Ob'iavlenie k No 92... (Moscow: Moskovskie Vedomosti, 1835). (ATL ref. Eph-C-MAORI-1835-01) This poster in Russian, a supplement to the Moskovskie Vedemosti (Moscow Gazette) No. 92 in 1835, announces a public exhibition of the Menagerie of Karl Berg and Stefan Eller from Hamburg, at the house of Princess Golitsyna on Tverskaya Street, Moscow, on Sunday 17 November 1835. The exhibition included (translated) 'a major feeding of a snake with live chickens and rabbits, and of a hyena with live pigeons. [Mr] Berg, having entered the hyena's cage, will feed this wild and vicious animal out of his own hands'. There were to be live snakes, monkeys, birds and crocodiles, and other 'natural creations'. Two items displayed are of New Zealand Māori interest: 'tattooed and rubbed with colours, the head of Tipokhe [Te Pahi], a chieftain of cannibals from New Zealand'; and 'various weapons of the wild people of New Zealand'. A preserved head, also purported to be that of Te Pahi, had been displayed in London about 1820. Turnbull has a broadsheet advertising this earlier display (held at A-059- 008). It is unclear if it was the same head that is advertised in this 1835 poster. There is also doubt about whether the head was in fact that of Te Pahi, or if his name was simply invoked because it was familiar to Western audiences.

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 48, 1 January 2016, Page 95

Ob'iavlenie k No 92... (Moscow: Moskovskie Vedomosti, 1835). (ATL ref. Eph-C-MAORI-1835-01) This poster in Russian, a supplement to the Moskovskie Vedemosti (Moscow Gazette) No. 92 in 1835, announces a public exhibition of the Menagerie of Karl Berg and Stefan Eller from Hamburg, at the house of Princess Golitsyna on Tverskaya Street, Moscow, on Sunday 17 November 1835. The exhibition included (translated) 'a major feeding of a snake with live chickens and rabbits, and of a hyena with live pigeons. [Mr] Berg, having entered the hyena's cage, will feed this wild and vicious animal out of his own hands'. There were to be live snakes, monkeys, birds and crocodiles, and other 'natural creations'. Two items displayed are of New Zealand Māori interest: 'tattooed and rubbed with colours, the head of Tipokhe [Te Pahi], a chieftain of cannibals from New Zealand'; and 'various weapons of the wild people of New Zealand'. A preserved head, also purported to be that of Te Pahi, had been displayed in London about 1820. Turnbull has a broadsheet advertising this earlier display (held at A-059-008). It is unclear if it was the same head that is advertised in this 1835 poster. There is also doubt about whether the head was in fact that of Te Pahi, or if his name was simply invoked because it was familiar to Western audiences.