Original Watercolour
There is one original watercolour within this frame.

Notes: Ngeungeu is the daughter of Tara, principal chief of Ngai Tai of the Auckland district. Ngeungeu was married to the Waiheke Island trader Thomas Maxwell who was lost at sea. On her head rests a garland of Kowhai Ngutu Kaka, a red flower named after a native parrot. She is drapped in a ngore-paheke (cloak) made with scarlet woollen pompoms and a stitched woollen border. Ngeungeu has a kauwae (traditional Maori woman's chin tattoo). Her son James wears a pake (rain cape), a much heavier garment.

Signed by Angas

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

Lithograph caption: 'Ngeungeu and her son James Maxwell.'
Plate title: 'Ngeungeu, and her son James Maxwell.'
Plate: III
Notes: Lithograph reversed.
Lithographer: W Hawkins

Iwi [Ttribe]: Ngati Tai/Ngai Tai
Location: Omupuia

Former Accession Number 1528(4)