Original Watercolour
There is one original watercolour within this frame. Captions and notes are as follows:

The New Zealanders XII

1. 'Ongi'
   
   
2. 'Old woman at Te Mutu making basket of the leaves of Freycinetia banksii.'
   
   
3. 'Slave preparing food.'
   
   
4. 'Interior of a house at Rangihiaeta's pa. Woman making mats.'
   
   
5. 'Tangi. On Waikato River near Taupiri.'
   
   
6. 'Ongi.'
   
   

Notes:

1. The cook house is at Kaitote on the Waikato River. Two women are in the foreground greeting each other with a hongi.
   
   
2. An elderly woman weaves tawara (Freycinetia banksii or kiekie plant) into a basket.
   
   
3. A women is scraping potatoes with a mussel shell.
   
   
4. Two women weaving in a house at Rangihaeata pa [fortified village] in Porirua.
   
   
5. When two women greet they tangi (welcome cry) and then Hongi.
   
   
6. Two women at Taupiri on the Waikato River are performing a hongi (pressing noses) which follows a tangi.
   
   

Signed by Angas

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

Lithograph caption: 'Domestic sketches.'
Plate title: 'Domestic economy: women making mats, &c.'
Notes. The watercolours are unnumbered. The captions are as follows:

• 'Ongi'
  
  
• 'Old woman at Te Muto, making baskets of the leaves of Freycinetia Banksh.'
  
  
• 'Slave preparing food'
  
  
  
• 'Interior of a house at Rangihireta's Pah (woman making mats)'
  
  
• 'Fangi'
  
  
• 'Ongi'
  
  

Plate: LIX
Lithographer: JW Giles

Iwi [tribe]: Tainui
Location: Kaitote, Te Mutu, Porirua, Taupiri

Former Accession Number 1608