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"Welcome to New Zealand today"
Photographer: Ben Crawford
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Cape Reinga
There has always been
something special about journeying to the top
– and the
northern end of the North Island is no exception. But there’s
more
to this place
than a geographical landmark. Maori spirits are said to travel
after death to the
pohutukawa tree
on Cape Reinga. Sliding down a root to the underworld below, t
hey head
northward to the ancestral land of Hawaiiki-a-nui. [ L300]
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Reproductions
of early French renditions of Māori
A
selection
By
Brian
Hooker
Under Construction
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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, The Ilene and Laurence Dakin Bequest, |
Title Tableau des Découvertes du Capne. Cook and de la Pérouse (Tableau of the [peoples] discovered by Captains Cook and La Pérouse)
Artist Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Collective Title Tableaux des Principaux Peuples de l'Europe, de l'Asie, de l'Afrique, de l'Amerique; et les Découvertes des Captaines Cook, La Pérouse, etc (Tableaux of the Principal People of Europe, Asia, Africa, America and the [peoples] discovered by Captains Cook and La Pérouse)
circa 1798
Medium hand coloured engraving
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, The Ilene and Laurence Dakin Bequest, purchased 2000.
Curator's Description Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur was born in Montréal in 1757. He was educated in France, where he became a diplomat, serving as French Vice-consul in Hungary and Consul in Cairo. He was also a prolific artist and writer, working on 31 titles in his lifetime. His output ranged
from adventure novels through to ethnographic records of the costumes, cultures and habits of the people of the world.
This large scale engraving was one of five tableaux, printed as part of a publication entitled Tableaux des Principaux Peuples de l’Europe, de l’Asie, de l’Afrique, de l’Amerique; et les Découvertes des Captaines Cook, La Pérouse, etc. Previously Grasset de Saint-Sauveur’s illustrations had consisted
of individual full-length portraits of people in their national dress, usually standing in a briefly described landscape setting. For this publication he adopted a new approach composing a tableau of the people ‘discovered by Cook and La Pérouse’ with a more highly worked landscape in the background.
The resulting work is highly decorative reading like a classical frieze. This reading is enhanced by the decorative border, where festoons have been replaced the sun, tropical birds, fruit, animals, sea creatures, people and a waka. Groups of between two and four figures represent the cultures of the
Pacific basin and are identified by a key at the bottom.
The ‘Habts. de la Zelande (No.2)’ are the second couple from the left in the top row. The figures draw on Grasset de Saint-Sauveur’s earlier depictions of the Sauvagesse and Guerrier (also in the Gallery’s collection, see 1998/15/1 and 4). Never having visited the Pacific, he relied on the illustrated
accounts of explorers, including Captain Cook, often borrowing quite directly. There is also a fair degree of fantasy involved in his representations and technicolour palette, as consideration of the costumes attests. |
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Courtesy National Library of Australia
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Insulaire de la Nouvelle Zeelande [picture]. [178-?] 1 print : engraving, watercolour ; plate mark 18.. Insulaire de la Nouvelle Zeelandeate [178-?] |
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Courtesy
Auckland Museum Library. |
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"Tacouri" The illustration is
Plate 2 in
Julien-Marieb Crozet, Nouveau voyage
à
la mer du sud,
commencé sous les
ordres
de M. Marion [ ... ]; & achevé,
après la mo
r de cetofficier,
sous ceux de M. Duc1esmeur.
Cette
relation a été rédigée
d'après
les
plans et journaux de M. Crozet.
On
a joint à ce voyageun
extrait de celui de
M.
de Survilledans les
mêmes
passages. Paris, Barrois l'aÎllé, 1783
Marion Dufresne
set up headquarters
for his
expedition in the Bay of
Islands.
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Courtesy National Library of Australia.[.pic-an10345477
U6009 NK4001 580]
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Chefs de la Nouvelle-Zelande"
Two portraits captioned: 1. Toui 2. Autre chef.de l'imprimerie de Remond,
1826] 1 engraving, hand col.
Creator Tardieu, Ambroise, 1788-1841. Lejeune et
Chazal delint.; Ambroise Tardieu sculpt. [Paris] : de l'imprimerie de Remond, 1826] engraving, hand col. ;
plate Pl. no. 47 of: Voyage autour du monde /
par L.I. Duperrey. authorsLejeune, L. F. Chazal, Antoine,
1793-1854. Duperrey, L. I. (Louis Isidore), 1786-1865. Tardieu, Ambroise, 1788-1841.
(The border has been
added by the editor.) |
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Sainson, Louis Auguste de 1800
- :Nouvelle-Zelande. 1.2.Vieille
femme et esclave de Wangari. 3.Pako, Chef du Cap Reinga.
4.Tatouage de la Cuisse de Pako. 5.Naturel de Reinga. /de
Sainson pinx[i]t. Maurin lith[ographe]. J. Tastu, Editeur.
Lith. de Lemercier. Pl[ate] 57. [Paris, J. Tastu, 1833].
Reference number: C-010-025
Sainson, Louis Auguste de 1800- :Nouvelle-Zelande. 1.2.Vieille
femme et esclave de Wangari. 3.Pako, Chef du Cap Reinga.
4.Tatouage de la Cuisse de Pako. 5.Naturel de Reinga. /de
Sainson pinx[i]t. Maurin lith[ographe]. J. Tastu, Editeur.
Lith. de Lemercier. Pl[ate] 57. [Paris, J. Tastu, 1833].
Reference number: C-010-025
Portraits of Maori from Cape Reinga and Whangarei districts, with
examples of face and thigh tattooing. The portraits include a
facial portrait of Pako, chief of Cape Reinga, along with his
thigh and buttock moko. Also an elderly woman, a slave and
another man
Historical notes
The Astrolabe visited the north of New Zealand in late February and
early March 1827, with North Cape being reached on 7 March.
Notes
Alexander Turnbull Library holds J.S.C. Dumont d'Urville's "Voyage
de la corvette l'Astrolabe...Atlas, vol. 1 (1833) at fRare
910.4 DUM
Inscribed - Recto - beneath image: Nouvelle-Zelande. 1.2.
Vieille femme et esclave de Wangari. 3.Pako, Chef de Cap
Reinga. 4. Tatouage de la Cuisse de Pako. 5.Naturel de Reinga.;
Recto - top right: Pl.57; Recto - bottom left: de Sainson
pinxt. / J. Tastu.
Editeur; Recto - bottom right: Maurin lith. / Lith. de
Lemercier
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