IMAGE
[Gilfillan, John Gordon?], 1839-1875 :A Maori camp with men cooking [1860s or early 1870s?]
- Date
- 1860 - 1875
- By
- Gilfillan, John Alexander, 1793-1863; Gilfillan, John Gordon, 1839-1875
- Reference
- B-172-002
- Description
Shows a group of five Maori men preparing food. They wear cloaks and full moko. Two are seated with their backs to the viewer, on either side of a central steaming cooking pot which one is stirring. Two men in cloaks stand watching them, and one figure at the left is about to cut up a pig (or sheep). There is a basket of gourds at the left behind one of the seated men. A pig stands in the right foreground tied to a peg in the ground. Behind and to the right a cloaked woman holds an infant in front of a pitched tent. More figures and pigs are standing in the background at left and right.
Watercolour attributed by the vendor to John A Gilfillan, depicting a scene in the area in which he lived. It appears to be by a more primitive hand, perhaps his son John Gordon Gilfillan.
Sales catalogue listed this work as: "A Maori pa with women cooking".
Other Titles - A Maori pa with women cooking
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour, 193 x 294 mm.
Provenance: Brought into the UK in August 2006, from a private collection, Vancouver Island.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Ethnographic illustrations, Watercolour, 193 x 294 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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