Māori (New Zealand people) - Religion

Date: [1913-1933]

From: McDonnell, Alexander Francis, 1866-1938 : Further papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7445-01

Description: Papers relating to Ratana and the Ratana Church and business in the Wanganui and Whanganui River area; includes correspondence, accounts, clippings, notes, reproduction of R T Way's portrait of Ratana and other papers Language - Some items in Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1926

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6571-168

Description: Contains records and correspondence about the Ratana Church in the Wairarapa

Date: 1937

By: Hikito, Mutu, active 1937

Reference: MS-Papers-8079

Description: Letter to Hikito from Father F Wall SM, Jerusalem, asking him to read the gospel at church and two Ratana Pa registration cards, one for him, the other for Thelma Metiria Keepa (1937) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter with mss additions Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Poster announcing the Wainui-a-rua athletic & equestrian sports, Jerusalem, Apr 1937.

Date: 1881-1884, 1930

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6571-046

Description: Contains Te Whaiti family whakapapa and related whakapapa from other hapu in the South Wairarapa; also contains diary entries by Iraia Te Whaiti about local events, hui and personal affairs between 1881-1884, including his interpretation of the Potangaroa hui in 1881; also contains whakapapa and notes written by Henare Te Whaiti around 1930 about various topics, including the Ratana Church

Date: 1912

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0072-14

Description: Consists of notes on Io by Te Whatahoro, The names of Io (manuscript), Maori religion, The beliefs of the Maori, The mission field, Maori religion and some moralizing. Also The concept of a supreme being as evolved by a Neolithic Folk (1912). Also includes mss written by Best on the Maori religious cult of Io (ca 1913) with letter from W H Skinner Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1841 - 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-042

Description: Four drawings on one page. 'Ko te Rarei' names an elderly man wrapped in a cloak. He has full moko. [Seated Maori] shows three seated figures, one holding a gourd. 'Pukatea' shows a tall pukatea tree in forest with tree ferns below. 'A priestess of Ohiwa' shows a partially white-haired woman, with albatross feathers in her ears, moko and a fringed cloak The Library holds only photographic copies of originals in the British Library Add MS 19953, folio 42 (118 to 121) Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of four drawings, various media

Date: [1922-1927]

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: PAColl-7910-12

Description: Photographs associated with the Ratana Church, particularly relating to performing arts, taken by unknown photographers, between 1922 and 1927. Comprises: - "The choir and orchestra of the Ngati Kahungunu taken at Ratana on Good Friday, 14th April 1922". - Two images of groups of Maori women and girls, dressed in white blouses, with dark skirts, piupiu, and tipare (headbands) which have the word "Ratana" written on them. - An image of "Te Hahi Ratana, January 25th, 1927" which shows the external building of the Ratana Temple, with people and cars outside. This image has some damage, and nearly one quarter of the top right hand corner of the photograph is no longer there. - A group of Ratana people visiting the home of T Akahashi - Minister of Agriculture, in Tokyo. "Te Roopu o Ratana i te Kainga o T. Akahashi --- Minister of Agriculture. Tokio, Tiapani. Noema 10, 1924." Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1961-1962

From: Cathcart, Christopher, 1930-2013:Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11878-2

Description: Contains verse drama play script 'Duaterra, King', written by John Caselberg. Written in Dunedin and Auckland in 1961-1962, the play concerns Reverend John Marsden and his relationship with the Ngapuhi cheif Ruatara. Also, annotated manuscript of 'O New Zealand: Readings of Maori and European poetry and prose from early times to the present day, including a Maori history of the racial conflict in New Zealand and other outspoken but neglected literature.' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript (with annotations)

Date: 1955-1956

By: Henderson, James McLeod, 1925-2013

Reference: MSX-9229

Description: Thesis (typescript) by Henderson on Ratana written in 1955-1956. Submitted by Henderson for his Masters degree in history at the University of New Zealand. Includes annotations and revisions by Henderson. Also contains original photographs, illustrations and hand drawn emblems and symbols throughout the text. This thesis covers the history of the origins, growth and nature of the Ratana movement. See also MSX-9237 in MS-Group-2234 for another copy of the thesis, with many annotations and insertions. Publication - Thesis published in 1963 as `Ratana : the origins and the story of the movement', Wellington, N.Z. : Polynesian Society. Source of title - Transcribed from item Henderson wrote `Ratana: The origins and the story of the movement' (1963), and 'Ratana: The man, the church, the political movement' (1972). Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with photographs

Date: 5 November - 22 Dececmber 1998

By: Walker, Piripi, 1955-; Hakaraia, Marie, active 1999

Reference: OHColl-0620

Description: An oral history project concerning Rangiatea, the Māori Anglican Church at Otaki. Comprises interviews in which John Moffat, Netty Wilson, Tahiwi (Buster) Carkeek, Louise Carkeek, Hira Royal, Mere Kena, Andre Baker, Hohipuha Cook, Paddy Rikihanal, and Marie Hakaraia discuss the history of Rangiatea, the burning down of the church in 1995, and the rebuild project. Topics include the vestry, various ministers, church experiences, the extent of the pastorate, the Church's early history, the return of local soldiers from World War II, the opening of Te Wananga o Raukawa, kaumatua, Carkeek family history, issues about rebuilding and the significance of rebuilding the Church, traditional Maori beliefs versus Christianity, Te Rauparaha and Christianity, the Anglican Church, the interaction of Ngati Toa and Ngati Raukawa with government and the loss of land. A joint oral history project by Te Wananga o Raukawa and Te Roopu Whakahaere o Rangiatea. Funded by an Oral History grant from the Department of Internal Affairs. Rangiatea Church at Otaki was built between 1844 and 1851 under the guidance of Te Rauparaha and missionary Octavius Hadfield. It was the oldest Maori Anglican church in New Zealand until it was burnt down in 1995 by an arsonist. A replica of the church building was opened in 2003, which houses some of the treasures salvaged from the original church building. Quantity: 9 interview(s). 5 C60 cassette(s). 4 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 folder(s) (containing inwards letter from donor and project overview documents). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other index available. Search dates: 1998 Number of interviews/events: 9

Date: 1960s

From: Fijn, Jan (John) Reinder, 1910-2003 :Transparencies, particularly relating to the royal visit to Waitangi in 1963, and to Maori

Reference: PA12-5130

Description: Colour slide photographs taken by John Reinder Fijn circa 1960s. One photographs shows a bridal couple and guests waiting outside a church or wharenui (probably taken at Iritekura Marae, Waipiro Bay, circa 1960s). Ten photographs depict: a Roman Catholic bishop wearing a mitre with a clergyman outside a wharenui or church as people watch; a kuia smiling, a teenage Māori girl and toddlers standing by a fence; Māori kuia wearing headscarves, a Māori men butchering sides of meat on a trestle table, in a park near state houses; three Māori carvings, and the statue at St Faith's Church, Ohinemutu, Rotorua. Nine photographs depict: pallisade, fences, buildings, and wharenui at the Whakarewarewa model village. Three photographs depict: a view over geothermal steam at Ohinemutu, the spire of St Faiths Church in distance; and two kuia washing clothes in a concrete bath of steaming geothermal hot water. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides were delivered in an unlabelled plastic slide box in no discernable order. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Many of these photographs were taken at the same time and place as other photographs in this collection. However often photographs from single sequence were separated prior to delivery to the Library, and later donated in different accession lots. Related photographs may be held at library reference: PA12-10652.

Date: 1960s

From: Fijn, Jan (John) Reinder, 1910-2003 :Transparencies, particularly relating to the royal visit to Waitangi in 1963, and to Maori

Reference: PA12-5129

Description: Colour slide photographs taken by John Reinder Fijn circa 1960s. Seven photographs depict a kapa haka roopu demonstrating poi taken at Whakarewarewa Pā circa 1960s, including women performing a seated poi on grass, the roopu in front of a wharenui, and standing on a geothermal area. Three photographs depict: a carved figure with a open mouth at Ohinemutu village, a tekoteko, and a kuia standing beside a carved figure on a wharenui porch (slide mount annotated as "Rotorua"). Four photographs depict; the Māori Jesus and Mary figures in the stained glass windows by Dutch artist Martin Roestenburg (1909–1966), and candles, inside the Church of St. Werenfried, Lake Taupo. Two photographs depict: three men with a rowboat on the shore of a lake or sea, near a row of baches, and a farmer on horseback mustering sheep along a lake shore (probably at Lake Tutira taken circa 1960s). One photographs shows a young Māori girl at a roadside fruit stall; and two photographs show young Māori girls swimming and playing on a sand hill. Four photographs depict: a group of young Māori boys playing in small canoes (one canoe is named 'Kontitki') at the sea, and a group of Pakeha and Māori boys swimming nude (probably taken at Waipiro Bay circa 1960s). Title supplied by Library. Please be aware this item contains a depiction of child nudity. Arrangement: Slides were delivered in an unlabelled plastic slide box in no discernable order. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Many of these photographs were taken at the same time and place as other photographs in this collection. However often photographs from single sequence were separated prior to delivery to the Library, and later donated in different accession lots. Related photographs may be held at library references: PA12-10655, PA12-10680, and PA12-10653.

Date: 1935

From: Stratford, Peter : Epsom Trust collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11750-06

Description: Typescript manuscript for `Maori religions' by William S Dale. Paper cover `Carbon copy. Maori religion. Paper read at The Royal Society Conference, Dunedin, NZ. May 28-31, 1935. Pencil annotation on cover `original with Sydney U -Wedgewood', also indications that three other copies are held at (1) A. NZ Assn, (2) RSNZ, (3) [unreadable]. Purchased from Alan Taylor, [pencil name on title page]. Small amount of annotations/corrections throughout. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0 Linear Metres.

Date: [ca 1918-ca 1920s]

From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection

Reference: PAColl-9928-25

Description: Chiefly pages from three photograph albums, with images relating to the Presbyterian mission in the Whakatane district, taken circa 1918-circa 1920s by unidentified photographers. Grace Leitch Johnston (later the wife of Presbyterian minister Rev P Gladstone Hughes) features in many of the images. The images mostly show unidentified Maori children and adults and also people probably working for, or visiting, the mission. Includes a few photographs of Wi Mutu and of Maori WWI soldiers (PAColl-9928-25-17). Also some images of buildings including a meeting house at Waiohao. Also includes a group portrait taken at the wedding of the Rev John George Laughton and Horiana Te Kauru in 1921 with Miss Johnston as bridesmaid. Photograph taken by W Haughton of Rotorua. (PAColl-9928-25-23) Acompanying information - Two hand-written captions by the daughter of Miss Johnston (later Hughes). Source of descriptive information - There are no captions with these images. Miss Johnston, Wi Mutu, and meeting house at Waiohou identified from images at PAColl-9928-26-45 and PAColl-9928-26-57. Relationship complexity - Some images duplicated at PAColl-9928-27. Some images from this collection, and information regarding them, may be found in an article published in Te Ao Hou, Number 73, July 1973, pages 27 to 34, titled 'Memories of Waiohau' by E E Little. A copy is filed in the Binney backfile in Photographic Archive. Quantity: 54 album(s) Album(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1918-ca 1920]

From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-1818

Description: Album of photographs relating to the Presbyterian mission in the Whakatane district, taken circa 1918-ca 1920 by unidentified photographers. The album was given to Grace Leitch Johnston (later the wife of Presbyterian minister Rev P Gladstone Hughes) by 'E E W' (probably Elsie E Webber, later Mrs Elsie E Little) at 'Xmas 1920'. The images chiefly show unidentified Maori children (probably the pupils of the schools set up by the mission) but also people probably working for, or visiting, the mission. Four images include Presbyterian missionary John George Laughton. One shows him with the prophet Rua Kenana. Also images of a large unidentified hui and a church. Inscriptions: Inside front cover: To Grace L Johnston with love from E E W Xmas 1920 Relationship complexity - Some images duplicated at PAColl-9928-27. Some images from this collection and information regarding them may be found in an article published in Te Ao Hou, Number 73, July 1973, pages 27 to 34, titled 'Memories of Waiohau' by E E Little. A copy is filed in the Binney backfile in the Photographic Archive. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album 16.1 x 22.2 cm, with black front cover embossed with the word 'Photographs'. Front cover is no longer attached to the pages. No back cover.

Date: [ca 1919-ca 1920s], 1950

From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: PAColl-9928-27

Description: Loose prints from album and album pages at PA1-o-1818, PAColl-9928-25 and PAColl-9928-26, chiefly images relating to the Presbyterian mission in the Whakatane District, taken circa 1919 to circa 1920s by unidentified photographers. Also four postcards taken in Rotorua district circa 1920s including Whakarewarewa village. Also two school group portraits taken 1950 and circa 1950 of Maori school girls, possibly from Turakina Maori Girls' College. The images show, chiefly unidentified, Maori children and adults, also people working for, or visiting, the mission. Pictures include: - groups of Maori school children, some outside school buildings, some with teachers. A P Godber photographed one of these groups at Te Whaiti school. - Rev John George Laughton wearing Maori shoulder cape. - group outside the manse, Maungapohatu. - portrait of young Maori girls Merihi Tamahou and Rawhina Ripaki, taken January 1920. Relationship complexity - Some of these images, and information regarding them, may be found in an article published in Te Ao Hou, Number 73, July 1973, pages 27 to 34, titled 'Memories of Waiohau' by E E Little. A copy is filed in the Binney backfile in Photographic Archive. Quantity: 81 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection

Reference: PAColl-9928-26

Description: Unbound pages from two photograph albums, with images relating to the Presbyterian mission in the Whakatane District, taken circa 1920s by unidentified photographers. The images show a wide variety of identified scenes, groups, buildings and events including: - opening day of the school at Matahi. - rallys of Maori mission workers in 1921, 1923, 1924. - local Maori people. - mission hospital at Nuhaka. - portrait of Rua Kenana and Rev John George Laughton. - mission house at Matahi. Accompanying information - Five photocopied pages, provided by Binney, with the note "From Rev Fletcher's collection. Now at Whakatane Museum (1986) (Duplicated in Fowler) " Relationship complexity - Some images duplicated at PAColl-9928-27. An album with the same images, from the collection of Rev Henry James Fletcher, is held at the Whakatane Museum. Some of the images from this collection, and information regarding them, may be found in an article in Te Ao Hou, Number 73, July 1973, pages 27 to 34, titled 'Memories of Waiohau' by E E Little. A copy is filed in the Binney backfile in the Photographic Archive. Arrangement: Ordered according to the numbers written on the back of the pages. Quantity: 59 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1921-2005]

By: Henderson, James McLeod, 1925-2013

Reference: MS-Group-2234

Description: Correspondence, research and teaching notes relating mainly to the Ratana Movement but also to wider race relations issues. Includes an annotated draft of Henderson's 1956 thesis on Ratana. Henderson wrote 'Ratana: The origins and the story of the movement' (1963), and 'Ratana: The man, the church, the political movement' (1972) Quantity: 15 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts (including photocopies), printed matter, photographs, drawings Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs Rosa Henderson, Wellington, 2013 (A2013-216); Sep 2013 (A2013-249) Transfers: Papers received in Manuscripts and transfers made from there - To Book Collections - Copies of serial Te Whetu Marama o te Kotahitanga - To Photographic Archive - Case of colour transparencies, photo album, folder of loose black & white photographs.

Date: [1883?]-1919 - [2004]

By: Keam, Ronald Frank, 1932-2019

Reference: ATL-Group-00573

Description: Comprises collection of material relating to Alfred Fairbrother's time as a Baptist Māori Missionary in the Rotorua region from 1883 to 1886. Collection includes a handwritten journal by Alfred Fairbrother containing Māori hymns, clippings, and diary entries relating to his life in Te Wairoa and Ōhinemutu, particularly his interactions with local Māori. Also includes a folder comprising handwritten notes, a transcript of Bible passage Job 22.21, a greeting postcard, and two booklets relating to Egypt. Also includes four photographs, comprising one glass lantern slide portrait of Fairbrother, taken by Josiah Martin between 1883 and 1886, a digital print of the same image (likely made by Ron Keam), one albumen print of the Pink and White Terraces, annotated verso, and one albumen print of a man, possibly Fairbrother, with an annotation verso that reads "Road to Hot Lake New Zealand North". Both albumen prints were taken by an unknown photographer circa 1883. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w lantern slide(s). 2 folder(s). 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: The collection was sent by descendants of Alfred Fairbrother to Associate Professor Ron Keam of the University of Auckland, who authored books about Alfred Fairbrother and other Baptist Māori Missionaries, and the Tarawera eruption. Processing information: Not all names associated with the collection have been indexed.

Date: [ca 1962]

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-1/18

Description: Miscellaneous papers including a radio play by Leo Fowler "The house that couldn't be bought," an article written by the Very Reverend J G Laughton "The Maori and religion" and some Christmas cards [with NZBC Maori design] and Fowler's 60th birthday party invitation [Sat 15 Dec 1962, Waihirere Maori Club Rooms, Gladstone Road, Gisborne]. Quantity: 1 folder(s).