'Rangitakina. Chief of Ngaitorungiohiri. Bay of Plenty.'

Archive Collections / George French Angas / Series AA8/06 / 'Rangitakina. Chief of Ngaitorungiohiri. Bay of Plenty.'

Original Watercolour
There is one original watercolour within this frame.

Notes: Rangitakina stands bare feet and wrapped in two cloaks: a ngore-paheke (cloak) made with red woollen pompoms and fringing is worn over the top of a kahu kuri (dog skin cloak) made of white dogs' hide and hair and has deep black borders. He has a moko (traditional Maori facial tattoo). In the background are fish drying on stakes, a cliff, three people on the shore and two beached waka tete (fishing canoe).

Signed by Angas

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

Lithograph caption: 'Rangitankina. A chief of the Bay of Plenty, on the east coast.'
Plate title: 'Rangitankina, A chief of the Bay of Plenty.'
Plate: XXIV
Notes: Facial features and background different in lithgraph.
Lithographer: W Hawkins

Iwi [Tribe]: Ngati Awa
Location: Bay of Plenty

Former Accession Number 1623

CreatorGeorge French Angas
ControlAA 8/6/15
Date Range1844  -  1844
Quantity   1   Watercolour 34.5x24cm; Mount 53.5x40.5
Series AA8/06