Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889 :[Ihawera. ca 1850]

Shows three women, two of them older and sitting on the ground in front of a hut. One smokes a pipe. The third, a younger woman, is standing between them. She wears a blue and white-striped top (possibly a sailor's clothing), and is wrapped in a red blanket. She also wears a knotted scarf around her neck, and a garland of flowers around her head. All three women have facial moko. On the ground in front of them lie a gourd, kete, an axe and a tewhatewha. The scene is possibly set in the Hauraki district

Possibly the same woman who appears in Oliver's 'Inside the stockade with natives outside', ca 1850, and who wears virtally the same attire of striped shirt, red blanket and knotted scarf (B-089-001). This in turn was used as the basis for 'Stranger's house (Houraki Pah)', Plate 5 in R A Oliver's 'A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand' (London, Dickinson Bros, 1852) (C-054-008)

Other Titles - Red blanket (translation)

Other Titles - Iahwera (transcribed misspelling)

Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Iahwera [in faint pencil - misspelt]; Recto - bottom left - Mary[?] [in faint pencil]

Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).

Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 360 x 255 mm, in gate-fold mat 580 x 435 mm