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Canoe with two topsides on Whanganui River

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Date

[1840s 1914?]

Artist

Thomas William Downes (1868-1938)

Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image Link

https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22685196

Description

A copy of a drawing by John Alexander Gilfillan, dating from the mid-1840s, showing a settlement beside the Whanganui River, with several low whare, a picket fence, a niu pole and a large canoe at the water's edge. The canoe has a mast and furled sail and carved prow and stern. There are several people on the boat and on the shore and pigs near the water's edge. A small dugout canoe is drawn up beside the larger canoe.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Location

Whanganui River, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand

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