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    Sydney Lough Thompson

    Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1877, d.1973

    Maori Mother And Child

    • 1898
    • Oil on canvas
    • Presented by R. E. McDougall, 1932
    • 770 x 615mm
    • 69/113

    Tags: Maori (culture or style), cloaks, double portraits, earrings (jewelry), infants, jades (objects), jewelry, koru (pattern), moko, mothers, people (agents), tattoos, women (female humans)

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    Archibald Nicoll Twilight Auckland Waterfront 1909. Oil on canvas board. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1984
    Our Collection: 19th and 20th Century New Zealand Art
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