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Description Head and shoulders portrait of a Māori man, his hair in a tikitiki topknot with feathers and a bone comb, full facial moko, a greenstone earring, a tiki and a flax cloak. He has a small beard and a moustache. Most likely one of the men who visited the Endeavour off Whareongaonga, Gisborne.
Hand-colored engraving by Thomas Chambers after original artwork by Sydney Parkinson, a botanical artist on Captain Cook's 1st voyage to New Zealand in 1769. From: Parkinson, Sydney. A journal of a voyage to the South Seas. London, 1784, plate 16, opposite page 90
Date published 1784; originally sketched in October 1769
Source Alexander Turnbull Library Reference: PUBL-0037-16
Author Thomas Chambers, engraver
After Sydney Parkinson  (1745–1771)  wikidata:Q530787 s:en:Author:Sydney Parkinson
 
After Sydney Parkinson
Description British botanical illustrator, painter, botanist, scientific illustrator, illustrator and zoologist
Date of birth/death 1745 Edit this at Wikidata 26 January 1771 / 27 January 1771 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Edinburgh Indian Ocean
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London (1767–1768) Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q530787
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