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[Scraps from my sketchbook]

[Scraps from my sketchbook]

C.D. Barraud. Del. G. M.c Cullock Lith.
C.F. Kell Lithographer, Castle S.t Holborn, London. E. C. [1877]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 550 x 425mm (22 x 16¾"), very large margins.
From plate 6 of Barraud's 'New Zealand graphic and descriptive', London, 1877. Showing 14 scenes from Maori life. Reading from top left: Te Raku [Maori man poling a laden canoe along a river]; Whata [Maori provision house on low poles]; Te Rangatira [Maori man o horseback]; Bird catcher; Maori whare [wharenui with carved entrance porch]; Fishmonger; Rubbing noses "Tena-koe" [a man and a woman, both carrying produce, hongi-ing]; Maori hack-race in full costume [horse race by a man wearing nothing but a long shirt and a woman in elaborate hat and European dress]; Maori woman going to a tangi; Going to market [a woman and a man with a child on his back leading a pig]; Travelling [a man in bowler hat and feather cloak leading a horse, accompanied by a dog]; One of the old Wellington Police force [head and shoulders portrait of a man with full moko and Police uniform]; Gathering pipis [women and children on a beach with flat kete digging up seafood]; Te Kiore [a seated man with kiwi feather cloak, moko, a pipe in his mouth, a blanket under the cloak].
[Ref: 61506]  £260.00


 

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