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

1. 'A feast. at Mata Ta. on the East Coast. Mt Edgecombe in the distance.'
   
   
2. 'A party of visitors. Throwing the spear. The mode of salutation.'
   
   

Notes:

1. At the hakari (feast) neighbouring tribes are invited to participate, the event lasting for days or sometimes weeks. The large consumption of food at the hakari is referred to as hui. In this feast participants either sit or stand around a raised platform that stores dried fish and baskets full of kumera and potatoes. Whare (house) are in the background and in the distance is Putauaki (Mount Edgecumbe).
   
   
2. When manuhiri (visitors) arrive from a neighbouring iwi (tribe) the tangata whenua (hosts) are expected to perform a powhiri or pohiri (welcome ceremony) which begins with taki or wero (one of the chiefs throwing a spear), in this case a taiaha (long club fighting staff). The ceremony is peformed in a cleared space in front of the pa (fortified village).
   
   

Signed by Angas

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

Lithograph caption:
'

1. A feast at Mata-Ta, on the East Coast Mt Edgecumbe in the distance.
   
   
2. Throwing the spear, the mode of salutation A Party of Visitors arriving.
   
   

'
Plate title:

• 'A feast at Mata-Ta. Mount Edgecumbe in the Distance.'
  
  
• 'Throwing the spear. The mode of salutation.'
  
  

Plate: XXXVI
Notes:
Lithographer: JW Giles

Iwi [Tribe]:
Location: Matata, Maungataritari, beyond Waipa

Former Accession Number 1611