Māori meeting houses

Date: 1932-1947

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0510

Description: Contains notes regarding various meeting houses, including Ratana Hall. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1960s

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

Reference: PAColl-10510-1

Description: Photographic prints and proof sheets of people, Māori meeting houses, kapa haka (Māori cultural) groups, and landscapes. Includes photographs in various places in New Zealand, as well as the Pacific (probably Samoa), taken by various photographers, circa 1960s. Includes images of details of whakairo carvings and paintings from whare, as well as decorated hue (gourds), a pounamu toki, and the 'Rotorua Whaka Maori Concert Party' performing an action song. The Samoan images include a wedding. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s) Includes one item made up of five sheets with 148 images. 4 b&w copy photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black & white, and colour photographic prints Transfers: These photographs were separated from the material in 77-014/06A for storage reasons in October 2016..

Date: [1960s-1970s?]

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10532-12

Description: Photographs of Māori carvings, tukutuku, and paintings associated with whare nui, or Māori meeting houses. Includes images of the whare Te Poho o Tamaterangi, Rangiahua Marae, near Wairoa, taken circa 1961. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographs

Date: 1940 - 1990

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: A-342-147/171

Description: Design drawings showing and human and bird forms. A-342-155/157 are McEwen's designs for a gate at Raukawa Marae, Otaki. Titles noted on sketches include: Raparapa - the lower end of the barge-board of a house showing the stylised hand with (in this case) five fingers; carved faces from Anaha, Aotea, Taupo, Turanga, Te Kuiti, Urewera, Arawa, Kauwhata, Te Oreore, Pare; figures from Tainui (Ngatitoa), Matatua about 1880, Whanganui; N'Porou, Ngaitahu, Raharuhi Rukupo School 1840s, Arawa (by Puwhakaoho before 1820), North Auckland, Hauraki, Taranaki; Amo tieke, Amo Wharewhiti, Amo Paku, Ngarangi o RehuaPoutama amo, Poutama Pare; Tawhitinui pare terminal, Tawhitinui papaka; Waiherehere maihi, Waiheriheri tekoteko; Poutama Maihi, Tanewai Whakawae; Huriwhenua pare centre. Quantity: 25 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketches on sheets, sizes varying up to about 350 mm.

Date: 1960-1966

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: Series-6708-2

Description: Photographic proof sheets depicting Māori, taken and created by Ans Westra between 1960 and 1966. The proof sheets were originally treated as finding aids for the associated negatives. At the front of each binder is a hand written general index created by Ans Westra. A paper sheet annotated by Ans Westra with additional information accompanies each proof sheet. Title supplied by Library Oral History also held by the Library, "Ans Westra talking about her proof sheets", OHColl-0953-01 Arrangement: A4 sized proof sheets are organised in sequential order using the numbering sequence supplied by Ans Westra. The proof sheets were then arranged by the Library into nine ring binders, approximately 100 per folder. Quantity: 899 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets with 12 frames each - approximately. Physical Description: Contact proof sheets

Date: 1960s

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12157-119

Description: Notebook (partially filled) containing notes relating to whare nui, labelled 'Meeting houses' and 'Margaret Orbell' on the front cover, Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Bound notebook and holographs, 19.5 x 13 cm Processing information: From bundle 6, ATL box 15.

Date: ca1982

From: Baillie, William Jeavons Hall, 1941-:Slides, photographs, and other material

Reference: PA12-0227

Description: Before and after restoration; photographs of Pacific Island spears (probably hunting and fishing spears). The interior restoration of an unidentified Maori meeting house Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

From: Museum of New Zealand project

Reference: OHV-0351

Description: Quantity: 1 videocassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: Nov 1955

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-6301-89

Description: Replica of a Maori meeting house in the Maori Committee room at Parliament Buildings, Wellington, November 1955. Evening Post newspaper photograph. Photographer unidentified. Published in the Evening Post, Monday, 7 November, 1955, page 12. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 12 x 17.1 cm

Date: [190-?]

Reference: 1/2-C-002479-F

Description: Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [1930]

From: Thomson, John Mansfield, 1926-1999 : Photographs of Alfred Hill

Reference: 35mm-00478-c-F

Description: Alfred Hill and others in front of meeting house at Omori Pa, Lake Taupo. From left to right: Zoe Varney, Alfred Hill, Alexander Marky, Pene Pitere. Photograph taken circa 1900s by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - John Mansfield Thomson, A distant music the life and times of Alfred Hill 1870-1960 (Auckland, Oxford University Press, 1980) Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s) individual image on strip. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm