This engraving of a Māori warrior from Poverty Bay is a copy of a drawing by Sydney Parkinson from 1769. He holds both a short-handled and a long-handled weapon. The short one appears to be either a mere pounamu (greenstone club) or a patu onewa (stone club), while the long-handled weapon is a tewhatewha.
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Hand-coloured engraving after a drawing by Sydney Parkinson
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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