IMAGE
[Coates, Isaac] 1808-1878 :Pitoki. Queen Charlotte's Sound. One of the Council of the tribe at Queen Charlotte's Sound. [1843?]
- Date
- 1842 - 1845
- By
- Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878
- Reference
- A-286-019
- Description
Head and shoulders profile portrait of a Maori man, possibly Wiremu Potiki, of Queen Charlotte Sound, who signed the Treaty of Waitangi.
See: Minson, Marian. Art as evidence : the enigma of the Nelson Maori portraits. In: Turnbull Library record, v. 23, no. 1, May 1990, p.47-47 for further information. Pitoki may be Potiki, a signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi on 5 May 1840 at Cloudy Bay. He was baptised in Dunedin at the end of 1843 and died in 1880 - see artists' file under Coates for biographical information from a descendant, Marlene McDonald of Dunedin.
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title
cf almost identical portrait in Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass (Coates, I. One of the Council...). Library has file prints
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-286-1 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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