Angas, George French, 1822-1886 :Domestic sketches. George French Angas [delt]; J. W. Giles [lith]. Plate 59, 1847.

Title:Angas, George French, 1822-1886 :Domestic sketches. George French Angas [delt]; J. W. Giles [lith]. Plate 59, 1847.
Subject:Maori - Pa - New Zealand - Waikato Region; Maori - Food; Maori - Food containers; Maori - Weaving; Wood-carving, Maori; Maori - Social life and customs; Maori - Pa - New Zealand - Wellington Region
Abstract:A group of scenes inside a pa with explanatory text on the opposite page, paraphrased as follows: 1.[Top centre] A sketch a Kaitote on the Waikato showing a cooking house with a couple of elderly women, seated on the ground outside, performing the hongi. 2. [Top left] An aged woman of Te Mutu making a basket of the leaves of the tawara (Freycinetia Banksii). 3. [Top right] A slave woman preparing potatoes by scraping them with a mussel shell. 4. [Centre] Interior of a house at Rangihaeata's pa at Porirua, with women engaged in manufacturing flax garments. 5. [Bottom left] Tangi or crying of welcome; also Hongi detail on the right. Both sketches from life, were made near Taupiri, on the Waikato River.
Geographic Location:Plimmerton; Taupiri
Personal name(s):Giles, J W fl 1847
Addition Description:Angas visited New Zealand in 1844
Format:Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm
Collection:Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.
Reference No. PUBL-0014-59
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