Places

Date: 1864

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: E-372-f-033

Description: Page from the Illustrated London news with sketches of 10 weapons - 1. Small tomahawk (patiti), used for hand-to-hand fighting; 2. Cartouche-box (hamanu) to carry eighteen rounds; 3. Greenstone club or mere, otherwise called poenamu, which is the baton of a chief; 4. Whale bone mere, called papaoa, carried by a band round the neck; 5. Spear (tao) either of hard wood sharpened or with an iron point or a bayonet fixed at the end; 6. Long tomahawk (kakanroa) for thrusting or cutting in a hand-to-hand fight; also used to walk with; 7. Guns (Pu) which are mostly percussion muskets and many were also found which had been taken from our men; 8. A chief's spear (taiaha) ornamented with the breast feathers of the brown parrots; 9. Bayonet (peniti); 10. Club (wahaika) made of hard wood or whalebone and used either to thrust with the small point or to strike with the axelike head. Drawings attributed to Lieutenant Robley of the 68th Light Infantry. Includes article entitled `The war in New Zealand' Other Titles - Arms taken from the Maoris at Te Ranga, New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 380 x 250 mm

Date: 1865 - 1866

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Jackson, Mason, 1819-1903; Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: E-106-f-018-1

Description: Interior view of the pa, with a group of Maori men around a fire in the foreground, two holding spears and two with guns, and other small groups standing and seated in the background near dwellings. A flagpole or signal pole in the background. M Jackson, engraver. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 48, 1866, p. 189 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 175 x 240 mm

Date: 1865 - 1866

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: E-106-f-016-2

Description: A large group of Maori men performing a haka, shown at a moment of leaping in the air. They are carrying a mixture of muskets and spears, and dressed in mixed European and Maori clothing. They are observed by a group of European and Maori men and women, with the artist's self portrait sketching near the centre in the foreground. In the background are low hills of Tauranga with several European buildings and a few military tents. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 48, 1866, p.417 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 165 x 240 mm

Date: 1865 - 1866

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: PUBL-0033-1866-189

Description: Interior view of the pa, with a group of Maori men around a fire in the foreground, two holding spears and two with guns, and other small groups standing and seated in the background near dwellings. A flagpole or signal pole in the background Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 250 x 180 mm

Date: 1864

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: A-033-012

Description: Shows Judea Redoubt close to Gate Pa, Bay of Plenty. Pitched tents on the left and scattered figures in the foreground. There is washing hanging from a clothesline close to the small raupo huts on the right. Mount Maunganui is in the background. Robley named the site from Huria, a Maori village alongside. Explanatory note on back of sketch This watercolour is thought to be the only existing view of Judea Redoubt Other Titles - Judea Redoubt Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 203 x 280 mm

Date: 1865 - 1866

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: E-372-f-019-1

Description: Interior view of the pa, with a group of Maori men around a fire in the foreground, two holding spears and two with guns, and other small groups standing and seated in the background near dwellings. A flagpole or signal pole in the background Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 48, 1866, p. 189 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Initials M J Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 250 x 180 mm

Date: 1864

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: A-033-011

Description: A three-quarter length portrait of Taratoa seated on a hillside in front of a palisade fence on the skyline 60 paces away. A flag flies on the flagpole by the fence. The flag has a red background, with (top left to bottom right) a Christian cross, an inverted new moon, and a 5-pointed star. Taratoa wears a rural European grey smock and bark (grey?) neckerchief. Based on a photograph. Robley is not thought to have met Taratoa Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - H G Robley; Recto - bottom left - The flagstaff 60 paces in rear; Verso - Portrait of Taratoa lay preacher (Selwyn), a Ngaiterangi chief killed at Te Ranga 21 June 64 / whose name is on the RAWIRI monument at Te Papa cemetry / who was Maori commander [may refer to Rawiri]. A window at Lichfield Cathedral placed by Bishop Selwyn to this lay preacher who drew up the humane order for fighting; as to protecting wounded men and bodies of the dead from desecration (as had lately happened at Te Ahu Ahu fight). (old native manner there)(at Te Ahu Ahu Captain Lloyds 57th Regt head was cut off, and some of the mens and Victorians History; Verso - top centre - [Labelled sketch of flag] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 230 x 183 mm. Transfers: May have been transferred from Robley papers in Manuscripts and Archives..

Date: 1865 - 1866

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: PUBL-0033-1866-417

Description: A large group of Maori men performing a haka, shown at a moment of leaping in the air. They are carrying a mixture of muskets and spears, and dressed in mixed European and Maori clothing. They are observed by a group of European and Maori men and women, with the artist's self portrait sketching near the centre in the foreground. In the background are low hills of Tauranga with several European buildings and a few military tents. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 225 mm

Date: 1864

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: A-033-007

Description: View of the trenches at Gate Pa, Tauranga, looking east, the front of the pa to the left, the rear to the right, after its capture by British forces in April 1864. European soldiers standing guard, two carrying a stretcher in the background, a rifle and parts of the broken palisade lying in the foreground, and wounded and dead Maori men visible in the trenches, including Reweti, in a trench to the right, facing the viewer. A tunnel on the left is marked as a covered way, and a tall pole in the background, on a slant is the flagpole. A low land formation in the background to the left is noted as Maungatapu cliffs with cemetery. Tauranga Harbour can be seen in the background Very similar to A-033-009. Robley made many copies of this view Another such view in Cowan's New Zealand Wars has Robley's additional explanatory text around the outside (neg 10985 1/2). The section along the left, to the left of the trench and inside the palisade is a covered passage leading to rifle pits. The figure lying in the left trench is described as 'dead Maori on blanket'. The figure in the right-hand trench is described as 'bearded wounded Maori' and 'Sticks knocked from the palisade' and 'sticks of palisade scathed by shot', '68th sentry on the higher part of the Pa', as well as 'fallen flagstaff in rear' are noted. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [title]; Recto - bottom left - Front; Recto - bottom right - Rear; Verso - Disposition of fortifications and other features explained in notes on back of sketch, including the following: Looking east. The flagstaff. Maungatapu cliffs [with] cemetery. A covered way. Reweti wounded and another. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash drawing 180 x 255 mm