Original Watercolour
There is one original watercolour within this frame.

Notes: Both women were of notable descent, nieces of the Rangatira (chief) Te Rauparaha. Wai is seated wearing a red handkerchief over her head as a sign of mourning and wrapped in a European blanket worn as a cloak. She was married to Tuarau who was Angas's guide on his 1844 expedition in New Zealand. The standing figure is Kahoki who is wrapped in ngore-paheke (cloak) that has had red, blue and green woollen stiching. Behind them is the Taupo pa (fortified village), the roof of a whare (house) and a beached waka (canoe). Endorsed with E Wai's signature.

Signed by Angas

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

Lithograph caption: 'E Wai and Kahoki, nieces of Rauparaha'
Plate title: 'E Wai and Kahoki, nieces of Rauparaha.'
Plate: IX
Notes: On lithograph: 'E Wai Kahoki'
Lithographer: W Hawkins

Iwi [Tribe]: Ngati Toa
Location: Rotorua Lakes and Taupo

Former Accession Number 1528(3)