Angas, George French 1822-1886: Implements and domestic economy. / George French Angas delt & lith. Plate 55, 1847.

A group of sketches with accompanying text, paraphrased as follows: 1. [Top centre] Mode of fishing with nets on Lake Taupo. 2. [Upper centre]. A fishing weir, or eel pa, on the river Mokau. 3. [Top left] Wooden fish-hook. 4. [Top right] Fish hook generally in use, made of wood with a layer of paua ... 5. Kupenga or eel trap, formed of twigs [a basket trap]. 6. [Centre left]Ko, a wooden spade for rooting up ferns and preparing the ground for plantations. 7. [Upper right, below paua fish-hook] A pestle for beating flax, formed of volcanic trap. 8. [Centre right, below pestle] Wooden flute, one of the orifices is tattooed to resemble the lips of a woman. 9 [Lower left, below digging sticks] Bark bucket and calabashes for holding water. 10. [Lower centre] Ornamented flax basket for household purposes. 11. [Bottom centre] [H]e kumete, ancient wooden bowl for kumaras, from the deserted pa of Otawhao, near Waipa, eight feet in circumference. 12 & 13 [Bottom left and right] flax sandles from Otago. 14 [Centre] Portrait of an aged slave woman, at Pouketouto [Puketutu Pā?], in the interior, beyond Mokau [Waitomo]. The woman is squatting in front of a whare.

Angas visited New Zealand in 1844

Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).

Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured, 230 x 336 mm.