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[Coates, Isaac] 1808-1878 :Panni. Chief of the tribe at Queen Charlotte's sound, has two daughters married to Englishmen. [1842 or 1843?]
- Date
- 1842 - 1843
- By
- Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878
- Reference
- A-286-018
- Description
Head and shoulders profile portrait of a tattooed Maori mann. The subject could be Punga or Panapa of Queen Charlotte Sound
See: Minson, Marian. Art as evidence : the enigma of the Nelson Maori portraits. In: Turnbull Library Record, v. 23, no. 1, May 1990, p.47-67, for further information. Panni (or Pane or Punga) would be likely to have had dealings with Rev. Samuel Ironside at Queen Charlotte Sound. All the Maori of the area left in June 1843, after the Wairau Affray.
There is some possibility that the person depicted is Pane Waka (died 1909), a woman with male-style moko, indicating her position as a kohere or ariki nui of Ngai Tahu, who lived for some time at Waikawa, in Queen Charlotte Sound. She signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 in Wellington. She had no children. However the artist's inscription contradicts this possibility, indicating that the subject is an adult male and father of at least two daughters.
Pani or Panni was a common rendering of Barney, for baptismal name Panapa or Barnabas. At least two men with this name in Queen Charlotte Sound were baptised by Rev Samuel Ironsides in 1842 - Panapa Kouai, an adult on 14 August 1842 and Panapa Porutu, Tory Channel / Te Awaiti, husband of Meri Makarini Piki and father of Paora, infant, on 7 Aug 1842.
Other Titles - Panapa, Barney
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title
cf very similar portrait in Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass - "Chief of the tribe ... / I. Coates
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 257 x 192 mm
Provenance: Part of a house sale in Boston, purchased by New York dealer, then by Auckland dealer.
Transfers: One of 19 portraits (A-282-1 to 19).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Portraits, Watercolour & gum arabic 257 x 192 mm, Orientation: Vertical image
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