item details
NameTe Rangi Topeora
ProductionEdward Smallwood Richards; photographer; 1862-1870; Wellington
Classificationcartes-de-visite, albumen prints, photographs, black-and-white prints, studio portraits
Materialssilver, albumen, printing-out paper, mounting board
Materials Summaryblack and white photograph, carte-de-visite
Techniquesblack-and-white photography, albumen process, printing-out
DimensionsImage: 58mm (width), 84mm (height)
Registration NumberO.004282
Overview
Studio portrait of Te Rangi Topeora, a leader of Ngati Toa, as an older woman. She is wearing two kaitaka (cloaks) with the taniko borders at the top, and feathers in her hair. She has two tiki, a pekapeka and a whakakai-taringa suspended around her neck on a cord.