Original Watercolour
There is one original watercolour within this frame.

Notes: Taonui is seated wrapped in a European blanket and wears a sailor's hat, smoking a pipe. He has a moko (traditional Maori facial tattoo). His wife Niapo and the infant that sleeps on her back are wrapped in a korowai-ngore (cloak) that features black twisted thrumbs and red and blue woollen stitching which forms a border along its bottom edge. She smokes a pipe and wears a tuft of white feathers in her right ear. Tatau, their oldest son, stands behind his mother wearing a strand of blue beads.The family is portrayed in front of a meeting house that has red and black kowhaiwhai (symbolic scrolled patterns) painted on its porch rafters and two carved figures referred to as the koruru and tekoteko attached to the apex of the maihi (sloping barge boards).

The carved figures are very similar to those seen on the house of Te Rangihaeata on Mana Island.

Signed by Angas

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

Lithograph caption: 'Tatau. Youngest son of Taonui. Niapo. His wife. Taonui. Principal chief of all Mokau. Kiahari Tribe. Oct 17. 1844.'
Plate title: 'Taonui, Niapo and Tatau'
Plate: 35
Notes:

Iwi [Tribe]: Kiahari
Location: Mokau

Former Accession Number 1517