Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :Ruamoa. Wed. 29 Dec. 1852.

Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :Ruamoa. Wed. 29 Dec. 1852.
Date
1852
Reference
E-332-064
Description

Three men, possibly two pakeha and a Maori man (on the right, smoking a pipe) seated beside flax kits, probably at the end of a meal. A tattered flag is stuck in the ground to their right. A tent, a raupo hut with a blanket drying or airing over its roof, and a drying rack are in front of them and they are looking out towards a wide bay, with hills to the south..

The name Ruamoa is no longer in current use, but appears to be at the mouth of the Awamoa River. Mantell and his party appear to be in a bay between Kakanui and Moeraki, probably All Day Bay, just south of Kakanui, since Orere is mentioned as one of the distant hills to the south of the point at which this drawing was made.

Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in pencil, overwritten (by Mantell) in ink.; Recto - above image - geographical features noted: Kuri Cleft. Bluff. Orore [i.e. Orere]. Kakanui. Ruby. Ohineho [?]

Quantity: 1 drawing(s).

Physical Description: Ink & wash, 182 x 229 mm

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Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 1] 1851-1852 / Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 1] 1851-1852
Format
1 drawing(s), Works of art, Ink & wash, 182 x 229 mm
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