This item is restricted.

Original Watercolour
There is one original watercolour within this frame.

Notes: This site is wahi tapu (sacred burial site) which is restricted. The tomb has been enclosed within two fenced boundries painted in kokowai (red ochre) with white feathers fastened at intervals.The chief's name has been carved near the top of the centrally placed waka whakamaumaharatanga (canoe cenotaph). Clusters of kaka (parrot) feathers have been attached to the cenotaph and painted with the symbolic scrolled patterns known as kowhaiwhai. On either side of the tomb is a raupo reed whare (house).

Signed by Angas on mount

Lithograph
The original has been used in Angas's The New Zealanders.

Lithograph caption: 'Tomb of Huriwenua, a late chief of the Nga Ti Toa Tribe Queen Charlotte Sound'
Plate title: 'Tomb of the late Chief Huriwenua, Queen Charlotte's Sound.'
Plate: XXIII
Notes:
Lithographer: JW Giles

Iwi [Tribe]: Ngati Rahiri, Ngati Toa, Te Atiawa
Location: Huriwhenua, Queen Charlotte's Sound

Former Accession Number 1529(1)