Men, Tongan

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: 1820 - 1840

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Gothstrom & Magnusson (Firm)

Reference: A-282-009

Description: Upper view: Two-storied wooden house surrounded with plaited fibre fences. A man is cutting logs with an axe in the left foreground, while a male missionary reads, probably from the Bible to a Tongan man, woman and child on the right. There is another Tongan seated on the ground near the house and another carrying a load towards the house's front door. Lower view: A river in the foreground with a canoe. A Tongan woman is stepping into the water behind the canoe. Beyond her are trees and a plaited fibre fence with a large two-storied European-style house in the background. Plate 160 from an unknown Swedish publication, probably a missionary journal. The upper image is redrawn from the engraving by Sainson, in Vol 1, opp. p.59, Plate 7, the lower from Vol 2, opposite p.70, plate 9 in Voyage pittoresque autour du monde by J. S. C. Dumont d'Urville (Paris, 1834-5). The Swedish language version of Voyage Pittoresque ... (held by the Library at 910.4 /P/DUM) is duodecimo size and has no illustrations. It was published between 1836 and 1840. Language - (translated from the original in French) Other Titles - House of the missionaries at Hifo, Tonga; First home of the missionaries at Tonga Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage pittoresque autour du monde. Paris, 1834-1835 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) 2 lithographs on 1 sheet. Physical Description: Lithographs 77 x 124 mm and 91 x 132 mm on sheet 276 x 230 mm Provenance: Purchased by the vendor in Stockholm in 1980 from a print dealer. Said to be illustrations from a missionary journal.

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: 1777 - 1835 - 1838 - 1836 - 1843

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

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Montaut, Gabriel Xavier, 1798-1852

Reference: A-318-002

Description: Shows an outdoor meeting with male figures seated in a circle around two protagonists; one of these two (the 'King') sits crosslegged with a low half-unrolled woven screen behind him, and the other prostrates himself at the knees of the king. In the background are dwellings, palm trees and mountains. This engraving copies an engraving from an original drawing by Webber, showing similar figures but in an interior setting, with beam and rafter construction above all the participants. Plate 18 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. French edition (1835-36), has same plate and has the additional information that Danvin was the copyist for this plate, and Montaut was the engraver. Other Titles - Assemblie ou l'on boit le Cava Other Titles - Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking Kava Other Titles - Gesellscaft wo man Cava trinkt Other Titles - Ceremony where kava is drunk 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 - 18 Webber accompanied the third voyage of Captain Cook, 1776-80. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: ca 1930s

Reference: 1/2-003381-F

Description: Group of Tongan men seated on the ground in front of racks of roasted pigs. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1838 - 1835 - 1843 - 1836

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; Chollet, active 1835-36

Reference: A-318-052

Description: Shows the trunk and lower branches of a tree beside the water (at left). Several men are stretching a rope around part of the base. Plate 195 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist, and Cholet as the engraver. Other Titles - Iles Tonga - Arbre Colossal Other Titles - Tonga - Huge tree 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 - 195 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 216 x 141 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: 1773

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797

Reference: A-211-030

Description: Full-length portrait of Attago, a Tongan chief. He is shown draped in cloth, a large curved nail in his raised right hand above his head, stepping up onto a bank, with a dwelling and a palm tree behind him to the right. The little finger on his right hand has the top joint missing. The large curved nail placed on the subject's head was a sign of appreciation. The chopped off little finger was a sign of mourning in Tonga society. The upper part of the body is derived from the engraving by Sherwin after Hodges in Cook, James. A voyage towards the South Pole ... London, 1777, Vol. I, pl. 40. However the complete picture with the full body, the drapery, dwelling and palm, and the stance, appear in a drawing in the Library by Francesco Galimberti, titled Otago chef de l'Isle d'Amsterdam dans la mer Pacifique du sud (reference number E-215-q-001) Language - Armenian Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - K'ik'megk. A handwritten caption in ink, in Armenian script, transliterated as the equivalent of k'ik'megh Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 275 x 201 mm on sheet 320 x 230 mm

Date: 1841 - 1779

By: Smith, Charles Hamilton, 1776-1859

Reference: B-091-001

Description: View of a clearing surrounding by houses in Tonga. A copy of a 1779 drawing by John Webber, from Captain Cook's third voyage to Oceania, published in Cook and King, A voyage to the Paciific Ocean ... 1784 as Plate 21 Title from inscription below image From engraving by W W Ellis after drawing by Webber, published as plate 21 in: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean... 1784 Joppien / Smith number 3.59B. Inscriptions: bottom right - Signed in ink: and dated 24-6-41 in pencil below image, with inscription "C58. Tongatapu Island" Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil, 198 x 294 mm on sheet 530 x 410 mm

Date: 1803

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Honkoop (Firm); Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: B-054-020

Description: A head and shoulders frontal portrait of Poulaho, chief of Tonga in the 1770s. He wears a fan-shaped feathered headdress Derived from engraving by Webber on Cook's 3rd voyage in: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784. Pl. 18 Other Titles - Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands [translation] Tonga Extended Title - Published in: Cook, James. Reizen rondom de waereld. Pl. 84 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving b&w, 225 x 148, mm on sheet 263 x 175 mm

Date: 1977-1979

By: Crane, Ernest Arthur, 1915-1996

Reference: PAColl-6186

Description: Tonga and its people; its industries, public occasions, town life, crops, forestry, agriculture, village life, and Royalty. There are photographs of the scenic side of Tonga, places, geology, and geography. Tourists and the tourist experience of Tonga are also recorded. At some time between 1984 and 2000 all the prints relating to Tonga were returned to Ernest Crane. Wendy Crane returned these when she donated negatives in February 2000. As a result they have been given a different PAColl number. Arrangement: Related negatives are housed at 35mm 28046 to 35mm 28223 and 1/4-090473 to 1/4-090476. Quantity: 177 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1782 - 1786

By: Hogg and Company; Hodges, William, 1744-1797

Reference: A-111-040

Description: Two individual head and shoulders portraits on one sheet, showing young men, one from Bora Bora and one from Tonga (known at one time as Amsterdam). Derived from engravings after Hodges on Cook's 2nd voyage in: Cook, J. A voyage towards the South Pole. London, 1777. Pl. 35 & 40 Other Titles - Bora Bora Other Titles - Ataongo Extended Title - From G W Anderson, "A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages round the world", plate 28 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) (2 ill). Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, 236 x 350 mm, on sheet 249 x 367 mm

Date: 1774 - 1778

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Hogg and Company

Reference: A-466-002

Description: Shows three double-hulled canoes of Tonga, all with shelters and sails. Two of the canoes are manned by two people, the other by one. As observed on Cook's second voyage to the Pacific See also other similar works in the collections, at B-054-047, and a Dutch version at B-054-046 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on laid paper, 235 x 365 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, The Barry Cash photographic collection and private vendors auction, 16 October, 2014; lot P433

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-

Reference: A-318-060

Description: Shows a rowboat at the left, full of fighting Tongans and Europeans, with the Tongans triumphant. A row of Tongans pulls the boat ashore by rope, and other groups lead off captives or simply watch from the shore on the right. Purported to show an incident with the crew of the "Astrolabe" in 1827, but the image is based on the painting by Hodges made in 1775-6. Plate 212 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist. Similar image appears in Dumont d'Urville's "Voyage pittoresque autour du monde". Other Titles - Archipel de Tonga - Enlevement d'un canot par les Indigenes Other Titles - The landing at Middleburgh (Eua), one of the Friendly Isles (1775-6) Other Titles - Tonga - Capture of a canoe by the natives 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 - 212 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: 1820 - 1840

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Gothstrom & Magnusson (Firm)

Reference: A-282-010

Description: Upper view: Beach with several canoes on the left, palms along the beach with a group sitting in a circle outside a Tongan dwelling. Lower view: A Tongan building on the left, with an open door. A kneeling person is visible inside the door. Another man is seated in the foreground, outside the building and beyond a low rise surrounded by trees is the roof of a second building. Plate 161 from an unknown Swedish publication, probably a missionary journal. The upper image is redrawn from the engraving by Sainson, in Vol 2, opp. p.22 Plate 3, the lower from Vol 2, opposite p.46 plate 6 in Voyage pittoresque autour du monde by J. S. C. Dumont d'Urville (Paris, 1834-5). The Swedish language version of Voyage Pittoresque ... (held by the Library at 910.4 /P/DUM) is duodecimo size and has no illustrations. It was published between 1836 and 1840. Language - (translated from the original in French) Other Titles - A kava ceremony on the beach at Nomuka, Tonga; Tombs or faitokas in Tongatapu Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage pittoresque autour du monde. Paris, 1834-1835 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) 2 lithographs on 1 sheet. Physical Description: Lithographs 92 x 119 mm and 96 x 129 mm on sheet 276 x 230 mm Provenance: Purchased by the vendor in Stockholm in 1980 from a print dealer. Said to be illustrations from a missionary journal.

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

By: Gallina, Gallo, 1796-1874; Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: A-211-011

Description: A variation of Webber's image of a group of Tongans in a wall-less meeting house. All are seated cross-legged watching the two central figures. One sits surrounded by a small unfurled border or frieze, while the other figure is on all fours with head bowed towards the first figure. Derived from an engraving by John Webber on Cook's third voyage in Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Longon, 1784. Pl 20 Another copy held at A-340-055 Other Titles - Friendly Islands Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: G. Gallina F[ecit]. Plate number 80 top right; Recto - bottom centre - Isola degli Amici [in pencil] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint (hand-coloured) 194 x 284 mm on sheet 252 x 360 mm

Date: 1777 - 1773

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Johnson, Isaac, active 1799-1816

Reference: A-111-024

Description: The Tongan chief Otago, a garment draped over his right shoulder, his right hand raised with a large nail, which he is placing on his head, a sign of appreciation. His little finger is chopped off, a sign of mourning in early Tongan society Title from engraving of same subject by J K Sherwin after drawing by W Hodges, published in: Cook, J. A voyage towards the South Pole... London 1777. Plate 40 Sotheby's catalogue suggests that this and A-111-023 may be studies for engravings, based on Hodges' original sketches. However they may also be based on the engravings by Sherwin, done from Hodges' drawings, since they bear little resemblance to Hodges known original drawings. Hodges' drawing for 'Otago' is in the Mitchell Library (Joppien Smith number 2. 75) and shows the chief without clothing and facing in the opposite direction. Watermarked: J. W. WHATMAN The artist may be Isaac Johnson, mentioned as an antiquarian artist of the late eighteenth century in Benezit's Dictionnaire des Peintres. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - signature and number Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Grey wash on laid paper, 265 x 210 mm

Date: 1884

From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Burton, Alfred Henry, 1834?-1914

Reference: PA1-f-315

Description: Photographs of Samoa, Fiji, and Tonga taken by Alfred Burton on a cruise of these islands on the Ship "Wairarapa" in 1884. It appears that this album was compiled by a fellow passenger on the Wairarapa See also "The Camera in the Coral Islands : a series of photographs illustrating the the scenery and the mode of life in the Fijis, the Navigator Islands (Samoa), the Friendly Islands (Tonga) taken during the two trips to the South Seas of the Union S.S. Co.'s "Wairarapa", in June and July, 1884 / by Burton Brothers" held in the Alexander Turnbull Library at Pam NZ.PAM 6477 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1884

From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Burton, Alfred Henry, 1834?-1914

Reference: PA1-f-178

Description: Photographs of Samoa, Fiji, and Tonga taken by Alfred Burton on a cruise of these islands on the Ship "Wairarapa" in 1884. It appears that this album was compiled by a fellow passenger on the Wairarapa See also "The Camera in the Coral Islands : a series of photographs illustrating the the scenery and the mode of life in the Fijis, the Navigator Islands (Samoa), the Friendly Islands (Tonga) taken during the two trips to the South Seas of the Union S.S. Co.'s "Wairarapa", in June and July, 1884 / by Burton Brothers" held in the Alexander Turnbull Library at Pam NZ.PAM 6477 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).