Skip to content

Home
Search
Your album
Learn more

Images

Wanganui Tupe. [Rangitupu Taketake]

Alexander Turnbull Library | All Rights Reserved

Start Zooming Stop Zooming

Next
Previous
Current search
Add To Album

Date

[ca. 1900]

Artist

Horatio Gordon Robley (1840-1930)

Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image Link

https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22714352

Description

Head and shoulders three quarters frontal portrait of a Maori man, with full moko, earrings, a greenstone tiki at his neck and a fringed flax cloak.

The name Wanganui Tupe is possibly a confusion on the artist's part with Herewini Tupe of Waikanae, but more probably a mistake for the name Rangitupu. The portrait is actually taken from a photograph by W. H. T. Partington of Rangitupu Taketake, taken in the 1890s and reproduced in Photograms of the year. 1896. p. 57. The photograph is heavily retouched, including the removal of wattles under the chin and highlighting of the moko. Robley has copied the retouched version. The three-quarters angle of the face, the horizontal position of the tiki and the arrangement of the fringe on the cloak are all the same as the photograph. See negative 3106 1/1 (copy in Artists' file under Partington).

Image Licence

All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library

Location

Whanganui River, New Zealand

Country

Tags

Portraits

Category

People & Society

Glossary
Search tips

© 2024 Watercolour World | Technology by The Museum Platform

© 2024 Watercolour World | Technology by The Museum Platform