Original Watercolour
There is one original watercolour within this frame.

Notes: Both women are seated in the interior of a whare (house) on woven whariki (mat) wearing korowai-ngore (cloak) that features dyed twisted black thrumbs. The younger woman behind wears a kauwae (traditional Maori woman's chin tattoo) and has a shark tooth and greenstone (nephrite jade) ear pendant. The older women has a shark tooth ear pendant made from greenstone in her left ear and a shark tooth ear pendant in the right. Only her bottom lip is tattooed. The pair are surrounded by woven kete (basket) and three poha (pod) or large vessels made from bull kelp used to store sperm whale oil hang on the back wall.

Signed by Angas on mount

Lithograph
The original has been used in Angas's Portraits of the New Zealand Maori.

Lithograph caption: 'Artongna. Tahuna. Natives of Queen Charlotte's Sound.'
Plate title: 'Natives of Queen Charlotte Sound'
Plate: 12
Notes:

Iwi [Tribe]: Ngati Awa
Location: Queen Charlotte Sound

Former Accession Number 1518