Putiki

Date: 1846 - 1847

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :[Sketchbook]

Reference: E-346-1-070

Description: View looking east along the Whanganui River from the opposite bank, with Putiki in the foreground, military tents on the town side, churches including Christ Church, houses, Rutland Stockade not yet complete and a fenced area around what was later York Stockade on the left. Jetties can also be seen. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: nd

From: McDonnell, Alexander Francis, 1866-1938 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0151-15B

Description: Contains letters from Maori with regard to land tenure (offers to sell land, and attempts to repudiate sales by others); the letters also contain requests for various items; Includes two sheets in Samoan Quantity: 1 folder(s) (26 leaves). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1898 - 1899

By: Coffey, Alfred, 1869-1950

Reference: A-114-019

Description: Seated full-length portrait of a young Maori woman (Tuhi). She is wrapped in a tag-style cloak and has a wreath of leaves in her hair Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Crayon 327 x 251 mm Provenance: Possibly acquired by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull.

By: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922

Reference: A-247-016

Description: A woman and child and three men with a horse haymaking beside a stream or river. The scene may be in the Putiki / Wanganui area, or may be imaginary Inscriptions: Verso - Most graciously and beautifully bestowed on Bertha Charlotte Augusta Taylor, Putiki Watanui, executed by me Mary Catherine Taylor on this twelth [sic] day of October in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and sixty-one". Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 79 x 107 mm on sheet 154 x 190 mm Transfers: Purchased with Harper/Taylor Ms Papers-0254, 1970.

Date: 1940 - 1942

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: E-302-q-4

Description: Kowhaiwhai patterns from a range of named sources, including Ohinemutu, Te Kuiti, Te Puke, Murupara, Putiki, Ohau, Rotorua, Ruatoria, Rotorua, Tokaanu. The first page is Godber's own ' Suggested design for a memorial archway at a bridge", using kowhaiwhai patterns for decoration. Presumed to have been done from 1940 to 1942. The first image is dated 23.7.40 and the last is dated 25.5.42 Quantity: 33 watercolour(s) on 11 pages. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 248 x 310 mm in sketchbook

Date: 1892 - 1893

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-013

Description: Looking along the Whanganui River on its south bank towards a bridge and houses on both sides of the river. A paddle-steamer is in the river and two people are walking along the road at the base of a cliff to the left. The area in the left background is likely to be Putiki, where the artist grew up Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook 130 x 180 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

Date: 1846 - 1969 - 1855

By: Gilfillan, John Alexander, 1793-1863; Walker, E, active 1850s; Day & Son (Firm); Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-013

Description: The interior of Putiki Pa, Wanganui --Same: 2nd, 3rd and 4th copies, nos. 5,6 and 7. No. 4 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Issued at $12. "Reproduced by courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.". i.e. a copy of the Library's lithograph of the scene, C-029-001 Sheet of descriptive text. Extended Title - Christchurch] Avon Fine Prints, 1969. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph in two colours 15 x 19.9 inches, on sheet 21.5 x 25 inches

Date: [ca1908]

From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums

By: Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931

Reference: PA1-f-179

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1890 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-035

Description: View looking east along the Whanganui River from the opposite bank, with Putiki in the foreground, and a telegraph pole, several houses and gardens on the opposite bank and, in the background, Mt Ruapehu with dark ash rising from its summit and from several other points Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: 1896 - 1899

By: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922; Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873; Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975

Reference: E-380

Description: Shows views of Maori buildings in Papawai and Te Ore Ore (Masterton area), the homesteads of A. Hutt and A. Hawdon at Underwood (possibly Port Underwood), Picton, Wanganui, Canterbury Plains (including Mt Peel, Rangitata), Feilding (including Lord Ranfurly's arrival there), Wairarapa, Levin (a Maori house), W. Maunsel's house in Masterton, the home of H. Nixon at Sedgebrook, and the Church Mission house at Waimate (Bay of Islands). This last is by Richard Taylor (Mary Medley's father), as is a view of St Sampson Church, Guernsey. At the back are loose sketches with copies of Edward Lear's illustrated limericks. Cranleigh Barton is a grandson of the artist. Inscriptions: (Inside front cover, inscribed by Cranleigh Barton) 15 Mary Medley's sketchbook.; Some works inscribed with title beneath image. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 24 pencil sketches, 43 watercolour and pencil works, in sketchbook 165 x 230 mm. Finding Aids: Shelf-list/inventory available - copy housed with sketchbook..

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1910s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-299

Description: Photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, circa 1890s-1900s. Most of the scenes are taken on a river boat trip up the Whanganui River, and include two of groups of Maori; one showing two nuns in full habit, walking behind three young Maori girls who are wearing ankle-length dresses. Some of the river scenes show stretches of the river, including several `on the rapids', and one of a group of men in a waka. Others are of the various villages passed on the trip, including one of the river boat tied up at Jerusalem, with a cart drawn by two horses alongside. One view shows the mouth of the Whanganui River at Patea, and from there the images are of the New Plymouth area, including Mount Taranaki (then Mount Egmont), the Sugar Loaves, the monument to Wiremu Tamati on the hill at Corbett Park (Oakura), and Opunake. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, impressed title `Photographs'; McIntosh XV, 15 765-814; 16 x 22 cm

Date: [190-?]

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-1598

Description: Photograph of Te Paku-o-te-rangi meeting house, Putiki Pa, taken ca 1900s by an unidentified photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print, 7.4 x 10.2 cm

Date: [1898-1899]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-f-195-52

Description: Scenes at Lake Papaitonga and Putiki, taken by unknown photographers. The top photograph (PA1-f-195-52-1) shows Lake Papaitonga, probably taken during a visit to Sir Walter Buller's property in 1899. The lower photograph (PA1-f-195-52-2) shows the tangi of Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui at Putiki, 24 April 1898. Note the kakahu (cloaks) draped over the fence. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Two photographic prints mounted on album page 416 x 286 mm (page size).

Date: 1860-1916

By: Booth family

Reference: MS-Papers-8129

Description: Photocopies of manuscript letters and transcripts of letters between members of the Booth family from 1860 to 1916; they were written from Putiki near Wanganui, Wanganui, Pipiriki, Gisborne and Wellington. The correspondents write of family and church affairs and of being new settlers; also of their involvement in the New Zealand Wars in the Wanganui area in the 1860s. Also includes `Descendants of Richard Booth' and photocopy of article on James Booth from the `Cyclopaedia of New Zealand' (vII, Auckland) Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (photocopies)

Date: 1970 - 1973

By: Wanganui Irises (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Wanganui

Description: Mail order catalogues issued by Wanganui Irises (D & J Cameron of Ngatarua Road, Putiki, Wanganui) listing irises for sale. Years held are: 1970/71, 1971/72, 1972/73. Quantity: 3 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, each around 215 x 140 mm.

Date: April 1988

By: New Zealand Oral History Archive

Reference: OHColl-0236

Description: Interviews a member from each of four generations of two families from the Wanganui region - the Stoneman family and the Mete Kingi family. Focuses on parent-child relationships, marriages, attitudes to alcohol and drugs and other social behaviour in the Stoneman family. Members of the Stoneman family interviewed are Cristal Stoneman, Sharon Stoneman, Ian Stoneman and Olive Olsen. Members of the Mete Kingi family talk about Maori culture, traditional life, loss of language and the relearning of it in the current generation, land disputes, attitudes to sex and Maori-Pakeha relations. Those interviewed are Aneka Erueti, Karen Erueti, Rangipo Mete Kingi and Wikitoria Mete Kingi. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Quantity: 8 printed abstract(s). 8 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 1930s?, 1970s?

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

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-10532-04

Description: Comprises photographic prints of Māori carvings and whare whakairo (carved houses) and details of parts of whare, including amo, poupou, tukutuku and kōwhaiwhai panels. Some of the images are of the Manutuke meeting house Te Mana o Turanga (written as 'Turanganui o Kiwa on the back of the print) and the photograph is attributed to Hall Raine. There are also images of the whare at Putiki Marae dated February 1971. A note on the back says "Tekoteko shows Aokehu (front of house now - new carvings)". Also includes some copy prints of early artworks of Māori people, including one by Augustus Earle. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Processing information: From box 11 in donor's list

By: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922

Reference: A-247-020

Description: View from the south bank of the Whanganui River, with a horse in the foreground, looking towards Shakespeare Cliff, and the houses on both the north and south banks, with the ferry plying across the river in the middle distance. Other Titles - Shakespeare Inscriptions: Verso - Shakespear's Cliff & the ferry Wanganui; Recto - title in brushpoint Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 176 x 250 mm Transfers: Purchased with Harper/Taylor Ms Papers-0254, 1970.

Date: 1878

By: Gilfillan, John Alexander, 1793-1863

Reference: A-019-009

Description: An interior view of a large pa (Putiki Pa on the Whanganui River) with a fenced compound, various whare and pataka, trees, carvings and groups of people Derived from lithograph "Interior of a native village or 'pa', in New Zealand situated near the town of Petre, at Wanganui.." after the original by J A Gilfillan Published in: Buller, J A. Forty years in New Zealand. London : 1878 op p.233 where in the preface the author acknowledges "For the use of many of the engravings, I am indebted to ... Sir Julius Vogel.." Probably a proof as engravings lack binder's directions Other Titles - Interior of a native village or pa situated near the town of Petre, Wanganui [original title] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 101 x 139 mm

Date: 1846 - 1969 - 1855

By: Gilfillan, John Alexander, 1793-1863; Walker, E, active 1850s; Day & Son (Firm); Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-013-b

Description: The interior of Putiki Pa, Wanganui No. 6 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Issued at $12. "Reproduced by courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.". i.e. a copy of the Library's lithograph of the scene, C-029-001 Sheet of descriptive text. Extended Title - Christchurch] Avon Fine Prints, 1969. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph in two colours 15 x 19.9 inches, on sheet 21.5 x 25 inches