Portrait, Mouru Tanatiu
Maker
Burton, The Studio
Current rights
Public Domain
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About this object
The portrait is of Mouru Tanatiu with a moko kauae, wearing a flax korowai and holding a fern leaf. Tanatiu Paora is tattooed along her arm.
Photographer, Burton, The Studio, Hastings.
Date, unknown. Possibly taken in the 1880s and 1890s.
Photographer, Burton, The Studio, Hastings.
Date, unknown. Possibly taken in the 1880s and 1890s.
Maker
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Mounted on card, black and white photograph. Cabinet portrait.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Cabinet print: Height x Width: 138 x 110mm
Photograph: Height x Width: 102 x 66mm
Photograph: Height x Width: 102 x 66mm
Signature/Inscription
4. Museum artefacts collection, Label, Handwritten
Classification terms
Subject period
Current rights
Caption
Collection of Hawke's Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 8915
Other number(s)
8913, 92193
Public comments
No doubt this wahine has to be our bloodline. Facial features are exquisite.
- Jen Kireka posted 5 years ago.