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Village a l'Anse de l'Astrolabe (Nouvelle Zelande).

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Date

[1833]

Artist

Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801-)

Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image Link

https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23223125

Additional Makers

Lithographer: Louis Frederic Villeneuve (1796-1842) Figures by: Jean Victor Adam (1801-1867)

Description

A beach-side Maori kainga, with a row of whare and two war canoes, one being pulled into the water, the other already launched.

Published in: Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe...sous le commandement de M. Jules Dumont d'Urville...Atlas, vol. 1. Pl. 38. Paris: J. Tastu, 1833.

Based on a watercolour held in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, by L. A de Sainson, painted during his visit to New Zealand with Dumont d'Urville aboard the Astrolabe in 1827. Astrolabe Bay is in the Nelson Region and now forms part of the Abel Tasman walkway

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Image Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library

Location

Astrolabe Roadstead, Tasman, New Zealand

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