A. Charles Heaphy, ‘Waitapu (holy water) Coromandel-Chief’. Watercolour and pencil on paper, ca 440 × 290 mm. Hochstetter Collection Basel, HCB 1.4.7; Nolden and Nolden 2011: 33. B. Chromolithograph by Arno Meermann, proof print of frontispiece for Hochstetter (1863; 1867). Note: This watercolour was the source image for the frontispiece in Hochstetter’s Neu-Seeland (1863) and New Zealand (1867), where he described the subject as follows: ‘The frontispiece of this work gives us an idea of the half-civilized state in the very exterior of a still living chief. He wears European shirt and neck-lace, over it his Maori mantle, in one hand a gun, in the other a Maori weapon, the mere of nephrite. The albatros[s] feathers of old in their head-dress are supplanted by those of a peacock’ (Hochstetter 1867: 215).

 
 
  Part of: Nolden S, Grenfell HR (2024) Ferdinand Hochstetter’s trip to Coromandel and Waiheke Island, 7–13 June 1859. Papahou: Records of the Auckland Museum 58: 3-25. https://doi.org/10.32912/papahou.58.143694