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J W Giles (engraver) George French Angas (Artist) 'Entrance to a house at Raroera Pah, Waipa'1847

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J W Giles (Engraver) George French Angas(1822 - 1886) (Artist) Entrance to a house at Raroera Pah Waipa. 1847. 310 x 375mm. From the volume by Angus 'NEW ZEALANDERS ILLUSTRATED'. Angas's description: PLATE XXXVIII. ENTRANCE TO A DWELLING HOUSE AT RAROERA PAH. SOME of the finest Māori works of art still extant, are to be met with in the ruined and deserted Pah of Raroera, about four miles beyond Otawhao, near the River Waipa. In one of the former plates was given a representation of the elaborately carved mausoleum erected in this Pah by the great chief Te Wherowhero, above the remains of his favorite daughter; not many yards from that tomb is the house which forms the subject of the present illustration; differing from the usual style of Māori architecture, with the pointed gable roof, the entrance to this building ....