Provenance:

John Leech Gallery, Auckland, 5 August 1947, £157.10s. Purchased by current owners family from Webb's, 1984

Illustrated:

New Zealand Herald, 6 December, 1969

Evening Post, 24 July, 1974

The Dominion, 2 August 1974

Evening Post, 2 August 1974

New Zealand Herald, September 21, 1983: Goldie Heading for $100,000. The article showing the painting with art dealer Peter Webb when the work was sold for a then record price at auction.

p. 266 C F Goldie His Life & Painting, Alister Taylor & Jan Glen, Alister Taylor publishing 1977

Exhibited:

John Leech Gallery, Auckland, August 1947

GOLDIE - The Exhibition, 1997 - 1999 Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki, Catalogue no. 132

Hera Pua was the brave wife of Hori Te Whanaunga and fought alongside her husband in the 1865 battle of Orakau in the Waikato. In this work Goldie draws upon sketches and photographs of the subject taken in his youth, creating a compelling portrait of a memorable subject.