• w/c on white cart.

• 144 × 114 mm.

• NMNZ Collection FA 2199

• Purchased from the Artist by the NZ Govt, 1905

Inscriptions

Recto: (w/c, R's hand) lower left corner

“Pipi”

Verso: (ink, R's hand) upper page

“old woman 1864/tatued forehead/upper lip/chin/Ngaiterangi tribe/Bay of Plenty”

Robley Album: (ink, R's hand)

“36/old woman Pipi Ngaiterangi tribe/1864/tatued forehead/both lips, over upper lip,/chin,/G. Robley”

• w/c on white cart.

• 158 × 118 mm.

• NMNZ Collection FA 832

• Purchased from the Artist by the NZ Govt, 1905

Inscriptions

Recto: (w/c, R's hand) bottom centre

“Tehoko”

Verso: (ink, R's hand) centre

“Tauranga/1864.”

Robley Album: (ink, R's hand)

“37/Tehoko/Maori woman 1864/G. Robley”

• w/c on white cart.

• 110 × 102 mm.

• NMNZ Collection FA 1891

• Purchased from the Artist by the NZ Govt, 1905

Inscriptions

Recto: (w/c, R's hand) lower left

“Tauranga”

Verso: (ink, R's hand) upper page

“Elizabeth Faulkner/Tauranga”

(ink, R's hand) lower page

“Elizabeth Faulkner/1865/half caste/Tauranga”

Robley Album: (ink, R's hand)

“34/ Elizabeth Faulkner/ ½ caste/ tatued lips/ Tauranga 1865/G. Robley.”

• w/c on white cart.

• 120 × 108 mm.

• NMNZ Collection FA 2150

• Purchased from the Artist by the N.Z. Govt, 1905

Inscriptions

Robley Album: (ink, R's hand)

“32/Portrait of an old woman 1864/with tatus of some past time/G. Robley.”

• w/c on white paper

• 170 × 170 mm.

• sign.: (ink) lower right “H.G. Robley”

• HBAGM Collection MMC 827

• Presented by Lady McLean, Napier, 1930's

Inscriptions

Recto: (ink, R's hand) right margin [↑]

“Uncommon in North Island”

Supplementary sheet of paper (attached to W/Mt.)

(ink, R's hand)

“Maori old woman — who has got the beginning/of the men's tattoo on face -/ (1) on forehead the radiating lines “Tiwhana”/ (2) viz. over upper lip “hupe” = nasal discharge/ (3) on chin centre of the “kauae” pattern/year 1865 East Coast Maketu/H.G. Robley.”

• w/c & ink on white cart.

• 260 × 227 mm.

• sign.: (ink) lower right “H.G. Robley”

• date: (ink, R's hand) lower right “1885”

• NMNZ Collection FA 1700

Inscriptions

Recto: (w/c, R's hand) lower centre

“Erena belle of Maketu”

Verso: (ink, R's hand) upper centre

“October 1865/close to Sea gate Maketu”

(w/c, R's hand) lower centre

[sketch of chin moko]

• w/c on white paper

• 229 × 185 mm.

• HBAGM Collection MMC 145

• Presented by Lady McLean, Napier, 1930's

Inscriptions

Verso: (ink, R's hand) upper left

“3.”

72a. Erena, Belle of Maketu
National Museum of New Zealand

• w/c on white paper

• image: 175 × 158 mm.

• support: 325 × 205 mm.

• sign.: (ink) centre right “H.G. Robley”

• Canterbury Museum Collection E-121-9

• Presented by Sir Robert Heaton-Rhodes M.P., 1921

Inscriptions

Recto: (ink, R's hand) bottom

“tattooing &/Portrait of Erena the belle of Maketu East Coast 1865/7”

Verso: (ink, R's hand) lower right corner

“17.”

• w/c on white paper

• image: 145 × 115 mm.

• support: 325 × 205 mm.

• sign.: (ink) lower right “H.G. Robley”

• Canterbury Museum Collection E-121-9

• Presented by Sir Robert Heaton-Rhodes M.P., 1921

Inscriptions

Verso: (ink, R's hand)

[sketch of eyebrows & hotiki (forehead moko)] “Arawa woman/1865.”

• w/c, ink & pencil on white cart.

• 242 × 212 mm

• sign.: (ink) lower right “H.G. Robley”

• ATL Picture Collection A80/9

Inscriptions

Recto: (w/c, R's hand) lower left

“Erena”

Verso: (ink & w/c, R's hand)

[sketch of moko & tiki]

• ink/wash & w/c on white paper

• 165 × 110 mm.

• sign.: (ink) lower right “G. Robley”

• ATL Picture Collection A 80/34

• Provenance: Donne/Fuller; purchased from Webster estate, 1970

Inscriptions

Recto: (ink, R's hand) lower page

“Erena of Maketu/Arawa”

Notes: Accession cards for e) & f) refer to Erena as being Erana (Ellen) Tupaea, but give no indication as to the source of that information. Hori Tupaea (known also as Hori Kingi Tupaea), the Tauranga chief who joined Paimarire in 1865 and was hunted by the Arawa under Major William Mair, was Ngaiterangi, not Arawa. [Fildes: 1921. p. 89.]

“Hori Tupaea [was] chief of Whanau a Tauwhao … and paramount chief of Ngaiterangi.” [Matheson: 1979 p. 35]

Reproductions

“Moko; or Maori Tattooing” [Robley: 1896] figure 30 (photograph)

• w/c on white paper

• 117 × 117 mm.

• sign.: (w/c) lower right “H.G. Robley”

• HBAGM Collection MMC 819

• Presented by Lady McLean, Napier, 1930's

Inscriptions

Verso: (ink, R's hand) top centre

“Ngaiterangi woman 1865/td 2 radiating lines/on the forehead./outline of nostril tattoo/Lips/Chin/Corner of mouth/[sketch]/H.G. Robley.”

• w/c on white paper

• image: 125 × 105 mm.

• support: 325 × 205 mm.

• sign.: (ink) lower right “H.G. Robley”

• Canterbury Museum Collection E-121-9

• Presented by Sir Robert Heaton-Rhodes M.P., 1921

Inscriptions

Recto: (pencil, R's hand) lower left corner

“34”

Verso: (ink, R's hand) lower left corner

“Ngaiterangi woman/1864”

• w/c on white paper

• image: 120 × 95 mm.

• support: 325 × 205 mm.

• Canterbury Museum Collection E-121-9

• Presented by Sir Robert Heaton-Rhodes, 1921

Inscriptions

Recto: (w/c, R's hand) bottom

“The Tattooing and/Portrait of a Ngaiterangi woman/1864/18”

Verso: (ink, R's hand) bottom

“woman/ngaiterangi tribe/having unsual tattooing/1864/H.G. Robley/18.”

• w/c on white paper

• image: 167 × 138 mm.

• support: 325 × 205 mm.

• sign.: (w/c) lower right “H.G. Robley”

• Canterbury Museum Collection E-121-9

• Presented by Sir Robert Heaton-Richards M.P., 1921

Inscriptions

Recto: (pencil, R's hand) bottom

“No. 36/ -/Tattooing of a woman 1864”

Verso: (ink, R's hand) centre

“Tattooing/and portrait/of an old Ngaiterangi woman 1864/[sketch]/at corner of mouth/No. 36.”

• w/c & pencil on white paper

• image: 122 × 135 mm.

• support: 327 × 260 mm.

• sign.: (ink) lower right “H.G. Robley”

• AIM Collection PD48 (36)

Inscriptions

Recto: (ink, R's hand) bottom left

“-No. 37-”

Verso: (ink, R's hand) bottom

“-No. 37/ — a woman Ngaitterangi tribe — 1864.”

• w/c on white cart.

• 119 × 171 mm.

• sign.: (ink) lower right “H.G. Robley”

• Tauranga Museum Collection (no class.)

• Provenance: J.C. Adams Collection (see notes)

Inscriptions

NB: the Verso of this work was not sighted

Notes: “[This is one of the] 2 Ngaiterangi women of Tauranga — brought to me for drawing — extra tattooing — you can have [w/c, now in Tauranga Mm] for £1.” [Robley-J.C. Adams: 1927 ATL MS16/9]

73a. Ngaiterangi woman, 1865
Hawkes Bay Art Gallery & Museum.

• w/c on white cart.

• 192 × 159 mm. (sight)

• sign.: (w/c) lower right “H.G. Robley”

• HBAGM Collection MMC 161

• Presented by Lady McLean, Napier, 1930's

Inscriptions

Verso: (ink, R's hand) whole page

“Page 35 Moko women's Tattooing/old time/Maori girls said to the Missionaries wives/“we really must have a/few lines on our lips, else when we grow old/our lips will shrivel/up and we/shall be ugly”/Portrait of a/Portrait/old ngaiterangi woman/29 Dec. 1865 — taken at the sports -/has beginnings of old time/tattooing/of face decoration/drawn from life/29 Dec. 1865/- old style of women ornamentation/ — part on forhead has beginnings of 6 bands “Tiwhana”/-design over upper lip (completed)/“Ngutu-pu-rua”/-partly on chin “kauae”/Fig. 31 copied into “Moko”/tattooing of women/syned (sic.) H.G. Robley.”

• w/c on white paper

• image: 164 × 136 mm.

• support: 325 × 205 mm.

• sign.: (w/c) lower right “H.G. Robley”

• Canterbury Museum Collection E-121-9

• Presented by Sir Robert Heaton-Rhodes M.P., 1921

Inscriptions

Recto: (ink, R's hand) bottom

“with Hupe: nasal discharge: name of this tattooing 16/Tattooing of a woman 1864 Ngaiterangi.”

Verso: (ink, R's hand) bottom

“Tattooing/and portrait/of an old Ngaiterangi woman 1864/note these lines are on male faces/ie on the forehead is the beginning of the 8 [?] bands/“Tiwhana”/on upper lip = “Hupe”/“chin” = “kauae” 16.”

• w/c on white paper

• image: 135 × 115 mm.

• support: 325 × 205 mm.

• sign.: (w/c) lower left “H.G. Robley”

• Canterbury Museum Collection E-121-9

• Presented by Sir Robert Heaton-Rhodes M.P., 1921

Inscriptions

Recto: (pencil, R's hand) lower left

“36”

Verso: (ink, R's hand) lower left corner

“Ngaiterangi woman/1864”

• w/c on white paper

• image: 148 × 114 mm.

• support: 325 × 205 mm.

• sign.: (ink) lower right “H.G. Robley”

• Canterbury Museum Collection E-121-9

• Presented by Sir Robert Heaton-Rhodes M.P., 1921

Inscriptions

Verso: (ink, R's hand) bottom

“No. 37/old woman Ngaiterangi tribe/portrait taken 1864 (Decr)/she has part of mans tattooing (forhead tiwhana) upper lip Hupe/chin Kauae.”

• w/c & pencil on white cart.

• 241 × 197 mm.

• sign.: (w/c) lower right “H.G. Robley”

• ATL Collection A80/2

Inscriptions

Verso: (ink, R's hand) whole page

“Portrait/woman of the/Ngaiterangi tribe/Bay of Plenty/1864 has beginnings of/forehead 8 bands — “tiwhana”/Hupe “over upper lip -/both lips tattooed “He Ngutu Pu Rua”/a decoration on chin “kauwae”/- Blue Lips -/(Sydney Parkinson artist with Capt. Cook/wrote “of the women their lips were/in general stained of a blue colour.”

• w/c on white cart.

• 197 × 180 mm.

• AIM Collection PD48 (37)

Inscriptions

Verso: (ink, R's hand) whole page

“Old Ngaiterangi woman 1865 -/has curious tattooing like man's/6 lines on forehead/upper lip pattern “Hupe”/[sketch]/blue lips/[sketch]/pattern on chin.”

• w/c on white paper

• image: 157 × 133 mm.

• support: 326 × 200 mm.

• sign.: (w/c) centre right “H.G. Robley”

• AIM Collection PD48 (35)

Inscriptions

Recto: (ink, R's hand) lower left

“No. 36”

Verso: (ink, R's hand) lower page

“No. 36/Old Woman of the Ngaiterangi tribe/portrait 1865/has some patterns of tattooing/begun, like a mans/viz. part of the 8 bands on forehead “tiwhana”/under nose “hupe”/on chin “kauae”.

74b. Old Ngaiterangi Woman, 1864
Canterbury Museum

• w/c on white cart.

• 210 × 173 mm.

• sign.: (ink) lower right [↑] “H.G. Robley”

Tauranga Museum Collection (no class.)

Provenance: J.C. Adams Collection (see notes)

Inscriptions

Verso: (ink, R's hand) whole page

“Ngaiterangi woman/29 Decr 1865/has old decoration on face/viz. part begun of bands on forehead “Tiwhana” [sketch]/over upper lip “Hupe”/both lips “Ngutu Pu Rua”/partly on chin “Kauae”/copies into “Moko” Fig. 31/Hupe

Notes: [This is one of the] 2 Ngaiterangi woman of Tauranga — brought to me for drawing — extra tattooing — you can have [w/c, now in Tauranga Mm] for £1.” [Robley-J. C. Adams: 1927 ATL MS16/9]

Reproductions

• “Moko; or Maori Tattooing.” [Robley: 1896] figure 31

• “The Maori in European Art.” [Bell: 1980] plate 61

• w/c on white cart.

• image: 158 × 150 mm.

• support: 222 × 172 mm.

• sign.: (w/c) lower right corner “H. Robley”

• Canterbury Museum Collection E-121-9

• Presented by Sir Robert Heaton-Rhodes M.P., 1921

Inscriptions

Recto: (ink, R's hand) top

“100 Years Ago”

(ink, R's hand) lower page

“Old Chieftainess dressed for/the Tangi — wearing the Jewel of the/Maori ≡ shark tooth — Mako Mango — left ear ≡/greenstone — Kapehu — right [ear]/[greenstone] Pekapeka/Tiki — facing left/[Tiki] — [facing] right/& Huia Feathers”

Notes: This work is probably an ‘imaginative creation’, based on personal experience in the 1860's and on reproductions Robley sighted subsequently.

75. Old Chieftainess dressed for the Tangi
Canterbury Museum

• w/c on white paper

• 168 × 136 mm.

• HBAGM Collection MMC 820

• Presented by Lady McLean. Napier, 1930's

Inscriptions

Recto: (ink, R's hand) lower centre

“Old Chieftainess”

Note: Robley has used the ‘Pataka at Wairoa’ (Cat. No. 28) as a background for this portrait. The woman's name is not not [sic] recorded.

• black w/c & ink/wash white cart.

• 198 × 312 mm.

• sign.: (ink) lower right “G. Robley”

• ATL Manuscript Collection T.E. Donne Scrapbook

• Accn. No.: 83–197/2

• Provenance: Donne Collection

Inscriptions

Recto: (ink, R's hand) lower left

“Maketu women 1865”

(ink, Donne's hand) upper right

“Showing two ways in which the tikis are/ worn — One suspended by the right arm/ The other from its head — One/ of the women is wearing a mako/ shark's tooth in right ear and a/ bunch of white feathers in the/ left — The other woman/ has a sharks tooth and/ a jade pendant — / drawing by Major/ General Robley.”

Mt. Recto: (ink, R's hand) centre [↑]

“The wearing of the Green by G.R.”

(ink, Donne's hand) centre [↑]

(refers to their hei tiki)

• w/c & ink on white cart.

• 134 × 177 mm.

• NMNZ Collection FA 825

• Purchased from the Artist by the N.Z. Govt, 1905

Inscriptions

Robley Album: (ink, R's hand)

“40/ Maori girl/ the tatu line over right half of the upper lip/ was not finished/ G. Robley 1864”

Reproduction.

“Moko; or Maori Tattooing”. [Robley:1896] figure 40.

• w/c on white cart.

• image: 242 × 171 mm.

• support: 252 × 178 mm.

• ATL Picture Collection A 80/1

Inscriptions

Verso: (w/c, R's hand) upper centre

“The favourite/ of the village”

(ink, R's hand) centre

“not tattooed”

• black w/c & ink/wash on yellow paper

• 221 × 175 mm.

• ATL Picture Collection E28/2

• Provenance: Webster Collection; purchasted Bethunes Auction, 1966

Inscriptions

Recto: (ink, R's hand) lower centre

“The Maori Girl.'

• w/c on white cart.

• 156 × 238 mm.

• NMNZ Collection FA 857

• Purchased from the Artist by the N.Z. Govt, 1905

Inscriptions

Verso: (pencil, ? hand) centre

“sick girl/ woman with/ commenced tattoo on forehead.”

Robley Album: (ink, R's hand)

“42/ a sick girl/ sketch at Oponui (sic.)/ woman with/ commenced tatus on forehead/ G. Robley.”

Note: Opounui is on the [Tauranga] harbour coast of Matakana Island. (see also Cat. No. 24.

80. The Maori Girl
Alexander Turnbull Library

• w/c on White cart.

• image: 253 × 188 mm.

• support: 263 × 195 mm.

• sign.: (ink) lower right “H.G. Robley”

• Canterbury Museum Collection E-121-9

• Presented by Sir Robert Heaton-Rhodes M.P., 1921

Inscriptions

Verso: (ink, R's hand) top

“Young Maori Woman”

Mt. Recto: (ink, R's hand) bottom

“Maori girl wearing rain mat/ sharks tooth ornament/ “mako mango”/ — greenstone ear drop/ “kuru”/ H.G. Robley/ 19.”

82b. Maori woman, tattooed
Auckland Public Library

• w/c on white cart.

• 276 × 224 mm.

• sign.: (chinese white) lower centre “H.G. Robley”

• APL Collection NZ Prints 591

Inscriptions

Verso: (ink, R's hand) centre

“Maori woman/ tattooed; 2 lines/ over upper lip;/ called “(hupe)”/ and a pattern on/ the chin (kauae)/ it is curious this chin tattooing resembles that of the/ women in the Soudan (sic.) -/ N. Zealand”

(pencil, R's hand)

[sketch of Maori portrait head]

Supplementary sheeet: (ink, R's hand)

“Maori/ woman/ tattooed 2 lines/ called/ “Hupe”/ over upper lip -/ and/ design on chin “kauae” (kauae)/ portrait of tattooed woman/ a copy presented Queen Margharita at Rome/ King Humberto accepted portrait in 1902/ a Maori dried head in the Museum Rome/ the King accepted a copy of my 'Moko or Maori tattooing' Book/ then the Queen wanted one for her library/ (presented)/ H. G. R./ N. Zealand.”

• w/c, ink & pencil on white cart.

• image: 170 × 132 mm.

• support: 175 × 137 mm.

• sign.: (ink) bottom right “G. Robley”

• ATL Picture Collection A 80/49

• Accn. No.: 78–641

Inscriptions

Verso: (ink, R's hand) centre

[sketch of woman's kauae (chin) moko]

• w/c & ink on white cart.

• 124 × 93 mm.

• NMNZ Collection FA 1889

• Purchased from the Artist byt the NZ Govt, 1905

Inscriptions

Robley Album: (ink, R's hand)

“44/ 45/ Chin tatued/ lips not yet done/ portrait taken amongst/ kauri gum diggers at stores/ Te Papa/ 1865/ G. Robley.”

Reproduction.

“Moko; or Maori Tattooing.” [Robley:1896] figure 38.

83 “Moko; or Maori Tattooing” figure 38

84. Tangi over a woman, Matapihi
“Illustrated London News” (17/2/1866)

• w/c & pencil on white cart.

• 137 × 236 mm.

• NMNZ Collection FA 746

• Purchased from the Artist by the N.Z Govt, 1905

Inscriptions

Robley Album: (ink, R's hand)

“2/ Tangi 1865 over a woman/ Matapihi G. Robley/ sketched on the spot.”

• w/c on white paper

• 207 × 272 mm.

• sign.: (w/c) lower right “H.G. Robley”

• HBAGM Collection MMC 809

• Donated by Lady McLean, Napier, 1930s

Inscriptions

Verso: (ink, R's hand) 3 paper labels, affixed

“for set of pictures, Maori collection by H.G. Robley signed.”

“Deceased Woman/ feather in her hair/ laid on a mat (with a border/ outside Wharre (sic.)/ H.G. Robley/ drawn from life/ picture was copied in the Illustrated London New.”

“Tangi over a/ woman crying by mourners, drawn from life. Matapihi, 1865.”

84c. Tangi at Matapihi over a woman (1865)
Canterbury Museum

• w/c on white cart.

• image: 168 × 247 mm.

• support: 193 × 254 mm.

• Canterbury Museum Collection E-121-9

• Presented by Sir Robert Heaton-Rhodes M.P., 1921

Inscriptions

Recto: (w/c, R's hand) bottom

“Tangi at Matapihi over a woman. See Over”

Verso: (ink, R's hand) lower page

“Sketch of a Tangi or mourning/ Maori women were the principal speakers/ and performers in turn for the days or time/ the deceased was laid out in state.”

Mt. Recto: (ink, R's hand) lower page

“Maori/women were always the Chief mourners/ the custom was in days gone by — that they should/ cut themselves with sharp shells, or obsidian, till/ they streamed tears of blood — sometimes/ tattooing dye was applied to the wounds thus/ perpetuating the signs of their grief/ (drawn on spot) H.G. Robley.”

Notes: “[Tangi at Matapihi] represents a Maori funeral ceremony with the laid out corpse of a woman of rank among the people of her tribe. The body dressed in its best array of mats, with head and hair decorated with a number of pigeon feathers, is reposing in the mahau, or porch, of a native house that has a low door, and drapings of dark blankets hanging from the ridge boards. A lamentation for the dead, or tangihangi, is being performed by the village people, who will continue thus until burial three or four days later. They are shown sitting and standing about the marae… while around the foot of the couch, known as an atamira, are the parents and husband of the deceased.” [Fildes:1921. p. 100].

Reproductions

‘Illustrated London New’ 17 February, 1866