The title of this work when acquired by the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1961, was Maori in whare at Pipitea Pa. However the man depicted bears a strong resemblance to Honiana Te Puni and the dogskin cloak being worn, with a lighter patch on the left front opening, is also very like the cloak shown in Barraud's other portraits of Te Puni. If the subject is Te Puni, the whare in which he is seated is more likely to be at Petone Pa than at Pipitea Pa. The sea and hills behind are also positioned as if from a view from of Petone Pa.

Reference number: B-005-015, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Honiana Te Puni-kokopu. Part of Williams family : Photographs relating to the Williams family (PAColl-8045).

Reference number: 1/2-029567-F, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

On the right is the palisade of Te Puni's pa with the roof of one whare rising above the fence-line and a single high-roofed house on the plain further into the valley on the left. There is a lone male figure, carrying a long spear standing in the middle ground, between two trees.

Reference number: A-190-015, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Scene at the grave of Honiana Te Puni, at Petone, after the Hon. W Nash had laid a wreath in memory of the late chief of the Ngatiawa as a prelude to yesterday's ceremonies. Photograph by an Evening Post staff member.

Reference number: PAColl-5482-004. Part of Evening Post : Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper (PA-Group-00287), Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Attributed to Charles Decimus Barraud by New Zealand researcher, 1989. Used with the kind permission of the National Library of Australia, Reference nla.pic-an2273981

Te Puni is baptised by Rev Octavius Hadfield.

Used with the kind permission of the National Library of Australia, Reference nla.pic-an2273028

E Puni, a Port Nic. [ie. Nicholson] chief, H.M.S. Havannah. A watercolour by Philip Doyne Vigors, 1853?

Used with the kind permission of the National Library of Australia, Reference nla.pic-an2929987

From: Illustrated London news, 9 February 1850, p.84

The event took place on 17 April 1849 in the house of Dr Fitzgerald, next-door to the hospital according to an article in the Wellington Independent, 25 April 1849, p. 3. Dr Fitzgerald was in the chair, with Mr Henry St Hill as vice-chair. Octavius Hadfield was also present, along with Te Puni, Wi Tako and a large group of other Maori men, all listed in the article.

Reference number: PUBL-0033-1850-084, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

R. A. Day & Haghe. London, Smith, Elder [1845]

Reference number: PUBL-0011-04-1, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Pitone Pa, Wellington, 59. Engraved by Henry Melville. Drawn by S C Brees. [London, 1847].

Reference number: PUBL-0020-20-1, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Epuni is represented in the top left.

Reference number: E-455-f-020, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand