Original Watercolour
There is one original watercolour within this frame.
Notes: Pu stands with her two sons Roro and Toa and her infant. Pu and the infant are wrapped in a korowai-ngore (cloak) made with black twisted thrumbs, red woollen pompoms and stitching along the border. Both boys are wearing a pake (rain cape). Roro is seated and has a pied fantail bird, attached to his right ear.
Signed by Angas
Lithograph
The original has been used in Angas's The New Zealanders.
Lithograph caption: ' A woman and her sons of Nga Ti Toa Tribe. Porirua Cooks Straits'
Plate title: 'E Pu and her children.'
Plate: XIV
Notes: On lithograph: 'E Raro E Toa E Pu'
lithographer: W Hawkins
Iwi [Tribe]: Ngati Toa
Location: Porirua pa, Cook's Straight
Former Accession Number 1494