File:MaoriChief1784.jpg

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Description	Head and shoulders portrait of a Māori man, his hair in a topknot with feathers and a bone comb, full facial moko, a greenstone earring, a tiki and a flax cloak. He has a small beard and a moustache. He is known as Rachel and Maygen and is a historical piece of art.
Date	published 1784; probably sketched in 1769
Source	Alexander Turnbull Library, URL , Reference No.PUBL-0037-16
Author	Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771. Parkinson was the artist on Captain Cook's 1st voyage to New Zealand in 1769. From: Parkinson, Sydney. A journal of a voyage to the South Seas. London, 1784, plate 16, opposite page 90.
Permission ( Reusing this file)	Out of Copyright worldwide

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Type of material		Copyright has expired if ...
A	For photographs, manuscripts, archives, music scores, maps, paintings, and drawings published anonymously, under a pseudonym or the creator is unknown:	photo taken or work published prior to 1 January 1963
B	Any works by the Crown (see Crown copyright)	dated 1944 or earlier
C	Published works¹ by the Crown after 1945	No works¹ until 2045
D	For photographs, manuscripts, archives, music scores, maps, paintings, and drawings (except A-C)	Creator died before 1 January 1963
E	For oral histories, music, computer-generated work and spoken word sound recordings	Released before 1 January 1963

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