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Banquet given at Wellington to Native Chiefs of New Zealand, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Banquet given at Wellington to Native Chiefs of New Zealand, 1850. '...an Entertainment lately given...by Dr. Fitzgerald...on the occasion of having received from Earl Grey a portrait of her Majesty Queen Victoria...At the head of the apartment, over the chair, was the portrait of her Majesty...Underneath were two splendid native war spears, forming...a triangle, from the apex of which a magnificent "mere pounamia," or greenstone club, was suspended; these, being emblems of New Zealand chieftainship, were intended to represent the cession of sovereignty to her Majesty the Queen. On each side of the picture were two meres (greenstone clubs) intended to represent their support of her Majesty's Government...The Chiefs were all dressed in European costume, with the exception of two, who, instead of coats, wore very handsome "kaitaka" mats; they behaved with great decorum...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A34_021

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NA

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

45,9Mo (5,1Mo) / 42,0cm x 27,4cm / 4960 x 3237 (300dpi)

Mots clés

food people male interior man men country local guy British room New Zealand native dinner location Victorian century Colonial empire Britain inside guest guests newspapers press speech North Island Wellington B&W banquet greenery engraved engraving Maori maoris banquet hall settler 19th century Indoors black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector banqueter banqueting hall British Empire colonialism colonisation Illustrated London News TGN ILN James Aotearoa indigenous newspaper settlers indigenous people Unknown Queen Victoria Victoria Fitzgerald George Grey Earl Grey Alexandrina Victoria Empress of India James Edward Queen of Great Britain and Ireland George Grey coloniser banqueters colonisers 19th-century James FitzGerald James Edward FitzGerald Sir George Grey