IMAGE
[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :Ngeungeu and her son James Maxwell. Plate 3 / George French Angas. W Hawkins. B. W. lithog. 1846.
- Date
- 1844 - 1847
- By
- Hawkins, Benjamin Waterhouse, 1807-1894
- Reference
- PUBL-0014-03
- Description
Standing double portrait of a young woman wrapped in a pom-pom cloak, with kaka-beak flowers in her hair, her son in a kiwi feather cloak standing behind her.
According to the associated text, Ngeugneu (spelled thus) was the daughter of Tara (see plate 34) and wife of Thomas Maxwell. They lived on Waiheke Island with several children, until after the death by drowning of her husband, when she returned to her village Omupuia (near Auckland). She was of the Ngati Tai iwi
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) in publication..
Physical Description: Hand-coloured lithograph, 245 x 326 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s) in publication., Works of art, Lithographs, Albums, Hand-coloured lithograph, 245 x 326 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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