Leveille :Taha-Tahala, natif de Otago ... Heroua, native de Otago, Ile Tavai-Pounamu, N[ouve]lle Zelande (Polynesie). Lith par Leveille d'apres les bustes moules sur nature, photographie par Bisson d'apres la direction de Mr le Dr Doumoutier. Gide Editeur. Imp. par Thierry Freres a Paris. [Paris, 1842-1847]

Busts of a Māori man and woman of Otago. On the left is the tattooed head and neck of a Māori man, Takatahara, lithographed from a photograph, in its turn a plaster model of the subject taken from life, during Dumont d'Urville's visit to Dunedin in 1840. Similarly, on the right, is the bust of a woman whose name is given as Heroua. She is shown without moko, but with clear mourning scarification on her forehead and cheeks.

The two busts from which these copies were made are in the Musee du Quai d'Orsay, Paris

Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, J.S.C. Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie. Paris, Gide, 1842-1847. Atlas. Anthropologie. Plate 13

Takatahara

Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).

Physical Description: Lithograph, 280 x 345 mm (plate mark), on sheet 335 x 530 mm

Provenance: Prior to purchase, held in England