[Artist unknown] :[Wiremu Henare Taratoa offers water to Lieutenant-Colonel Booth, 1864. 1860s?].

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Title

[Artist unknown] :[Wiremu Henare Taratoa offers water to Lieutenant-Colonel Booth, 1864. 1860s?].

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Collection

TAPUHI

Description

A depiction of an incident at Battle of Gate Pa, 1864, where Booth was mortally wounded. Shows a Maori man, intended for Wiremu Taratoa, kneeling beside the recumbent figure of Lieutenant Colonel Booth, holding a bowl to his lips. A simplified rendering of the trenches of Gate Pa and a Maori whare and pataka inside a fence are seen in the background, close to a bay in Tauranga Harbour. Cabbage trees are on the right Formerly attributed to Robley. H G Robley's portraits of Wiremu Taratoa, a...

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Image

Date created

1864 - 1875

Creator

Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22332523

Locations

Gate Pā

Related subjects

Taratoa, Henare Wiremu, 1830?-1864 / Booth, Henry Jackson Parkin, -1864 / New Zealand Wars, 1860-1872 / Campaigns / War / Relief of sick and wounded / New Zealand / Race relations / Men, Māori / Naive art / Pā / Cordyline australis / Gate Pā (N.Z.), Battle of, 1864 / Gate Pā

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