▼ About this page

Title: Robley: Te Ropere, 1840—1930

Author: Timothy Walker

Publication details: University of Auckland, 1985, Auckland

Digital publication kindly authorised by: Timothy Walker

Part of: The Moko Texts Collection

Conditions of use

Robley: Te Ropere, 1840—1930

Moko pattern (detail) — ink sketch — Hocken Library MSI 488 — Robley was keenly aware of the wide diversity of patterns within the carved, pigmented areas of moko. Many artists before him had failed to understand the importance of the lines left by the uhi of the tohunga ta moko

Moko pattern (detail) ink sketch Hocken Library MSI 488 Robley was keenly aware of the wide diversity of patterns within the carved, pigmented areas of moko. Many artists before him had failed to understand the importance of the lines left by the uhi of the tohunga ta moko.

Moko pattern (detail)
ink sketch
Hocken Library MSI 488
Robley was keenly aware of the wide diversity of patterns within the carved, pigmented areas of moko. Many artists before him had failed to understand the importance of the lines left by the uhi of the tohunga ta moko.