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not correspond very well with the representation by Sutherland, 

 which is the picture of Rauparaha most commonly met with, 

 and which is copied from a drawing in Shortland's " Southern 

 Districts of New Zealand." Power's portrait is somewhat like 

 Gilfillan's in outline, and the general shape of the molco marking 

 is much the same ; but the drawing has evidently been carelessly 

 made, or the engraver has been at fault. It is possible that the 

 author, W. Tyrone Power, D.A.C.C., may have taken his copy 

 from this very sketch by Gilfiilan. for in his preface to his book 

 he acknowledges that some of the sketches used as illustrations 

 were by Gilfiilan, and he asks pardon for publishing them with- 

 out permission specially given. On comparing the drawing 

 with K. L. Sutherland's well-known picture, reproduced in several 

 works, and pronounced by the late Hon. J. W. Barnicoat, M.L.C. 

 (one of the party in the Wairau massacre), to be an excellent 

 likeness, one finds many points in common ; but, as Suther- 

 land's is side face and Gilfillan's three-quarters, the latter natu- 

 rally shows more of character, whilst any one will see at a glance 

 that in the former the Maori type is not sustained — in fact, one 

 would say that the face was entirely European were it not for 

 the bunch of feathers suspended as an eardrop, and the tattoo- 

 ing. It is very noticeable that Sutherland was not able to grasp 

 the subtle lines of Maori features, for in his drawing of Rangi- 

 haeata we have the European cast of countenance again strongly 

 portrayed. The moho markings were evidently unfinished on 

 the great chief, and all three pictures give the main outlines 

 much the same : but in Sutherland's, also, the various markings 

 have been carelessly made, and cannot be compared with Gil- 

 fillan's for accuracy. The chief seems to have been wearing the 

 same ear-pendant when both portraits were taken, but it is 

 noticeable that the arrangement of the hair is entirely different 

 in both. In this respect Power's picture and Gilfillan's coincide, 

 but Sutherland's is evidently faulty. Wakefield mentions Rau- 

 paraha having sat for his portrait to Major Heaphy, but that 

 gentleman did not publish the result with the rest of his draw- 

 ings, some of which were issued in a pictorial supplement to 

 Wakefield's " Adventures in New Zealand." Angas, the artist, 

 does not appear to have had any success when he was at Kapiti 

 about 1844. He states in " SaA r age Life and Scenes " that he 

 failed in his attempt to paint Rangihaeata, so, I presume, 

 thought it useless to try and persuade the superior chief to sit. 

 In Thomson's " Story of New Zealand " it is stated that in 

 1844 Tamehana Rauparaha had a portrait of his illustrious 

 father hanging in his house at Otaki, but so far as I can gather 

 this picture has never been reproduced. It would be super- 

 fluous to give a detailed account of the life of this remarkable 



