A pencil sketch of Te Rauparaha by Charles Heaphy in the forties.

A poi dance, painted by Edward Markham in 1834. Trade blankets instead of native cloaks had evidently come into use by this date.

A striking engraving of the head of 'Natai,' a Bream Bay chief, from the 'Atlas' (1833) of the 'Astrolabe' expedition.

A Maori warrior - also from the French costume book of 1796. It is interesting to compare such versions of the appearance of the Maori with those of later artists.

Maori in a canoe, as they appeared to Tasman in 1642. The Maori look like Dutchmen and their canoes like Dutch boats! This is one of the earliest drawings ever made of Maori by Europeans.

John savage, surgeon of a ship which called at the Bay of Islands for spars in 1805, drew 'Tiarrah, a Chief of the Bay of Islands.'

A Maori woman. This plate is taken from a costume book of 1796, 'Moeurs, Loix et Costumes des Sauvages de la Nouvelle Zelande et de la Baye Hudson' by M.J. Grasset Saint-Saveur. Probably the artist was a little confused between the Indian and the Maori when he drew the picture.