A head and shoulders portrait of Tomika Te Mutu, chief of Ngāiterangi and Ngāi Tuwhiwhia

A head and shoulders studio portrait photograph of Tomika Te Mutu, Ngāiterangi and Ngāi Tuwhiwhia people of Tauranga Moana looking directly at the camera. He is wearing a European jacket and cravat. He also has a full face Tā moko (tattoo).

Photographer: 'Bought at "Holmes", Auckland, April 17 1865.'

The reverse of the carte de visite contains a handwritten annotation with outdated terms and concepts: 'What a mixture of savage & civilized life! The broad cloth clothes of a European and the tattooed face of a Maori!!