[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :Ngeungeu and her son James Maxwell. Plate 3 / George French Angas. W Hawkins. B. W. lithog. 1846.

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Title

[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :Ngeungeu and her son James Maxwell. Plate 3 / George French Angas. W Hawkins. B. W. lithog. 1846.

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Collection

TAPUHI

Description

Standing double portrait of a young woman wrapped in a pom-pom cloak, with kaka-beak flowers in her hair, her son in a kiwi feather cloak standing behind her. According to the associated text, Ngeugneu (spelled thus) was the daughter of Tara (see plate 34) and wife of Thomas Maxwell. They lived on Waiheke Island with several children, until after the death by drowning of her husband, when she returned to her village Omupuia (near Auckland). She was of the Ngati Tai iwi Quantity: 1 colour ar...

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Image

Date created

1844 - 1847

Creator

Hawkins, Benjamin Waterhouse, 1807-1894

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23054667

Locations

Umupuia Beach

Related subjects

Maxwell, Ngeungeu, active 1830s-1840s / Maxwell, James, 1835?- / Women, Māori / Kaka beak / Māori (New Zealand people) / Clothing / Children, Māori / Umupuia Beach

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