Painting for Love –at 80!

Painting for love is Miss Ida Carey of Hamilton. She skips about the country painting, and recording for posterity, portraits of Maori ladies who have the Moko, or tattooed chin.

When it is observed that tattooing among the Maori people died out many years ago and that not many of Miss Carey's subjects are still around, one can understand when Miss Carey intimates that she has no time to waste. Her paintings are given to museums and art galleries so that some permanent record can be kept of a people and its customs.

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While Miss Carey says she only paints the moko there are exceptions to the rule. While in Gisborne recently she also did a portrait of Mrs Hine Sutherland and with this she is shown.

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Two examples of Miss Carey's fine work.