Te Pehi Kupe, Self-Portrait, 1826. "[It] is the chaieftain's statement of the supreme importance of the tattoo design announcing his rank among his people. Remarkably, [he] created the tattoo patterns from memory, without the aid of a mirror. The splendidly composed insignia, presented as a flat desing separated from the body and even from the head, is Te Pehi Kupe's image of himself." Gardners 14th ed. p. 13.