Description
Shows the ornately carved frontage of a storehouse on two poles, with a notched climbing pole for access. In the left background sit a Maori man and women with a cooking pot and a dog in front of a large whare. There is a wooden enclosure fence with carved posts at the right and behind, including one human figurehead, a pipe in his mouth. There are woven bags of food possibly kumara stacked beneath the storehouse. Mount Egmont, its height and symmetry exaggerated, is in the background
Lithograph, entitled "Wata or Provision house at Otumatua" (neg. 1/2-150220-F), was made by an unknown lithographer, after this watercolour, and included as an illustration in Wakefield, E. J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London, 1845).
A watercolour by Heaphy in the Hocken Library, Dunedin, is titled by the artist 'Gateway at Otumatia Pa'. The correct form of the name is not known
Other Titles - Wata or provision house at Otumatua. Pa.
Image Licence
All Rights Reserved
Image Credit
Alexander Turnbull Library
Location
Cape Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand
Country
New Zealand
Tags
Category
People & Society
TWW Comment
Otumatua was built on a projecting point between two small bays or indentations of the coast--New Zealand Journal, Volume 2, H. H. Chambers, 1841(https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=d3Q6AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA266&lpg=PA266&dq=Otumatua+Pah,&source=bl&ots=V-jd6p6HwP&sig=ACfU3U2PLzNpyWHFOOheBxt_Zbvf4928ag&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5iPWtw473AhUFY8AKHVkfDucQ6AF6BAgZEAM#v=onepage&q=Otumatua%20Pah%2C&f=false)
