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Original Watercolour
There is one original watercolour within this frame.

Notes: The whare whakairo (carved house) is in Pari-Pari, Te Kuiti. The house was noted by Angas on his journey as 'one of the finest examples of painted and carved meeting houses still in existance in New Zealand' at that time. The house displays speckled Kowhaiwhai (traditional scrolled painted patterns) in the rafters, tuktuku (lattice work) panelling in the porch and intricately detailed carvings. In this house the right corner of the porch has been fenced and considered to be wahi tapu (sacred burial site) which is restricted. A wooden kumete (bowl) sits in front of an intricately carved amo (upright support post) on the right.

Signed by Angas

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

Lithograph caption: 'Ancient carved whare. or warm house. Pari-Pari. Oct 17. 1844.'
Plate title: 'Ancient carved house at Pari-Pari'
Plate: 41
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Iwi [Tribe]:
Location: Pari Pari-Te Kuiti

Former Accession Number 1529(2)