Horouta

Date: 1897-1941

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0042

Description: Contains notes, records and research notes on the history of the East Coast and includes a critique of Horouta history, extensive whakapapa and correspondence Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1942

By: Phillipps, William John, 1893-1967

Reference: qMS-1588

Description: To W J Phillipps of the Dominion Museum, giving a list of carved houses on the East Coast Quantity: 1 volume(s) (5 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (35cm, grey covers) Processing information: Transferred from main collection, Oct 1978

Date: [1950-1960?]

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

Reference: 77-014-1/04

Description: Papers relating to Maori history, waka history, names and place names, particularly focussing on East Coast tribes, the crew of the Horouta waka and the Maori history of Titirangi [Gisborne region]. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: A chart titled "Maoritanga" was included in this folder, but the chart was flattened by conservation in 2013 and taken out of this folder as it no longer fitted. The chart's new reference number is MSO-Papers-11554..

Date: 1883

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B032

Description: Contains whakapapa from Wanganui and Wairarapa, whakatauki, waiata and narratives of conflicts involving Wairarapa hapu Enclosures - 1 portrait at beginning of book as well as 3 loose leaf pages with the letterhead `Fairbairn's New Occidental Hotel, Wellington' which contains whakapapa `na Paora Poihipi' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph (23 cm; marbled boards)

Date: [18--]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-098

Description: Contains waiata and haka from Ngati Porou and Ngati Kahungunu; contains cosmological notes about the creation of the universe; also contains narrative accounts about various demi-gods including Maui, Tawhaki and Pourangahua (this last account includes details of the fetching of the kumara to New Zealand); also contains an account of the Ngati Kahungunu migration to Heretaunga following conflicts involving Rakaihikuroa Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1944, 1972

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-061

Description: Two copies of the intrductory address (lecture one) by Sir Apirana Ngata at the opening of the Porourangi Maori Cultural School, Ruatoria, and lectures two and three (4 Apr 1944, copied 1972); and correspondence relating to this series of lectures Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1905

By: Wilson, George Henry, 1832-1905

Reference: MS-Papers-2738

Description: Tokomaru pa Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms

Date: [ca 1895-1898]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-163

Description: Notes on many topics, including: whakapapa, tribal notes, whakatauki (proverbs), fights, etc. Also includes waiata from Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Toa, Taranaki and Ngati Kuia (many of the waiata and karakia of Ngati Kuia were contributed by Eruera Pakauwera), and tribal stories and notes by Te Karehana Whakataki about Ngati Toa and Tainui. Also contains an accompanying letter from W Mair, Nov 8, 1898. Language - (and English) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (414 pages). Physical Description: Holograph, ms and typescript

Date: [18--]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-175

Description: Copy of some of Takaanui Tarakawa's papers in S P Smith's hand including many whakapapa for Te Arawa, Tainui, Tokomaru, Horouta, Takitimu, Tuamatua and others. The papers also include information about the arrival of the Te Arawa canoe and the Kurahaupo canoe, the legend of Hatupatu, details of Rongomaiwahine's relationship with Kahungunu, and discussions of Maori customary concepts including hau, hoa, mana, kura, whatukura and kawa; Some of this material is in JPS V 2 p168-171, 199-207. Also includes letter and notes to Smith from Walter Gudgeon severely critical of Tarakawa's whakapapa. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1803-1865

By: Williams, William Leonard, 1829-1916

Reference: MS-2452

Description: History of the East Coast people and district as seen from a missionary's view point. Many topics including hauhauism; land confiscation, Te Kooti; the murder of Rev C S Volkner; the work of the missionaries etc. Source of title - Transcribed from spine Quantity: 1 volume(s) (95 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph corrections (26cm, blue buckram)

Date: 1865 - 1894, 1920

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-006a

Description: Contains a Ngati Porou account of the campaign against the Hauhau on the East Coast, and the campaign against Te Kooti around Gisborne and the Urewera district; also contains notes about Maori customs surrounding the transfer of land, various waiata and information about the arrival of Christianity on the East Coast; also contains a biographical note and whakapapa about Te Kani-a-Takirau; there is also a letter dated 11 December 1920 from S P Smith to James Cowan with details of the provenance of the manuscript Relationship complexity - MS-Papers-1187-006b contains a complete translation of this text by Jane McRae Quantity: 1 volume(s) (150 pages).

Date: 1933-1934

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

Reference: MSY-5559

Description: Contains loan accounts relating to regional development schemes Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1861 - 1877

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B013

Description: Contains cosmological whakapapa with notes about the divine origin of various items and practices, including birds and trees; there are also narratives about Rata and the origin of canoe building and the revenge he took for the death of his father, conflicts between Uenuku and Whena, and the migrations and settlement of Paikea on the East Coast There is also narrative text about the Horouta canoe, and the migrations and conflicts of Ngati Ira; there are also karakia, waiata and whakapapa There is also narrative text about Ruawharo, Tupai and Timuwhakairia before their departure from Hawaiki, their training as tohunga, their fetching of atua and the voyage of Takitimu, narrative text about Niwareka and Mataora and the development of tattooing, and narrative about the adventures of Maui Other - The contents of this book, I presume, has been copied into another book because each page has been `crossed' with the words `done' written over it. On some pages are the words `done in copy'. The contents of book is still readable Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume). Physical Description: Vellum, 25 cm., vol numbered 8

Date: 1896-1899

From: Summersby, Reginald Francis Hinga, 1936-2014 : Papers re Ngati Porou

Reference: MSY-4563

Description: Contains comprehensive Ngati porou whakapapa, and includes an account of the migration of the Ngati Ira people to New Zealand with related traditional information; also contains a listing of the crew of the Horouta canoe, Ngati Porou months of the year, Ngati Porou waiata and karakia, notes about Tuwhakairiora and Ruataupare, and notes about the administration of a farming collective and sheep flocks Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (in grey phase box)

Date: [ca 1900-1911]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-044

Description: Contains a 6-page notebook of songs and chants with a note at the beginning by S P Smith saying `sent to me by G H Davies, Karore April, 1911'. In Maori the notebook includes notes on Kaioraora (cursing songs) by Topeora, and a waiata `E pa to hau ke Te Wairau e'. Inside the back cover is a copy of a letter in Maori from S P Smith to Whatahoro, New Plymouth 29 August 1911. Several pages relating to legend, waiata and other matters in several hands. Legends include Mataora, Tumatauenga and Kongomaraeroa; Tura and Whiro; Tamatea and the moa; Mataoho; Maui; Tane and others. Some of this material may be from a Ngati Porou source; One section is headed `Waiata a Te Whatu', and there are various waiata among the text which Davies claims have been sung before the Maori Land Court in the Hawkes Bay area. There is also an explanation in Maori and English of the expression `Ariki tapairu' signed by Rawiri Te Rangi Rangikauri. A covering letter from Davies to S P Smith, dated 18 Jul 1902, offering them to the Polynesian Society for publication. There is also an undated note from Elsdon Best to Smith forwarding a letter from Tamahau (Mahupuku?), sent by Davies for publication. An unsigned paper in Maori is probably the letter referred to. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1882]-1884

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-126

Description: Includes a 11 Dec 1908 covering letter from T W Downes and an explanation in Maori by Potae, 2 Apr 1882, on the provenance of the mss. The text of the manuscript contains extensive whakapapa from Ngati Porou, with information about many people alive in the 19th century; there is also some whakapapa from Wairarapa, and an account of the creation of the universe and the seperation of Rangi and Papa by their children Quantity: 1 volume(s). Provenance: Title-page note by S P Smith says "Copy of ms in possession of H T Whatahoro (now of Whanganui) as dictated by Henare Potae of Tokomaru, East Coast, and by other tohungas of that coast. Copied by T W Downes of Whanganui and presented by him to the Polynesian Society, 1908".

Date: [18--]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-192

Description: A translation in S P Smith's hand, with explanatory notes, of a story supplied by Wahawaha. Also includes Maori texts of iri spell given by Wahawaha and a variant version. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 leaves). Physical Description: Mss

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Huka, Ngari, -1915

Reference: MS-Papers-11040

Description: Ngari Huka of Ngati Porou, won the `New Zealand war medal'. He lived and is buried in Mohaka Quantity: 1 folder(s) (77 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs J Niblett (greatgrandaughter), Wellington, 1987

Date: 1943-1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Centennial Publications Branch : Historical Atlas material

Reference: MS-Papers-0230-008

Description: Correspondence and letters concerning the history and activities of whalers in New Zealand during the early and mid 18th century. Mostly concerns activities in Northland, Kawhia and Tauranga. Also includes extracts of verbatim evidence from various Maori from these districts. Also includes whakapapa for the Kennedy family from Ngati Porou, and biographical information for the Kennedy, Mair, Clendon, Tapsell & other families. Includes census of Europeans residing in Northern District, 1846 (from Clendon mss in Auckland Public Library) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [18--]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-094

Description: Contains many myths and legends, probably written by Ihaka Whaanga, starting with Rangi and Papa and including information about the creation of the universe and the establishment of various customary practices; notes about the activities of Maui; also includes information about conflicts at Hawaiki; also includes an account of the introduction of the kumara to New Zealand by Pourangahua and a related whakapapa; includes information about the Takitimu migration from Hawaiki led by Tamatea, conflicts at Turanga involving Rakaihikuroa and others, and traditions about the Ngati Te Whatuiapiti hapu. The apparent contents list at the front does not correspond with contents. In Maori. Quantity: 1 volume(s).