Surveyor and artist Charles Heaphy painted this picture of waka (canoes) on the Pelorus River based on a sketch by E. J. Wakefield, probably made when Wakefield visited the valley in 1839. The setting is probably near present-day Canvastown.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference:
A-145-007
Watercolour by Charles Heaphy
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