Description
This is an oil painting by New Zealand artist Charles Frederick Goldie (1870-1947). It measures 99.9 cm x 125 cm and was painted in 1903. It depicts Ina Te Papatahi, a female elder (kuia) from Ngä Puhi (a tribe from Hokianga in the northern North Island). She sits on the porch of a run-down meeting house (wharenui) next to a carved wooden ancestral figure, which is dusty and chipped. Eyes averted, she rests her chin on her hand and smokes a pipe. A blanket is slung across her shoulders.
Acknowledgements
| Copyright | Reproduced courtesy of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa |
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| Creator | Charles Frederick Goldie, artist, 1903 |
| Identifiers | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Number 1991-0001-1
TLF resource R2045 |
| Source | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, http://www.tepapa.govt.nz |
