![Rāpata Wahawaha [Major, NZC]](https://cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/lindauer/assets/media/rapata-wahawaha-image.jpg)
![Hōri Kerei Taiaroa [Hon, MLC]](https://cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/lindauer/assets/media/hon-hori-kerei-taiaroa-mlc-image.jpg)
![Wiremu Tako Ngātata [Hon, MLC]](https://cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/lindauer/assets/media/wi-tako-ngatata-image.jpg)
![James Carroll [Hon, MLC, later Sir]](https://cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/lindauer/assets/media/hon-sir-james-carroll-image.jpg)
![Hōne Heke Ngāpua [MHR]](https://cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/lindauer/assets/media/hone-heke-image.jpg)
![Pakewa [previously identified as Te Rangipikinga]](https://cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/lindauer/assets/media/kuinioroa-daughter-of-rangi-kopinga-te-rangi-pikinga-image.jpg)
![Waata Kukutai [Major]](https://cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/lindauer/assets/media/major-waata-kukutai-image.jpg)
Welcome to Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki’s website dedicated to Gottfried Lindauer’s celebrated portraits of 19th century Māori rangatira: men and women who continue to inspire today. This is a place for their stories.
We invite you to explore their fascinating histories along with Lindauer’s other paintings imagining Māori life.
Read the heartfelt comments of Māori tūpuna and viewers in the Visitors’ Book, listen to interviews with descendants, learn about how Lindauer made the paintings, and contribute your comments and engage in discussion.
Pukapuka Manuhiri
Visitors' Book
The Lindauer Art Gallery Māori Visitors’ Book is a remarkable document. Spanning the years 1901 to 1918, it contains hundreds of poignant comments written in te reo Māori by visitors to the gallery.
This extraordinary record provides a window into Māori engagement with their tūpuna through the Partridge Collection. See their handwritten stories, and read the original responses or their translations.
Ngā reta
Correspondence
Invitation card to The Lindauer Art Gallery
c1911Invitation
Letter to Henry Partridge from John Logan Campbell and William Swanson
08 October 1896Letter (Correspondence)
Letter to unknown recipient from Hone Tuhata
30 July 1901Letter (Correspondence)
Telegram to Henry Partridge from T E Donne
15 March 1904Telegram (Correspondence)
