DUBMASTER PhD

Kiaora..
All works in this continuation on ta moko are painted by Gottfried Lindauer.
I must stress that i fully realize once posted these photos are in your hands, from mine, please treat them with integrity and respect. Many Maori would not allow there photos to be taken or portraits to be done as they basically believed their soul would be taken.

Moreover and perhaps more relative the belief that certain individuals collectively wanted to show Maori as a dying race to 'ensure' that Maori 'would' become a dying race.
.This comment is more applicable to Goldie than Lindauer. {ad.13 May.}

Needless to say..Respect to my people..!!



Tūhoto Ariki

This portrait is of Tūhoto Ariki, a renowned tohunga of the Tūhourangi people in Rotorua. Tūhoto was a tohunga ahurewa, a priestly expert.



Tāraia Ngākuti Te Tumuhuia

Tāraia Ngākuti Te Tumuhuia was an important chief of Ngāti Tamaterā. This portrait was based on early black-and-white photographs.



Tukukino Te Ahiātaewa

Tukukino Te Ahiātaewa was one of the 19th-century leaders of Ngāti Tamaterā. Painted In 1878.



‘Tohunga under tapu’
Tapu (sacredness) was a vital part of traditional Māori society. In this painting from about 1902 a tohunga (priest) is being fed because touching food could remove his tapu.



Tāmati Pirimona Marino
This portrait of the Nelson chief Tāmati Pirimona Marino (affiliated to Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Rārua and Te Āti Awa), who owned the trading ship Erena. After the arrival of Pākehā the fortunes of Māori changed; many took advantage of the new economic practices despite occasional conflicts over land boundaries.



Te Horetā
This portrait of Te Horetā, also known as Te Taniwha, was almost certainly painted from a photograph many years after Te Horetā’s death in 1853. Te Horetā was an important chief of Ngāti Whanaunga.



Hōri Ngākapa Te Whanaunga
Hōri Ngākapa Te Whanaunga was an important ancestor and chief of Ngāti Whanaunga, who lived in the Wharekawa district in western Hauraki in the 19th century. He was a supporter of the Māori King movement, and at one stage organised an attack on the young township of Auckland.



Gottfried Lindauer, 1839–1926
Born in Bohemia and trained as a painter in Vienna, Gottfried Lindauer came to New Zealand in 1874 and stayed for the rest of his life. His portraits of Māori and depictions of their life and customs are a vivid record of the Māori people at that time.

Ana Rupene & Child. A favourite of mine...

Rewi Manga Maniapoto.