Taumau

Date: [ca 1988-1989]

From: Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme 1944- : Papers of the Matriarchs

Reference: MS-Papers-4416-19

Description: Contains holograph notes, clippings, whakapapa and original transcripts of the interview with Solomon. One of these transcripts is unmarked and one has been proofed, edited and corrected. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2002 - 2005 - 01 Jan 2002 - 31 Dec 2005

From: Nga Morehu oral history project

By: Pauro, Te Manawanui Lucy, 1907-2010

Reference: OHInt-0776-06

Description: Interview with Manawanui Pauro (Aged nearly 100). Recalls her childhood growing up on the banks of the Whanganui River. Mentions her parents and being raised by her grandparents. Talks about her memories of Whanganui River when it was full of canoes and food. Recalls going to school at Upokongaro and the pastimes including canoe competitions. Describes the traditional role and work of Maori women. Talks about marriage, how elders did not support marriage to Pakeha, and her own arranged marriage. Mentions her husband fighting in the Second World War while she brought up three children. Describes the farms that her husband worked on. Talks about her belief in the religion of Tohu Kakahi (Parihaka) and in taniwha, the guardians of the Whanganui River. Talks about the traditional values of Maori, her own vision for her people. Quantity: 2 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available in English OHA-5107.

Date: 24 Nov 1988

From: The Matriarchs Oral History Project

By: Kaa, Sophie, 1903-1992

Reference: OHInt-0048/10

Description: Sophie Kaa was born in October 1903 in Iwitea, Wairoa, the eldest daughter in a family of twelve. Discusses her whakapapa descending from Ngai Tahu Matawhaiti, Ngati Kahungunu and Rongomai Wahine on her father's side and Rongowhakaata on her mother's side. Talks about her father, a faith healer who believed in a Christian God, and chairman of the Maori Council in the early 1900s. Talks about the family's Anglican religion and her father's attitude towards the Ringatu and Ratana religions. Describes his high moral values, emphasis placed on education and attitudes to his daughters' upbringing. Talks about sleeping arrangements on the marae. Recalls her father teaching his daughters how to fight physically. Talks about her grandparents and mentions that her maternal grandmother, an ariki from Whangara, was a descendant of Porourangi. Describes her fascination with the English language, a planned arranged marriage and her marriage to an English speaking Maori who became minister at Tirau College. Describes her mother's nursing of flu victims in 1918 and the effect of the flu on Maori society. Talks about her scholarship to the Church of England school Hukarere College and changing her name. Discusses the importance of cultivating and retaining the Maori language and integrating it into the education system. Talks about her involvement with the Maori Women's Welfare League, spirituality, tapu and tikanga with particular reference to menstruation, education on menstruation, women giving up their babies, the lack of birth control and Maori forms of abortion. Talks about her own twelve children, their education and career choices and contemporary attitudes to elders. Language - (small amount of Maori) Venue - Gisborne : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Gisborne Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004132-OHC-004135 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: Transcript(s) available OHA-1632 and OHDL-000571.

Date: 12 Aug 1988

From: The Matriarchs Oral History Project

By: Solomon, Harata Ria Te Uira, 1925-1993

Reference: OHInt-0048/09

Description: Harata Solomon was born 22 January 1925 in Otaki, one of eleven children, and was brought up in Waikanae. Discusses her name and whakapapa on both parent's sides. Discusses her paternal grandfather, Kaka Kura Wi Parata, a chief of Ngati Te Kowhai, Ngati Toa and Te Atiawa and his wife who was of Ngati Raukawa descent. Talks about arranged marriages, communal living and sharing in Maori society. Discusses Waikanae, living off the land and traditional diet. Talks about her memories of her mother and being looked after by her maternal grandmother after her mother's death. Discusses her father and his involvement with the Ratana religion and her family marae, Whakarongotai, in Waikanae. Talks of her cultural identity, modernity and assimilating into Pakeha culture in the 1930s and 1940s. Recalls her childhood pastimes, memories of the Depression and the number of people the family had staying. Discusses her grandmother's death, the division of labour in Maori society, her bicultural life and Maoritanga. Talks about her education at Waikanae, Hukarere Boarding School and Wellington Teachers' Training College. Talks about Ratana and Mormon teachings and lack of sexual instruction. Discusses her own faith as a member of the the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints and a Mormon. Recalls the Waikanae community and poi, haka, taiaha and mere activities. Discusses women clearing tapu on the marae and her aunts and their passing down of knowlege and the place of Maori women. Talks about her commitment to teaching, the impact of World War II on her whanau, her marriage after the war and her husband and children. Venue - Wellington : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Sound Centre, National Library, Wellington Arrangement: Tape sequence - OHC-4150-4151 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Transcript(s) available OHA-1637 and OHDL-000576.

Date: 1970

From: Te Reo Irirangi o Te Upoko o Te Ika: Recordings

Reference: OHC-031764

Description: Title supplied by Library. Subject interviewed by Koro Dewes. Quantity: 1 C120 cassette(s). Search dates: 1970 Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing. Write-protection tab removed by Library.

Date: November 1970 - 01 Nov 1970 - 30 Nov 1970

From: Kapunga Te Matemoana (Koro) Dewes collection of sound recordings

Reference: OHT5-1463

Description: Contents: (Part 3): An account of the taumau custom arranged for Amiria's son after World War Two, Amiria's childhood life in a East Coast village. Presenter: Amiria Stirling at Karori, Wellington, November 1970. Part 1 (RM12, Tape 11, OHT5-1444) and Part 2 (RM19, Tape 18, OHT5-1451). Venue - Karori, Wellington Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other Catalogue of Recordings from the Koro Dewes Collection.