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[Ashworth, Edward] 1814-1896 :Native built church (wharay karakia) at Te Whatawat on the Waipa River New Zealand. [1843]
- Date
- 1843
- By
- Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896
- Reference
- A-208-004
- Description
The interior of a Maori church, with tukutuku panels between the upright beams in the walls and two central beams supporting the ridge-pole. Ten Maori are seated inside. Along the top, the artist has written the Maori for various building terms: roof tuanui, beam kanae, rafters keke, door tatau, lath ehako, posts wapu. He also adds 'The beams, posts, rafters etc are not squared but very neatly adzed'.
Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001.
Other Titles - Whare karakia, Whatawhata. This is the usual construction.
Notes on architecture in the upper and lower margins (including the Maori names for various parts of the building) and the text of the Lord's Prayer in Maori on the back
Sketched on Ashworth's trip up the Waikato and Waipa rivers, December 1843
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Pen & ink, 195 x 210 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Pen & ink, 195 x 210 mm
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