Original Watercolour
There are eight original watercolours within this frame. Captions and notes are as follows:

• '(Ko te Hameme) Girls name'
  
  
• '(Ko Patara) Mans name Nga Ti Awa Tribe.'
  
  
• '(Ko Tatu Youths name'
  
  
• 'Koroai) Name of girls garment'
  
  
• 'Korirangi Name of mans garment'
  
  
• '(Pahopo) Name of youth's garment'
  
  
• 'Port Nicholson. August, 1844.'
  
  

Names and description are in handscript.

Notes: A young girl named Te Hameme is seated with a string of large blue beeds around her neck, greenstone (nephrite jade) ear pendant, tattooed bottom lip and a kakahu (cloak) heavily decorated with black twisted thrumbs as fringing along its edges. Patara stands holding a staff in his right hand, he has a moko (traditional Maori facial tattoo) and streaks of red ochre across the top of both his cheeks. He wears a greenstone pendant in each ear and hei-tiki neck pendant. He is wearing a European shirt with two kakahu (cloak) over the top. The first has thrumbs which have been scraped and dyed black as well as red and blue woollen pompoms. The second is a shorter cape made like a pui pui made from cylindrical flax tags that have also been scraped and dyed. Tatu, a young boy, stands wearing a blue European shirt and a ngore-paheke (cloak) with red and blue woollen stitiching, pompoms and fringing.

Signed by Angas

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

Lithograph captions: '(Ko te Hameme) Girls name'; '(Ko Patara) Mans name. Nga Ti Awa Tribe.'; '(Ko Tatu Youths name'; 'Koroai) Name of girls garment'; 'Korirangi Name of mans garment'; '(Pahopo) Name of youth's garment'; 'Port Nicholson. August, 1844.'
Plate title: 'Te Hameme, Patara and Tatu'
Plate: 9
Notes:

Iwi [Tribe]: Te Ati Awa.
Location: Port Nicholson the old colonial name for Wellington

Former Accession Number 1477