Clothing and dress - Tonga

Date: 1843 - 1820 - 1839

By: Massart, active 1840s

Reference: A-327-021

Description: Shows a tall young woman (said in the text to be about fifteen or sixteen years old), with striped loincloth, tattooed upper chest, and lower arms and legs. She is carrying a basket of flowers and is being admired by three smaller girls at the left. The location is likely to be Tonga rather than the Caroline Islands Gabriel Lafond de Lurcy travelled for many years in the 1820-1850s, but the travels illustrated here must have been undertaken in the 1820-1830s. Other Titles - Caroline Islands - Ouhila, daughter of the high priest of Tongatapu Other Titles - Tonga, Friendly Islands Extended Title - From Gabriel Lafond de Lurcy "Voyages autour du monde et naufrages celebres", volume VIII, opp page 301. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on steel engraving, 135 x 150 mm, on sheet 155 x 212 mm.

Date: 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Costume plates of Oceania] Torino [Turin] ; Fontana, 1844

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Mercier, active 1840s

Reference: A-119-027

Description: Shows a warrior, with parts of his face, torso and limbs darkened by paint or tattooing. He holds a broad-bladed spear in his right hand. Image similar to that at : B-052a-007. Wahlen's book is an Italian translation of his "Moeurs, usages et coutumes de tous les peuples du monde..." Bruxelles, 1843-44. Vol. 4. Other Titles - Warrior of Tongatapu Extended Title - From: Wahlen, A. Usi e costumi sociali, politici, et religiosi... Vol. 2 Oceania. Torino, 1844-1847. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, handcoloured, on sheet 270 x 177 mm.

Date: 1843 - 1820 - 1839

By: Devillier, active 1844

Reference: A-327-022

Description: Shows two women with some body tattooing, wearing skirts and engaging in pugilism, possibly somewhat ritualised as both have their right fists raised and their right feet forward. They are watched by a colourfully dressed and tattooed man and woman in the left foreground. Gabriel Lafond de Lurcy travelled for many years in the 1820-1850s, but the travels illustrated here must have been undertaken in the 1820-1830s. Other Titles - Tongatapu, Tonga - fighting of women, pugilism Extended Title - From Gabriel Lafond de Lurcy "Voyages autour du monde et naufrages celebres", volume VIII, opp page 341. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on steel engraving, 145 x 180 mm, on sheet 157 x 233 mm.

Date: 1828 - 1838

By: Rouargue, Emile, 1795?-1865; Masson, active 1830s

Reference: A-327-014

Description: Shows an interior scene, with four Europeans in naval dress, seated on the floor of a hut, addressing a line of eleven Tongan women. Some of the women are fully clothed; some are bare-breasted. Other Titles - Dumont Durville in the islands of Tonga Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage autour du monde. Volume 2 , opp. p. 135. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 120 x 180 mm on sheet 162 x 258 mm

Date: 1838 - 1835 - 1826 - 1843 - 1836 - 1829

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Truch, active 1835

Reference: A-318-056

Description: Shows a full length portrait of a man with wrap-around skirt, and necklace of long curved teeth or leaves. Over his right shouder he holds a large club with curved (bladed?) edges. Other warriors stand in a group at the right, and there is a boat in the water at the left. Plate 206 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist, and Truch as the engraver. Previous published image appears in J S C Dumont d'Urville's "Voyage de ... l'Astrolabe ..." Paris: J Tastu, 1833. (Held in ATL Rare Books fR 910.4). Other Titles - Archipel de Tonga - Chef et guerriers en costume de guerre Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 206 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 216 x 141 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: 1884

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-39-38

Description: Photograph taken from Zion looking down at three Tongan men standing near orange trees and a fale. In the distance is a church with scaffolding surrounding the spire. Photographed by Alfred Burton in Jul 1884. From the series The Camera in the Coral Islands Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 2700 - Nukualofa, Tongatabu - from Zion. Burton Bros, Dunedin; Mount recto - bottom left - The Camera in the Coral Islands (Copyright Series) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. Physical Description: Albumen print 14.3 x 20.4 cm on mount 22.5 x 29 cm

Date: 1887

Reference: A-116-001

Description: Six vignettes of scenes and portraits relating to the 1887 revolution in Tonga. Other Titles - Nukualofa Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 174 x 241 mm

Date: 1977-1979

From: Crane, Wendy Vivienne, 1936-: Photographs of New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, and India

Reference: PA12-1840

Description: Slides taken during a visit to Tongatapu, Tonga. Many of the images are of performances of dances. Others include a silver band, young women modeling dresses, corals, and people in boats Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1884

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-39-36

Description: Large group of people assembled outside traditional Tongan houses. Photographed by Alfred Burton in Jul 1884. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 2691 - Tongan village - Neiafu - Vavau. Burton Bros, Dunedin; Mount recto - bottom left - The Camera in the Coral Islands (Copyright Series) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. Physical Description: Albumen print 14.3 x 19.8 cm on mount 22.5 x 29 cm

Date: 2000

Reference: H-638-001/018

Description: Topics include developments along the Wellington waterfront, Prime Minster Helen Clark's attack on spend-thrift television managers, controversy over the national museum Te Papa's presentation of artworks, the Constitutional Conference 2000, the rebel coup in Fiji, activist Tame Iti's visit to Fiji during the rebel coup, the character of Jenny Shipley, the Leader of the Opposition, New Zealand's health record compared to that of France, New Zealand doctors and nurses emigrating while immigrant doctors are not employed in New Zealand, Associate Minister of Maori Affairs Tariana Turia's use of the word holocaust in a Maori context, the falling New Zealand dollar, the use of human DNA in pig embryos, American miltary responses to cut-backs in New Zealand defence spending, the non-pacific nature of the Pacific Ocean, the New Zealand-Australian agreement reached over social welfare and immigration policies, logging of native forests on the West Coast, the Treaty of Waitangi Tainui settlement advantaging the Hong KOng and Shanghai Bank. Quantity: 18 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of black ink drawings.

Date: 1884

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-39-37

Description: Young Tongan man standing beneath a tree with his back to the photographer. Beyond him are buildings near the foreshore. Photographed by Alfred Burton in Jul 1884. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 2705 - Nukualofa, Tongatabu. Burton Bros, Dunedin; Mount recto - bottom left - The Camera in the Coral Islands (Copyright Series) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. Physical Description: Albumen print 14.3 x 19.8 cm on mount 22.5 x 29 cm

Date: 1914

From: Bailey, Colin Lennie, 1906-1997: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-0497

Description: Two photographs (with a duplicate of one) of Tonga, taken by an unidentified photographer. Shows a large group of Tongan teachers in front of a wooden building with W H Gould, the Director of Education, and two other Europeans; and a group of Tongans, including the King, sitting and standing under trees during a visit by New Zealand members of parliament. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Processing information: Combined in to ATL-Group-00790 and title changed, October 2022.Previous title: Bailey, Colin Lennie (Professor), 1906- :Photographs relating to Tonga.

Date: [1880s?]

From: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922 :Maori and Polynesian photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Davey, Frank, 1860-; Davey Photo Company

Reference: PA1-f-071

Description: Photographs of various Pacific Islands, particulary Tonga, Hawaii and Tahiti, probably taken during the 1880s The photographers vary, and include the Burton Brothers who took most of the Tongan photographs when visiting in 1884; some of the Hawaiian views were taken by Davey Photo Co. The photographers are not identified in many cases. Inscriptions: Album page - "from Mr S Percy Smith" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown textured cloth cover, black leather corners and spine; 38 x 32 cm

Date: 1803 - 1773 - 1774

By: Honkoop (Firm); Chapman, Charles, active 1770s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: B-054-041

Description: Two woven baskets, a comb and a G-string or cod-piece from Tonga, collected during Cook's second voyage in October 1773 or June 1774. Derived from an engraving by John Record after Charles Chapman published in Cook, James. A voyage towards the South Pole. London, 1777, pl. 21. Rearranged from the English-language version of the engraving. For the other half of this engraving see B-054-042 (Wapenen enz. van de Bewoonen ven de Vrienden-Eilanden) Other Titles - Utensils of the inhabitants of the Friendly Islands. 1. A comb. 2 & 3. Baskets. 4. A feather frontlet (G-string). Extended Title - From; Cook, James. Reizen rondom de Waerld. Pl 21. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 217 x 145 mm

Date: 1884

From: New Zealand Department of Justice, Commissioner of Patents :Collection of Burton Brothers prints

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-34-14

Description: From series : The Camera in the Coral Islands Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

Date: 23 October 1900

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-q-633-40-2

Description: Tongan women observing the visit of Lord Ranfurly and party to the King of Tonga. Photograph taken 23 October 1900 by Malcolm Ross. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - The audience watching us. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 110 x 152 mm mounted on album page 253 x 314 mm

Date: 1835 - 1840

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Mercier, active 1840s

Reference: A-434-024

Description: Engraving after Sainson shows a full length portrait of a Tongan warrior seen from the right side, with the right side of his torso and face painted black. He is bare-chested and wears a white skirt, a cloth hat and a spiked necklace. In his right hand he carries a broad-bladed spear. Similar to the work at A-119-027. Probably from a German edition of Wahlen's "Moeurs, usages et costumes de tous les peuples du monde" Other Titles - Warrior of Tongatabu Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Handcoloured engraving, 255 x 163 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, in 2010.

Date: 1884

From: New Zealand Department of Justice, Commissioner of Patents :Collection of Burton Brothers prints

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-34-15

Description: Three young Tongan women, photographed at Nukualofa in 1884 by Alfred Burton. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 2722 Tongan beauties - Nukualofa. Burton Brothers, Dunedin.; Mount recto - bottom left - The camera in the Coral Islands; Mount recto - bottom centre - Registrar of Copyrights, New Zealand, 674. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. Physical Description: Albumen print 14.7 x 19.4 cm on mount 22.9 x 29 cm

Date: 1791 - 1800 - 1792

By: Piron, Jean, active 1791-1794; Copia, Jacques Louis, 1764-1799; Hill, Julian, active 1996-2009

Reference: B-112-011

Description: Shows a group of island men and women with one European man aboard a vessel with two hulls joined by a platform on which is erected a wooden frame allowing sitting above and beneath. The vessel has a trangular woven sail. There is an island close in the left background and a canoe and sailing boat in the right background. Date taken from the Library's copy of this volume, but there may also have been a 1797 edition from which this loose copy may have come. Other Titles - Double canoe of the Friendly Islands, Tonga Extended Title - From, Labillardiere, J J H de. Atlas pour servir a la relation du voyage a la recherche de la Perouse ... pendant les annees 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere et 2eme annee de la Republique Francaise (Paris, 1800) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Atlas du voyage a la recherche de la Perouse Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 248 x 404 mm, on plate 303 x 448 mm, on sheet cropped to 309 x 467 mm.

Date: Between 1882 and 1884

From: Rundle, Henry J, fl 1882-1885 :Photograph album of views taken on cruises in Melanesia, Micronesia, Western Polynesia and New Guinea aboard HMS Espiegle

Reference: PA1-q-073-09

Description: Group of Tongan men, women and children photographed ca 1882-1884 in front of a house on Tongatapu, probably by a member of the crew of HMS Espiegle. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - Natives Tonga Tabu HMS Espiegle undertook a number of cruises in Melanesia, Micronesia, Western Polynesia and New Guinea in the period 1882-1885. Members of the crew received instruction from John Paine of Sydney, Australia, in the use of photographic equipment, and took a number of photographs on the voyages. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.1 x 20.5 cm, mounted on album page 30.8 x 24.5 cm