[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :Taupo pa / George French Angas. J W Giles lithog. 1847.

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Title

[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :Taupo pa / George French Angas. J W Giles lithog. 1847.

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Collection

TAPUHI

Description

Scene depicting Taupo pa (present day Plimmerton). Shows on the rise in the right foreground a wahi tapu, or sacred place serving as a receptacle for goods and property that have become subject to the law of tapu for a certain length of time. The wahi tapu is constructed of sticks and contains household utensils, skins, calabashes and dried fish, and a garment suspended beneath flutters in the wind. In the right distance behind the wahi tapu is the bay "about a mile from Porirua". Several c...

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Format

Image

Date created

1844 - 1847

Creator

Giles, John West, 1801-1870

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22858489

Locations

Plimmerton / Taupō Pā

Related subjects

Māori (New Zealand people) / Social life and customs / Food / Dwellings / New Zealand / Wellington Region / Pā / Waka / Phormium tenax / Kete / Gourds / Plimmerton / Taupō Pā

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