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Biography: Tuai

Silhouette of Tuai, 1818

Silhouette of Tuai, 1818

Silhouette of Tuai, made in London in 1818. The silhouette shows more vividly than any other portrait what Tuai looked like. His profile is distinctive, and he wears the male haircut fashionable in London at the time: tufted in the front. The signature on the portrait is his own.

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Reference: 2006-0014-1/2

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How to cite this page

Alison Jones. 'Tuai', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2018. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/46880/silhouette-of-tuai-1818 (accessed 4 June 2026).