Places

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers

Reference: qMS-0209

Description: Tuhoe tribal narrative, religion, mythology, waiata moteatea, and whare-tapere practices. Tribal narrative of Ati Hau-nui-a-Paparangi including genealogies. Includes Polynesian/Maori Voyages (ie. Kupe) and the story of Takitimu Waka. Also very detailed sketches by major-general Robley (1840-1930) of Ta Moko designs and their names, probably modelled on Mokomokai. Information on the historic heke: Te Amiowhenua ca. 1819. Original place-names for Wellington given by Rangi Te Puni a daughter inlaw of Te Puni of the te Ati Awa. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1921-1922

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers

Reference: qMS-0214

Description: Polynesian/Maori Voyages & Mythologies; Tawhaki/Christian parallels; the New Zealand Wars and Hauhauism. Includes information on Maori Divinatory Rites, Maori Fishing Methods, Maori Games and the Moko-Mokai Collection of Major General Robley. Finding Aids: Index at qMS-0215.

Date: [1864-1926]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MSY-8204-8205

Description: Notebooks containing research notes: - relating to 'Whakatane Pas' [various pa in the Whakatane area] including Te Teko Pa and Rauporoa Pa. Contains sketches of landmarks including Rauporoa Pa, Mt Putauaki and Te Teko Pa. - focussing on the Urewera and central North Island, particularly relating to the New Zealand wars, history of battles, history of particular pa and individuals from Urewera, Whakatane, Rotorua and Taupo areas. Includes sketches of pa sites and sketches of Netana Whakaari of Waimana, focussing on his facial moko. Also includes waiata including 'Rewi's song at Aratitaha' relating to the defence of Orakau Pa. Language - Contains some Maori content, particularly waiata and place names. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: 53 in original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 2 notebooks.. Sketches of pa and other landmarks including of Rauporoa and Te Teko pa, and Mount Putauaki.. Some sketches of moko, pa and a sailing vessel. Processing information: Reference number changed following re-housing. Title and description updated 30 November 2022.

Date: 1864

Reference: A-080-034

Description: Shows a head and shoulders portrait of a young Maori woman wearing huia feathers and moko. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - G Robley Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, ink and wash 164 x 110 mm Provenance: Donne/Fuller

Date: 1918-1921

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers

Reference: qMS-0213

Description: Ngati Raukawa ki te tonga defeated at the Battle of Kuititanga 1839 by Te Ati Awa on Waikanae Beach. Kupe's anchor discovered at Paremata along with ancient middens. Government opposition escalating in the Hutt Valley; Te Rangihaeata and his followers comprising Ngati Toa and others are hunted and gunboats patrol in Porirua Harbour. Includes information on the Wairau Incident; the Tauranga Campaign 1863-66, and the dispersal of Moko-Mokai to overseas institutions by Major General Robley. Finding Aids: Index at qMS-0217.

Date: 1865

Reference: B-139-016

Description: Shows a warrior with moko on his face and right shoulder, and with "puhuro" tattoo (ie moko paeturi) on his thigh, in grass skirt, performing a haka, holding a taiaha in his right hand. He grimaces with the tongue extended. Behind him is a palisade fence (of Maketu Pa), and a gateway made of an old canoe set up and carved, with a large painted head showing the "moko" of the tribe. (This description of the gateway is taken from a description of a very similar work described in Sotheby's auction catalogue, 15 February 1990, lot 120). Gateway in imitation of a human portrait is unusual. However, it is thought that this gateway is now in Auckland Museum. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - H. G. Robley; Recto - bottom left - [Title] Similar to other Robley works. See file print of work in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. See also file print of "Maori sentry on the gate at Maketu, South Auckland". ATL also has a Robley work showing a large group of Maori performing haka outside Maketu gateway, but the face on the gateway is much more the usual carved tiki. ATL also has in file drawers a photographic copy (Neg 1/2-041838-F) of a sketch of a Maori man performing a haka, holding a rifle instead of a taiaha. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 280 x 231 mm (sight)

Date: 1911-1913

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers

Reference: qMS-0210

Description: Maori Customary Concepts, Religion and tribal narratives including Hauhauism, Karakia, Makutu, and mara-kumara. Includes the capture and illegal imprisonment without trial of Te Rauparaha onboard HMS Driver. Also information on Ta Moko practices, Natural History and the Christchurch Exhibition 1906. Finding Aids: Index at qMS-0217.

Date: July 1982

From: [Posters and other ephemera of A3 size relating to Maori issues. 1980-1984]

By: Wellington Media Collective

Reference: Eph-C-MAORI-1980/1984-01

Description: Poster illustration shows the tā moko of Te Pēhi Kupe and an arrangement of text. Includes dates and locations of events held on 12 July to 14 July, 7:30pm at Wesley Lounge, Red Cross Rooms, Cannons Creek Community Centre. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 420 x 297 mm. Processing information: Description and title update 1 December 2023. Previous reference: Eph-C-MAORI-1982-01.

Date: 1923-1931

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers

By: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842

Reference: qMS-0216

Description: 1870 Government census of Ngati Toa; Te Ati Awa ki Waikanae and Whareroa, and Ngati Raukawa ki te Tonga with the names of Ngati Toa's principal chiefs and the death notice [1924] of the Ngati Toa chief Hanikamu Te Hiko. Polynesian/Maori Voyages; Maori origins; Tuhoe Whare Tapere traditions, and the Waikato Wars. Comprises information on the Kingitanga debate to send Maori troops into World War One; Te Kooti's re-interment and the sale of Major General Robley's collection of Moko-mokai to the New York Metropolitan Museum. Paper on Kai Tahu Maori vocabulary and dialect. Speculative article on the Spanish Helmet dredged up from Wellington Harbour 1906. Includes D'Urville's narrative on Otago and his interaction with Kai Tahu Maori. Report on the Kaingaroa rock carvings and Maori Death Customs. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Index at qMS-0217.

Date: 1864

Reference: A-080-009

Description: Portrait of a Maori woman with straight hair cut in a fringe. She has moko on her lips and chin and a tiki at her neck. Part of a pa or kainga is visible in the background Date conjectured from similar portrait of Erena by Robley, dated 1864, in possession of M. Seifert. April 1979. Compare A-080-034, another copy of the same portrait, titled, Erena of Maketu, Arawa. Maketu is near Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, and Arawa is a reference to Erena's tribe. Compare also Richard Laishley's pencil drawing Erana (Ellen) wife of Haora Tapaea, Tauranga, 1885 (A-114-013). Robley may have copied Laishley's drawing Other Titles - Erana Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Erena; Recto - bottom right - H G Robley Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 245 x 213 mm

Date: 1864

Reference: A-080-016

Description: Shows a tangi, with a small crowd gathered outside the front of a whare, around a body in white cloak. In left foreground is a Maori with feather cloak, spear, and facial moko. Beyond him a woman with a small child is seated on the ground. Other figures sit and stand. Title, date, and signature all in different ink. Other Titles - Tangi over a woman. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - H. G. Robley; Recto - bottom right - A TANGI at / 1864 Matapihi; Verso - top centre - family / Tangi over a woman / Matapihi Bay of Plenty / Decr 1864.; Verso - centre - There was a tangi / over a warriors spear I drew / Sepr 1864; Verso - bottom centre - Reproduced in "Illustrated London news" 17 Feb.1866. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink 197 x 294 mm. Provenance: Vendor had purchased from Dunbar Sloane, 29.11.1987.

Date: 1841-1843, 1880-1882 (transcribed 2014)

By: Laslett, Thomas, 1811-1887

Reference: MSDL-2285

Description: Electronic transcription of Thomas Laslett's New Zealand journal (4) by Meri Low with support from Dr Neville Ritchie and David Wilton. The transcription was commissioned by the Department of Conservation and completed in September 2014. This transcribed journal was one of three journals re-written by Laslett in 1878-1881 from his original diaries from his four visits to New Zealand in 1833-1834, 1837-1838, 1839-1841, 1841-1843. The journals contain original drawings from the original diaries. On his first voyage, Laslett was carpenter on the HMS Buffalo assisting the Surveyors. And was Timber Inspector for the Admiralty on the HMS Buffalo for three voyages and the HMS Tortoise for the last. The journals contain full descriptions of the ship parties' activities, including descriptions of places, Maori villages, Maori practices, disputes between Maori and between Maori and the ship's party, timber collecting practices including employment of Maori labour, problems between crew and officers, European population, and descriptions of flora. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Provenance: Transcription commissioned by the Department of Conservation

Date: [1870s-1880s]

By: Norris, Joseph Foxley, active 1880s; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893

Reference: PA1-q-094

Description: Photographic album created by Joseph Foxley Norris, with many images of places visited in Great Britain, including castles, cathedrals, stately homes, ports, landscapes, and bridges. Joseph Foxley Norris was a founding member of the Cyclists' Touring Club in England, and was a member of the Pickwick Bicycle Club in England with one image being a group portrait of members of the club. A number of the English scenes were photographed by G.W.W. (George Washington Wilson). Other regions visited include Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. Views of New Zealand are mostly in the South Island, with a few of Wellington (including Government Buildings, Parliament Buildings and Government House). One photograph taken by James Bragge shows a group of unidentified Maori standing outside a meeting house in Masterton. South Island views include a bicycle "meet" in Christchurch, with a large crowd gathered, and a number of penny-farthing bicycles visible. A number of images show men riding penny-farthing bicycles and the dangers of so doing, with posed views of two men underneath their bicycles and one clutching a fence, taken in and around Christchurch. On page 108 is hand-printed award `Anniversary Sports, Christchurch,N.Z. 16th December 1880. The following ten views taken from the Cathedral Tower, Christchurch, are the 3rd prize in the One Mile Champion Bicycle Race won by J. Foxley Norris, Pioneer Bicycle Club'. Other views include a group of about four men touring along the West Coast Road, and notable buildings in Christchurch and Dunedin. One image shows the "cage" crossing the Teremakau River. A group portrait in Christchurch shows members of Harper & Co. (Solicitors) Inscriptions: Album page - J. Foxley Norris. 1880 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with a black cover, spine title `Photo's'; 29.0 x 24.5 cm