Original Watercolour
There are six original watercolours within this frame. Captions are as follows:

1. 'Pataka or store for maize. Waiharikeke River.'
   
   
2. 'Pataka. at Te Rapa. Taupo.<'/li>
   
   
   
3. no data
   
   
4. 'Rangihiaeta's Pataka.'
   
   
5. 'Woman beating flax.'
   
   
6. 'Kaka (parrot) on nestor.
   
   

• 'Te Heuheu's Pataka'
  
  
• 'Taupo. October 1844'
  
  

Notes: the watercolour is divided into three layers. Top left (I) is a simple pataka (enclosed and elevated store house) utilised to store and preserve seeds, maize and roots. There are potato baskets below and raupo reed whare (house). Top right (II) is a more elaborately carved pataka painted in red ochre and decorated with feathers. The second layer is one watercolour comprising IV, V and VI. In between V anf IV is a pataka belonging to the paramount chief Te Heuheu Tukino Mananui II (left) and Rangihaeatta's pataka (right, VI). In between the two patakas is a wharepuni (sleeping house), gourds for carrying and storing water, and kete (basket) hanging from stakes would have contained kumera a sweet root vegetable. To the left (V) is a woman with an infant pounding flax fibre. In the top right hand corner of layer two is a kaka (parrot) on a perch. The third layer (III) are two pigs and an object.

Signed by Angas

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

Lithograph caption: 'Whatas or Patukas. (Storeshouses for Food)'
Plate title: 'Whatas, or Patukas, storeshouses for food.'
Plate: XXX
Notes:
Lithographer: JW Giles

Iwi [Tribe]: Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Toa, Tainui
Location: Taupo, Porirua, Te Pahe (Waharikeke River)

Former Accession Number 1613