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

1. Weeping over a deceased chief near Mokau.'
   
   
2. 'A tangi or meeting of friends. Mount Egmont in the Distance.'
   
   

Notes:

1. The tangi or tangihanga (process of grieving when a chief or person of rank has died) lasts for several days. In this scene, the mourners gather around the tupapaku (deceased chief) who lies under the verandah of a meeting house. A pataka (enclosed and elevated store house) is in the background.
   
   
2. At the tangi (meeting of friends) the visitors are greeted with the hongi. The hongi is where two people press their noses together an exchange the ha (breath of life). Mount Taranki (Mount Egmont) is in the background.
   
   

Signed by Angas

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

The two original watercolours have been divided into two lithographs: the top watercolur is Plate XLV and the bottom watercolour is Plate LII.

Plate XLV
Lithograph caption: 'Weeping over a deceased chief.'
Plate title: 'Lamentation over a deceased chief.'
Notes: Subtle differences that includes use of shadows, facial features and hair.

Plate LII
Lithograph caption: 'A Tangi, or meeting of friends. Mount Egmont in the distance'
Plate title: 'The ceremony of ongi, or pressing noses.'
Notes: Subtle difference that includes hair, facial features and colour.

Lithographer: JW Giles

Iwi [Tribe]:
Location: Mokau, Taranaki

Former Accession Number 1610