Original Watercolour
There is one original watercolour within this frame.

Notes: The Rotoaira chief Mungakahi stands wearing a flax kakahu (cloak) made with yellow and black hieke (tags) over large blankets. Mungakahi has a moko (traditional Maori facial tattoo), a greenstone (nephrite jade) ear pendant and holds a taiaha (long club fighting staff) which has been decorated with kaka (parrot) feathers and dog hide. His wife Mari is seated wearing a greenstone hei tiki pendant and a kakahu (cloak) made with thrumbs that have been scraped and dyed. Mount Tongariro is in the background.

Signed by Angas

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

Lithograph caption: 'Mungakahu, chief of Motupoi. and his wife Ko Mari.'
Plate title: 'Mungakahu, chief of Motupoi, and his wife.'
Plate: XXVI
Notes: Subtle change of facial features and hair in lithograph.
Lithographer: JW Giles

Iwi [Tribe]: Ngati Tuwharetoa
Location: Motupoi, a pa [fortified village] in lake Rotoaira, south of Lake Taupo

Former Accession Number 1529(3)