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Whatas or Patukas. Storehouses for food

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Date

1844

Artist

George French Angas (1822-1886)

Collection

South Australian Museum

Description

There are six original watercolours within this frame. Captions are as follows:
I. Pataka or store for maize. Waiharikeke River.
II. Pataka. at Te Rapa. Taupo.
III. no data
IV. Rangihiaeta's Pataka.
V. Woman beating flax.
VI. Kaka (parrot) on nestor.
The watercolour is divided into three layers. Top left (I) is a simple pataka (enclosed and elevated store house) utilised to store and preserve seeds, maize and roots. There are potato baskets below and raupo reed whare (house). Top right (II) is a more elaborately carved pataka painted in red ochre and decorated with feathers. The second layer is one watercolour comprising IV, V and VI. In between V anf IV is a pataka belonging to the paramount chief Te Heuheu Tukino Mananui II (left) and Rangihaeatta's pataka (right, VI). In between the two patakas is a wharepuni (sleeping house), gourds for carrying and storing water, and kete (basket) hanging from stakes would have contained kumera a sweet root vegetable. To the left (V) is a woman with an infant pounding flax fibre. In the top right hand corner of layer two is a kaka (parrot) on a perch. The third layer (III) are two pigs and an object.
IV. 'Rangihiaeta's Pataka.'
V. 'Woman beating flax.'
VI. 'Kaka (parrot) on nestor.
Credit line: AA8/6/20, GF Angas, South Australian Museum.

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Waiharakeke Stream, Whiritoa, Waikato, New Zealand

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