The Te Pahi silver medal, presented by Governor King of New South Wales to Te Pahi [Tippahee] a Chief of New Zealand, 1806, maker unknown, New South Wales, inscribed and dated 'Presented / By Governor King / to / Tippahee / a Chief of New Zealand / during his Visit at / Sydney N S Wales / Jany 1806' recto; inscribed 'In the / 46th Year of the Reign / of George the Third / by the Grace of God / King / of the United Kingdoms / of Great Britain / and / Ireland' verso, 4.5 cm diameter. Provenance: Te Pahi (Nga Puhi), Te Puna, Bay of Islands, Aotearoa/New Zealand. (possibly) John Peter du Moulin, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Dr Edward Joseph Brooks du Moulin (1856-1900), Dubbo, New South Wales. By descent. Private Collection, New South Wales. Literature: Despatch, Governor King to Earl Camden, 15 March 1806, in J.F. Watson (ed.), Historical Records of Australia, Series 1, Vol. V (July 1804 - August 1806), Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, Sydney, 1915, p. 659 'New Zealand Natives', King Papers, in F.M. Bladen (ed.), Historical Records of New South Wales, Vol. 6 (King and Bligh 1806 1807 1808), Government Printer, Sydney, 1898, p. 6. R.A.A. Sherrin and J.H. Wallace, Early History of New Zealand, H. Brett, Auckland, 1890, p. 127. Robert McNab, From Tasman to Marsden: A History of Northern New Zealand from 1642 to 1818, J. Wilkie & Co., Dunedin, 1914, p. 106. Anne Salmond, Between Worlds: Early Exchanges between Maori and Europeans 1773-1815, Viking, Auckland, 1997, p. 355. Tim Flannery (ed.), The Explorers, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1998, p. 103 Leslie J. Carlisle, Australian Historical Medals 1788-1988 (incorporating Australian Commemorative Medals and Medalets from 1788), the author, Sydney, 2008, p. 3. Vincent O'Malley, The Meeting Place: Maori and Pakeha Encounters, 1642-1840, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2012, p. 49. Geoffrey Sanborn, Whipscars and Tattoos: The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, and the Maori, Oxford University Press, New York, 2012, p. 3
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