Original Watercolour
There are seven original watercolours within this frame. Captions and notes are as follows:

1. 'Wakarei'
   
   
2. 'Carved image of Te Rauparaha. Fixed in his war canoe. Kapiti.'
   
   
3. no data
   
   
4. 'Tauwakarei'
   
   
5. 'Hohi pani'
   
   
6. 'Ornamented canoe paddle. Taupo Lakes.'
   
   
7. no data
   
   

Notes:

1. A tauihu (bow figurehead) of a waka taua (war canoe) that belonged to the Rangatira (chief) Te Rauparaha. It is intricately carved and painted in kokowai (red ochre) and decorated with kaka (parrot) and albatross feathers.
   
   
2. A waka taua carving.
   
   
3. A group sailing a waka (canoe) in the Cook Strait.
   
   
4. A carved bow figurehead from a waka taua at Kaiwharawhara.
   
   
5. A carved bow figurehead from a waka taua at Kaiwharawhara.
   
   
6. A hoe (paddle) that belonged to the paramount chief of Ngati Tuwharetoa Te Heuheu Tukino (Mananui II). They have been painted with the symbolic scrolled patterns referred to as kowhaiwhai.
   
   
7. A hoe (paddle) that belonged to the paramount chief of Ngati Tuwharetoa Te Heuheu Tukino (Mananui II). They have been painted with the symbolic scrolled patterns referred to as kowhaiwhai.
   
   
8. A detail from a paddle handle.
   
   

Signed by Angas

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

Lithograph caption: 'Ornamental canoe heads, paddles, &c.'
Plate title: 'Canoe heads, paddles, &c.'
Plate: XLII
Notes: Lithograph reversed, renumbered and captions removed. Watercolour numbered I is unnumbered in the lithograph. II becomes I, III becomes VII, IV becomes III, V becomes IV, VI becomes V and VII becomes VI.
Lithographer: GF Angas

Iwi [Tribe]: Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Toa
Location: Taupo, Cook's Straight, Kapiti, Kaiwharawhara

Former Accession Number 1578