Original Watercolour
There is one watercolour within this frame.

Notes: Akanui is the nephew of Reretawhangawhanga of Ngati Awa, a principal chief of Waikanae. Akanui stands holding a taiaha (long club fighting staff) and wears a bunch of blue feathers in his right ear. Over the top of his blue and white sailor's jersey he wears a korowai-ngore (cloak) with black twisted thrumbs, fringing and red woollen pompoms and stitching fastened with a simple cloak pin. Te Aorere is seated and wearing a yellow and black cape known as tihetihe, a shark's tooth ear pendant and a feather in his hair. Behind them are two birds in flight and a harakeke (flax plant) in flower.

Signed by Angas

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

Lithograph caption: 'Akanui. Te Aorere. A young man of Taranaki. Akanui nephew of Reretauangawanga principal chief of Ngatiawa, one of the guides and fellow traveller with TS Forsaith Protector of Aborigines during his overland journey from Wellington to Auckland'
Plate title: 'Akanui and Te Aorere'
Plate: 21
Notes:

Iwi [Tribe]: Ngati Awa
Location: Taranaki

Former Accession Number 1473