IDNO

D.14100.VH

Description

Drawings by H. G. Robley of Maori tattoo designs.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Europe British Isles; New Zealand; United Kingdom; England; London [Aotearoa]

Cultural Affliation

Maori

Named Person

Photographer

Robley, Horatio Gordon (Major-General); [Artist]

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

?1914

Collection Name

Von Hugel Collection

Source

Robley, Horatio Gordon (Major-General)

Format

Drawing

Primary Documentation

Other Information

D.14048.VH to D.14102.VH were taken from Box 190 OA4/6/20 in the Paper Archive.
D.14072.VH to D.14102.VH were found in the envelope now numbered C487/.

Publication: Image published in Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia with Linda Waimarie Nikora, 2007. Mau Moko. (Penguin, New Zealand) p.48 with the following caption:
"Horatio Robley, drawing of putaringa, designs close to the ear." [JD 8/7/2014]

The box contains drawings, published articles, manuscripts and letters that relate to Robley’s collection. The manuscripts have been assigned accession numbers related to the photographs in the Museum’s collection, although they should have been formally retained as an aspect of the documentary archive. [A. Henare,
8/6/2002]