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| Keywords: Pencil and watercolour sketch of Wiremu Kingi Maketu.jpg Head and shoulders portrait of a young Maori man wrapped in a blanket He was Maketu Waretotara the son of Ruhe a Waimate chief 1842 pencil watercolour Size mm 222 177 National Library of New Zealand cite book Steven Oliver Story Maketu Wiremu Kingi http //www teara govt nz/en/biographies/1m5/maketu-wiremu-kingi Dictionary of New Zealand Biography 1 1990 object history exhibition history credit line place of creation Maketu was tried for multiple murder at the Bay of Islands in November 1841 and executed in Auckland on 7 March 1842 There is another portrait of him on page 141 of the album with his statement on page 101 In the British Library is another version in pencil in the Grey Album Add Ms 19953 f 78 pl 218 and a watercolour in the same Album f 45 pl 132 In addition there is a copy by Edward Shortland in the Hocken Library PD-old-100 Ref E-216-f-011 Alexander Turnbull Library Wellington New Zealand http //natlib govt nz/records/22736195 Uploaded with UploadWizard Files from the National Library of New Zealand Maori in art | ||||
