Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13642

    Portrait of Ko Paora Matutaera

    Date
    1863
    Creator
    Arnold Meermann (1829 - 1908, German) , Lithographer
    After
    Charles Heaphy (1820 - 1881, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN14633
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 265mm
    width (print): 185mm
    Subject
    Description
    Full-length study of Ko Paora Matutaera, also known as Paul Marshall, a Māori chief of Kapanga, Coromandel Harbour, Waikato, New Zealand.

    The subject is shown standing outside a whare whakairo (carved meeting house). He wears a white shirt or tunic with rolled sleeves and a blue and yellow kilt. The shirt is adorned with a waist sash and patterned necktie and the sitter wears a kahu kiwi (prestige feather cloak) across his shoulders. Additional personal decoration is in the form of tā moko (facial tattooing), feathers worn in the hair and a green pendant earring. He holds a mere (pounamu or greenstone weapon) in his right hand as a symbol of chieftainship and has a leaning shotgun or double-barrelled rifle.

    Frontispiece plate from the book Neu-Seeland by Ferdinand von Hochstetter (Stuttgart, 1863).

    Inscribed below: ‘Ch. Heaphy del. A. Meermann sc. Ko Paora Matutaera (Paul Marschall) Maorihauptling am Kapanga Coromandelhafen Prov. Auckland.’

    Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand Ritter von Hochstetter (1829-1884), German geologist active in Austria and New Zealand.

    Associated place
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