Hei tiki

Date: 1940 - 1949

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1940s

Description: Includes: 1940s?: Sheet of pins. New Zealand has a "charm" of its own [describing tiki] Memorial service for members of the Maori Battalion and thanksgiving for the first Maori Victoria Cross 1940: An Arawa souvenir. Wahiao Meeting House Whakarewarewa. Official opening by the grace of His Excellency the Right Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, 16 November 1940. Pamphlet with salutations to Hoani te Heuheu, and genealogical tree from Tamatekapua down to Wahiao. Otakou Maori Centennial 1840-1940. Foundation stone laying ceremony. 24 February 1940 [Order of ceremony] 1941: "Maori carving", by W J Phillipps, Dominion Museum. Publication flyer 1943. Election campaign booklet in Maori for Right Hon Peter Fraser New Zealand Centennial 1840-1940. Tihee! Mauri Ora! Official opening ceremonies of the third and fourth Te Arawa Centennial Memorials, Tawakeheimoa (Whare Wananga at Te Awahou) and Tamatekapua (national whare runanga at Ohinemutu), by His Excellency the Governor-General ... Sir Cyril Newall. 24 March 1943 [Order of ceremonies; includes 2 sheets containing translations of some passages] 1946: Maori national welcome to the 28th Battalion of the 2nd NZEF. Imperial Government Shed at Aotea Quay, 22 January 1946 [Invitation card to Hon HGR Mason] 1948: Rangiatea restoration 1848-1948. Diocesan Maori Mission. Pamphlet. 1949?: New Zealand National Party. Te Maori a ona ra e tuku iho nei: The Maori and the future. He who stands at the prow of the canoe shall be renowned (critical of the Labour Party's policy for Maori) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying below 250 mm. Processing information: Ngarimu Investiture souvenir programme; [and] Supplement to souvenir programme. Ruatoria, 6 October 1943: Combined into Te Whaiti family collection ATL-Group-00753, October 2022.

Date: 1853

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-144-062

Description: Half-length three-quarters frontal portrait of Te Horeta te Taniwha. He has moko, a greenstone ear adornment and wears a hei tiki. He wears a white European shirt, Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: Chas. Heaphy. Title bottom centre in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original, 12 x 9 in

Date: 1880 - 1900

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon 1840-1930 :[Marvin - Robley correspondence. Illustrated letters, post-cards, envelopes addressed to the Marvin family, between 1898 and 1913]

Reference: E-403-f-002-2

Description: Drawings of various artefacts, including a tiki and axe handle, held at British Museum. Also includes notes on these artefacts by artist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Old jade at British Museum Quantity: 3 drawing(s) (on verso of page 023-1). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 250 x 130 mm

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-029

Description: Various Maori artifacts, including a carved shark's tooth, a tiki, a dagger and a club, a flute, a greenstone earring and a drawing of a woman's lip and chin tattoo. Other Titles - Pounamu (greenstone), he kumete (a bowl) Quantity: 7 drawing(s) (on recto). 1 drawing(s) (on verso). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 230 x 313 mm

Date: [1880s-1900s?]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Iles, James, active 1878; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-518

Description: Includes photographs of Maori artefacts in museum context. Possibly created by James Edge-Partington, an anthropologist who studied artefacts in New Zealand and the Pacific. This volume is in the same style of album, with similar photographs and articles as Webster album 4 (PA1-o-519) which has Edge-Partington's named bookplate inside the front cover. Studies of a variety of artefacts including an instrument giving a decoy call for kiwi; a sea leopard's tooth carved and worn as a pendant (from Stewart Island); whale teeth pendants; weapons; tools; carved waka, prows of waka; carved meeting houses; Te Kooti's house "Te Waho"; carved storehouses; a Maori kite; eel traps and fish hooks. The artefacts are from various collections in New Zealand and overseas, including the Chapman Collection, the Hamilton Collection, the Hocken Collection and General Robley's Collection. Cuttings from articles written by James Edge-Partington from anthropological journals are inserted in the album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Abum with dark grey cover; 26 x 21 cm

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-003

Description: Shows an elaborately carved tekoteko which forms the post of a palisade to a pa near Rotoaira Lake Original sketch for lithograph in Angas, G F "New Zealanders Illustrated", Plate L, p114, where it is described as a carved Tiki or image in an old pah near Roto-aire (Rotoaira) Lake. Behond the image is a little elevated whata, or box for holding the bones of a favourite child Other Titles - Hei tiki Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 233 x 175 mm

Date: ca 1900s

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 17

Reference: PAColl-7489-94

Description: Guide Pipi of Whakarewarewa wearing a kahu huruhuru and a feather in her hair. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

Reference: A-020-029-1

Description: Shows a mako or shark tooth earring or pendant, a tiki (ornament worn suspended round the neck), a greenstone or pounamu earring, a flute, a woman's moko (lip and chin tattoo), a wooden dagger and a tukituki (type of mere or club). The shark's tooth, small tiki and earring are all original sketches for details in the lithograph 'New Zealand ornaments and decorations', being plate 39 of G. F. Angas' The New Zealanders illustrated (London, McLean, 1847). All three objects are made of South Island pounamu (jade or greenstone). Both the tiki and the shark's tooth were 'drawn from offerings on a wahi tapu, consecrated by the parents to a deceased child, as being the most precious articles they possessed; although exposed amidst the ruins of a deserted pah, so strict is the law of tapu that no one dare touch these valuable relics'. Other Titles - He tiki Quantity: 7 drawing(s) (on one sheet). Physical Description: Pencil sketches on sheet 233 x 132 mm

Date: ca 1910

From: Robinson, Mr :Photograph albums containing mainly carte de visite portraits and views of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-f-063

Description: Large format photomechanical tourist views of New Zealand taken by an unidentified photographer, possibly published by Wrigglesworth & Binns in "W & B Series". Places shown are listed above. One photograph shows a young maori woman wearing a feather cloak and a hei tiki, and carrying a mere. Other Titles - Robinson III Album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 430 x 295mm rebound with blue "Library" marbled covers

Date: 1970 - 1979

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to jewellery]

By: House of Stoneham (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-JEWELLERY-1970s-01

Description: Small paper bag with a tiki logo on one side, beneath the coat of arms of the company. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on small paper bag Provenance: Donated by Shirley Barclay, for the McLaughlin family, in 2010.

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-090

Description: A selection of Maori weapons and ornaments at the National Museum. Identifies the tewatewa [tewhatewha] (Battle Axe), hei-tiki (greenstone ornament worn around neck) and a hand weapon of wood used by Maori Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 268 x 187 mm

Date: [Between 1903 and 1906]

By: Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959; New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts

Reference: PA1-o-321

Description: Album of scenic photographs, chiefly taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, with views of the North Island and South Island. North Island scenes include a number of tourist views of Maori, showing carved meeting houses; a group performing a haka; two women demonstrating the hongi; a young woman wearing a feather cloak, hei tiki and huia feathers, and holding a mere; a group of young boys in a haka pose; a woman smoking a pipe; a group of children bathing in a hot pool at Ohinemutu; and Mr. Nelson's carved house at Whakarewarewa. Other North Island scenes show Mount Taranaki, the Auckland wharves, Lake Waikaremoana, and a man fishing at the Ohau Channel, Rotorua. South Island views cover Lakes Wakatipu, Manapouri and Te Anau; the Tasman Glacier; peaks in the Southern Alps; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; a team of four horses with a laden Cobb & Co coach on a ferry, crossing the Mangahua [i.e. Inangahua] River, the Lyell River Bridge and Hawks Crag, all in the Buller Gorge. The last few images are exterior and interior views of the Dunedin Railway Station soon after it was finished in 1906. Inscriptions: Album page - John T. Mair, Wellington, New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cover, entitled `Photographs' lettered in gold; 26.0 x 31.5 cm

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1930s]

Reference: PAColl-6898

Description: Mostly images of three Maori girls in traditional dress next to a pool, some showing them combing their hair and looking in a mirror. Also includes two copy negatives: one of Bella Papakura and a man giving a dramatic address to Maori onlookers outside a carved house and the other of two elderly men outside a carved house being approached by two women and captioned "The Story Tellers". There are also two images of ploughing with a team of six horses; a group of people outside a house; and a pool in the bush (these last four may not be connected to the others). Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-038489 to 038502 Quantity: 14 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1880 - 1900

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon 1840-1930 :[Marvin - Robley correspondence. Illustrated letters, post-cards, envelopes addressed to the Marvin family, between 1898 and 1913]

Reference: E-403-f-002-1

Description: Drawings of various artefacts, including a tiki, jade hook, chisel handle and a ring, held at British Museum Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Old jade at British Museum Quantity: 5 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 250 x 130 mm

Date: 1943

From: [Christmas cards sent during the Second World War, from soldiers and other servicemen. 1940-1945].

By: 3rd NZ General Hospital (Beirut, Lebanon)

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-WWII-1943-03

Description: A greeting card sent from the 3rd New Zealand General Hospital. It shows a tiki and red cross on the front cover, and, inside, a picture of the hospital, set up in a fort in the Middle East, with red crosses on the walls and an ambulance driving by. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on folded card, 88 x 137 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2005.

Date: 1964

From: [Ephemera relating to Coronet Peak ski field. 1950-1969]

By: R E Owen (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-SKIFIELD-Coronet-1964-01

Description: A pamphlet advertising Coronet Peak (Queenstown) as a place for "New Zealand's most popular ski-ing holiday", with short paragraphs on transportation, accommodation, ski transport, chairlift, ski school, ski hire, cafeteria and shop, and neighbouring ski-fields. Gives alternative holiday plans, and costs. The front cover shows a photograph of a man skiing, and shows a Tiki Tour logo. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on sheet 228 x 406 mm, folded to 228 x 103 mm.

Date: 1943 - 1945

By: Beale, Gilbert Marsden, 1897-1972

Reference: G-016

Description: Shows a Maori girl in traditional korowai or tasselled cloak, and wearing a tipare or headband, and feather in her long hair. She is holding a greenstone tiki or similar ornament in her left hand Probably created during Beale's time as a supervisor at the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Featherston, during 1943-1945 Inscriptions: Backing board verso - bottom centre - N Savage's Gallery Limited / 134 Bridge Street, Nelson / PO Box 266 / Phone 87-597 [stamped in ink] Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Silk or wool embroidery on twilled cotton, 600 x 600 mm (sight, diagonal) Provenance: Donation: Antiquarian Art, Wellington, June 2012 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2096 - Other material from the purchase transferred to Photographic Archive.

Date: 1900 - 1999

By: Rotorua Newspapers Ltd; Rotorua Public Relations Office; Thermalart Productions

Reference: Eph-C-TOURISM-Rotorua-1900s

Description: Includes: 1966: The Geyserland gazette. Special "Fly North" edition, published and edited by the City of Rotorua Public Relations Office [ca 1966] 1970s: Hot Lakes District Chronicle, 28 October 1896. [DUNCAN RITCHIE] becomes Rotorua chief. (Sheet printed for individual tourist. 1970s) Presenting the one and only [YVONNE RITCHIE], on stage with her daring high-stepping act ... Peerless Hall Rotorua, Wednesday Oct. 28, 1896. Thermalart productions [1970s] (Sheet printed for individual tourist) 1989: Thermalair, Rotorua N.Z., vol 19, no. 19, 10 February 1989 (20-page tourist newspaper, published by Rotorua Newspapers Ltd) 1990s?: Rotorua's Waimangu Thermal Valley, New Zealand's largest protected thermal reserve. Pamphlet/poster [1990s?] 1995: Buried Village Rotorua, NZ. [Paper bag with tiki, kiwi, whare, mere imagery. 1995] Thermalair, Rotorua N.Z., vol 25, no. 14, 13 January 1995 (24-page tourist newspaper, published by Rotorua Newspapers Ltd) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on newpapers and posters, sizes varying up to A3 size Provenance: One item donated by Dr Margaret Bailey in 2009.

Date: 1921 - 1863 - 1865

By: Gordon, William Francis Robert, 1846-1936; Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: A-092-023-a

Description: Head of a fully tattooed Maori man, with cloak and tiki. Indicates and names parts of the man's moko. Derived from a drawing by H. G. Robley of Tomika te Mutu, chief of Ngai-te-Rangi, Tauranga (cf A-080-008-1), dating from the 1860s. Other Titles - Tomika te Mutu Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of drawing 127 x 76 mm