English: TOEA, DAUGHTER OF TE AWAITAIA, CHIEF OF WAINGAROA, WITH AN ATTENDANT BOY CARRYING WATER. The boy who is approaching from between one of the palisaded avenues of. In her ear is a bunch of albatross feathers, which are worn as an ornament. She is represented in the accompanying portrait wearing a beautiful variety of flax-mat, of the finest sort, which has been dyed of a dark purplish colour by means of a decoction of hinau bark. TOEA is the daughter of Te Awaitaia or William Naylor, the Christian Chief of Waingaroa, on the West Coast.
