours. 1. Early military encampment at Scinde Island Napier; 2. East end of Lake Rotoiti, Matawhaura Mountain and Tapuwae-haruru Village. ca 1936]
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour on card, 75 x 117 mm, on card 153 x 230 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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