H., M. A.;
A Drawing of the Head of Bola, a New Zealand Chief
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1829
Watercolour on paper
135 x 100mm (image); 600 x 410mm (frame)
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An engraved version of this image forms the frontispiece to George Bennett, ‘The Mode of Preparing Human Heads Among the New Zealanders’, Journal of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 2 (1831): 215–222.
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1990–
Fletcher Trust Collection, purchased from John Leech Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau, September 1990
–1990
Unknown