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

1. 'A Maori or native swing.'
   
   
2. 'Natives dancing their war dance before the Pa of Hoinemutu at Roturua Lakes.'
   
   

Notes:

1. The swing is a popular recreational activity in the villages around Taupo. The centre pole with flax cords is fixed into the ground off a sloping bank. Participants run and swing backwards and forwards into the air, sometimes in a circular motion. A group of spectators have gathered in the foreground. In the background is a palisade fence and a raupo reed whare (house).
   
   
2. A group of warriors is assembled on the outskirts of Ohinemu pa (fortified village) in Rotorua. A group of warriors perform a haka (traditional dance). They hold waka (canoe) paddles above their heads and some have traditional Maori tattoo on their buttocks and thighs. A group of spectators have gathered around the lake shoreline next to beached waka tete (fishing canoe) and a waka taua (war canoe) is tied to a post.
   
   

Signed by Angas

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

Lithograph caption: 'I. Native swing. II. War Dance, before the Pah of Oinemutu near Roturua Lake.'
Plate title: 'Maori or Native Swing. War-Dance.'
Plate: LIII
Notes: Frames reversed in the plate.
Lithographer: JW Giles

Iwi [Tribe]: Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Whakaue, Te Arawa
Location: Taupo, Ohinemutu pa (Rotorua)

Former Accession Number 1615