This item is restricted.

Original Watercolour
There is one original watercolour within this frame.

Notes: The scene depicted is a Wahi tapu (sacred burial site) which is restricted. Angas refers to the architectural structure in this scene as a pataka (enclosed and elevated store house) and noted that its content contained personal articles such as clothing of the recently deceased Chief Atarapaua (Ahutaphanua). The main body of the structure was crafted from the hull of a waka (canoe). The outer surface painted with the red and black symbolic patterns referred to as kowhaiwhai, the maihi (sloping barge boards) also have the painted kowhaiwhai patterns but with the addition of a speckled white border. Below the carved tekoteko at the apex of the maihi is a realistic human figure and above him a bird. These observations painted by Angas are his only record of Maori art painted in a European style. Title from mount. 'Tomb of a Chief. Cook's Straits'

Signed by Angas

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

Lithograph caption: 'Te Whata of Ahutaphanua. Ko Kaihinu. Pa. At Arapaua or Queen Charlottes Sound'
Plate title: 'Pataka at Kaihinu Pa'
Plate: 49
Notes:

Iwi [Tribe]: Ati Awa
Location: Kaihinu pa on Arapawa Island in the Queen Charlotte Sound

Former Accession Number 1503