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A Maori camp with men cooking

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Date

[1860s or early 1870s?]

Artist

Attributed to John Gordon Gilfillan (1839-1875)

Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image Link

https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23252770

Description

Shows a group of five Maori men preparing food. They wear cloaks and full moko. Two are seated with their backs to the viewer, on either side of a central steaming cooking pot which one is stirring. Two men in cloaks stand watching them, and one figure at the left is about to cut up a pig (or sheep). There is a basket of gourds at the left behind one of the seated men. A pig stands in the right foreground tied to a peg in the ground. Behind and to the right a cloaked woman holds an infant in front of a pitched tent. More figures and pigs are standing in the background at left and right.

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All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library

Location

New Zealand

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People
Encampments

Category

People & Society

Glossary
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