• Title
  Kingi Tawhiao, 1884, photographer Henry King, Sydney
• Creator
  Henry King, 1855-1923
• Call number
  P1/1772
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1884
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs
• Reference code
  900621
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - photograph 30.1 x 18 cm, panel 33 x 19 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For a biography of Tawhiao, Tukaroto Matutaera Potatau Te Wherowhero, ? - 1894
  Maori King, Waikato leader, prophet, see: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/ (accessed July 12, 2010)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
• Variant title
  
  "Tiawhiao, Maori King" -- titled on the photograph
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Tiawhiao (BM), July 2010
  Digital order no:Album ID : 937289
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "To His Majesty King Tawhaio, Dear Sir & Brother, It is with a feeling of great pleasure that we your Brother Templars of New South Wales hear that you are making a short stay in Sydney previous to your proceeding to the land of your fathers. I am instructed by the Grand Worthy Chief Templar and the Executive of the Grand Lodge of New South Wales to invite you to attend a meeting of Templars to be held in the Temperance Hall, Pitt Street, Sydney on Saturday evening next at Eight O'Clock, as we wish to give you a hearty welcome as a Brother Templar. I shall be about if you would inform the Bearer of this letter if you would be able to accept this invitation so as to enable us to notify our members in the Metropolitan District the fact of your visit. I am dear Sir & Brother, Fraternally Yrs in Faith, Hope & Charity, James B. Price, G W Secretary" -- on Temperance Society of New South Wales letterhead, dated 9 October 1884, attached to the reverse
  
  "Tuawhiao - witnesses to Signature of Maori King, John E. M. Browne, Mason Anderson" -- signature in ink on a scrap of paper attached to the lower edge of the letter
  
  Photographer's stamp
• Date note
  
  H. King had premises at 316 George Street, Sydney, 1880-1894.
  In 1884 Tawhiao led a delegation to England to plead the Maori cause
• Name
  Tawhiao, Tukaroto Matutaera Potatau Te Wherowhero, d. 1894
  
• Subject
  Indigenous peoples - Pacific - Maori
  Portraits.
  
• Topic
  royal families
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Mirror with a Memory : photographic portraiture in Australia - National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (3 March - 11 June, 2000)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE222588

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