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(77) Ko Mihi

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Date

[1845]

Description

A sitting profile portrait of a Maori woman. She wears her hair in a bun, an ear adornment of ribbon with a tooth, and smokes a pipe. Her European dress is blue. She holds a book, and possibly a writing implement, in her right hand. Hutton describes her as: 'Ko Mihi - an oldish woman of the Waikato.'

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Image Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library

Location

Waikato District, Waikato, New Zealand

Country

New Zealand