Original Watercolour
There is one original watercolour within this frame.
Notes: Te Taepa is seated in a whare (house), smoking a pipe. He is wrapped in a European blanket that has been fastened at his left shoulder with a cloak pin and red wool. He has a moko (traditional Maori facial tattoo) and a greenstone (nephrite jade) ear pendant.
Signed by Angas
Lithograph
The original has been used in Angas's Portraits of the New Zealand Maori.
Lithograph caption: 'Te Taepa. A chief of Te Kaitutae. A branch of the Nga Timanoki tribe. At Koruakopupu. Waikato. Septr 29 1844'
Plate title: 'Te Taepa'
Plate: 25
Notes:
Iwi [Tribe]: Nga Manoki
Location: Koruakoropo, Waikato
Former Accession Number 1514