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Inside the stockade with natives outside.]

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Date

ca. 1850

Artist

Richard Aldworth Oliver (1811-1899)

Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image Link

https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23144905

Description

Shows a Maori man and woman at the far left, standing outside a whare with carved tekoteko figure. Behind the whare is a palisade and to the far right a waka is being launched into the sea.

This work has also been know as 'Meeting house and stockade'

A third foreground figure has been pencilled in beside the couple at the left, but has not been completed.

This painting was used as the basis for 'Stranger's house (Houraki Pah)', Plate 5 in R A Oliver's 'A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand' (London, Dickinson Bros, 1852)

Title from letter of authentication on backing board (accompanies painting in same folder).

See also B-189-013 by R A Oliver ('Ihawera'), possibly showing the same woman dressed in striped shirt, knotted scarf and red blanket

Other Titles - Meeting house and stockade

Other Titles - Stranger's house (Houraki Pah)

Image Licence

All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library

Location

Hauraki District, Waikato, New Zealand

Country

Tags

Huts
Cottages
People
Fashion

Category

People & Society

TWW Comment

The Pa's location is identified as the bottom of the Hauraki Gulf. Falling into decay by 1852. (https://natlib.govt.nz/records/37296998)

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