item details
NameHori Kingi Tupaea (an influential chief of Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand)
ProductionRoyal Portrait Studio; photography studio; 1878; Wellington
Classificationcartes-de-visite, albumen prints, black-and-white prints, portraits
Materialssilver, printing-out paper, albumen
Materials Summaryblack and white photograph, carte-de-viste
Dimensions62, 101
Registration NumberO.005267
Credit lineBequest of the Edwin family, 1966
Overview
Studio portrait of the principal Ngai Te Rangi Hori Kingi Tupaea. This portrait is likely to have beeen taken in 1878 when he visited Wellington to meet with government officials about tribal disputes at Mercury Bay. Tupaea stayed in Wellington as the guest of Premier Sir George Grey.