Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Maroon/olive drawing for Black Paintings 69 Hotere; verso original mount in pencil: Maroon & olive drawing for Black Painting Hotere; verso in red crayon: 34.
Lower right (l.r.) in ballpoint pen: Hotere 3-69; l.l. in ink: A day at Murdering Beach with Dibble and Maree; verso labelled: Reserved Rodney Kennedy.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: Woollaston ’58; u.l. on mount: West Coast 17 miles north of Greymouth; verso in ballpoint pen: Destroy or give to the Hocken Library if they would care for it
Upper left (u.l.) in pencil: Charles, Xmas 1951; l.l. in pencil: M.T. Woollaston 1948; l.r. in pencil: Joe at Mapua; verso: [ink sketch crossed out] M.T. Woollaston Boy washing his feet