Ngāti Pamoana
H T Whatahoro Jury - Maori land note book
Date: 1884-1897
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B017
Description: Contains whakapapa, and boundaries of land blocks in Whangaehu and related notes about ownership, whakapapa, related hapu, mahinga kai, and occupation issues (this appears to have been an extract from the sitting of the Maori Land Court or a Native Committee) Contains information about conflicts involving tribes in the Wanganui district, and karakia Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Maroon paper covers, 20 cm., vol numbered 10
Smith, Elsie, 1881-1968 : Scrapbook
Date: [ca 1929-1940]
By: Smith, Elsie, 1881-1968
Reference: MSX-4892
Description: The scrapbook is mostly for the years 1929-1935 and includes many clippings, articles, postcards and photographs particularly relating to the Whanganui River area, Maori and church work in New Zealand Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-1017 for further papers relating to Elsie Smith The scrapbook is presumed to have been kept by Sister Elsie Smith after she left the Marton district in 1930 for missionary work with the Anglican Church based at Koroniti on the Whanganui River, where she worked for 33 years Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Printed matter (grey phase box) Provenance: Found at St Mark's Vicarage, Carterton by the current vicar and his wife, Peter and Barbara Nunn. May have belonged to the previous vicar, the Rev Bill Otter.
H T Whatahoro Jury - Whakapapa and minute book
Date: 1886,1892,1895,1902,1904,1905
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-129
Description: Contains whakapapa from Wairarapa, Ngati Porou and Tuhoe; also contains notes from the sitting of the Maori Land Court at Wanganui with information about historical occupation and use of land, related whakapapa, the sites of pa and kainga and lists of contemporary owners Also contains notes about the Te Arawa canoe, waiata, a copy of instructions regarding the administration of land in the Wanganui area, and cosmological whakapapa Contains notes about the boundaries of land owned by hapu living around Lake Wairarapa, and the pa and kainga that they lived in; also contains a copy of a letter to Sir James Carroll about the administration and management of reserves near the Lake Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss
H T Whatahoro Jury - Maori land notebook
Date: 1897
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B019
Description: Contains whakapapa, and extracts from Maori Land Court evidence about land in the Wanganui district, including information about ownership, related whakapapa and occupation history, lists of owners and successions Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume). Physical Description: Ms (33 cm; marbled paper covers)
Papers relating to the general duties of Resident Magistrate Upper Wanganui
Date: 1863-1874
From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0075-034
Description: Includes a list of native assessors, wardens and police, and a census for Mangawhero, Whanganui. Also includes a printed court order (hamene = summons ?) to appear before a Magistrate or assessor, printed in Maori. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece level inventory available.
Letters in Maori
Date: 1865
From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0075-031C
Description: Maori correspondence mostly from the Whanganui district relating tribal activities, affairs and matters relating to land. Includes lists of names for Maori living at Parewanui; report from a meeting between Governor Grey, Major Kemp (Te Ranghiwinui), and various hapu from Whanganui; a letter about Epiha Patapu, native policeman from Whanganui who gave an oath of allegience to the Queen. Also includes letter from Wikitoa Taringakuri (aka Te Kaeaea) offering to sell large amounts of land in Wellington because of his extreme age and inability to collect the rents of his properties. Arrangement: Previously from 1/1 Official Correspondence series Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece level inventory available.
Maori at Koriniti
Date: 1961
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0082-F
Description: Maori at Koriniti in 1961. 3 images of 2 Maori men with a Maori infant; 7 images of children alongside a tekoteko (carved figure on the gable of a house); 2 of a woman and children in a river. Photographs by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.
Young boys, Maori woman washing clothes, at a Pentecostal mission hui, Koriniti
Date: 1961
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0076-F
Description: Maori at a religious hui organised by the Pentecostal mission at Koriniti, 1961. Shows 8 images of a Maori woman washing clothes outside in an aluminuim bath; 3 photographs of young Maori boys; 1 photograph of a Pakeha boy and a Maori boy seated side by side. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives were digitised by Suite Tirohanga.
Hardie Shaw Studios : Portrait of Tuka Orangi
Date: [ca 1900]
By: Hardie Shaw Studios
Reference: 1/2-091473-F
Description: Portrait of Tuka Orangi, [or Tuka Aorangi?] circa 1900. Photograph by Hardie Shaw Studios. Portrait of an elderly Māori man wearing a korowai (tag cloak). He is balding with white hair and a moustache, and moko. Original photograph likely to have been taken by William Henry Thomas Partington, circa 1900, probably in the Whanganui region. Previously wrongly identified as Patara Te Tuhi. The man has also been identified as Hairawanui. The same image is held by the Whanganui Museum where he is identified as Tuka Aorangi of Ngāti Pamoana, Koroniti. He is identifed as Tuka Orangi of Koroniti in another print (1/1-003097). Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - [... ?] Maori, N.Z. 5009 Hardy Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Potanga Waiata of Koriniti, Wanganui River - Photographer unidentified
Date: ca 1910?
From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
Reference: PAColl-3060-043
Description: Full length standing portrait of Waiata Potanga of Koroniti (Wanganui River). He wears a white tipped feather in his hair, a taniko sash across his chest, and a piupiu with a taniko waistband. He holds a taiaha. Photograph taken (circa 1910?) by an unidentified photographer. Not published in 'Making New Zealand' Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.1 x 10.8 cm Provenance: Item lent by the Dominion Museum to the Department of Internal Affairs for publication in 'Making New Zealand' in 1939. Processing information: Formerly filed in Turnbull Library Pictures at: 920. Waiata, Potanga
Woman beating bark at Koriniti, Wanganui
Date: 1921
From: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935 :Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-257-38-1
Description: Unidentified Maori woman beating bark against rocks, at Koriniti, Wanganui, photographed by James McDonald in 1921, during a ethnographic expedition held under the auspices of the Dominion Museum. Shows her seated on a flax mat on the ground, alongside two gourds. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10.3 x 15.2 cm, on album page
Women outside meeting house, Koriniti
Date: [ca 1910s?]
From: Chappell, George A, fl 1900-1928 :Negatives, chiefly of gold mining at Waihi
Reference: PAColl-3076-1-03
Description: Photograph of four Maori women standing in front of the carved whare runanga (meeting house) at Koriniti on the east bank of the Whanganui River, taken circa 1910s? by George A Chappell. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 18.8 x 12.1 cm
Maori men and infant, Maori woman hanging out washing, at a Christmas Pentacostal missi...
Date: 1961
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0081-F
Description: Maori at a Christmas hui organised by the Pentecostal mission at Koriniti, 1961. 3 images of a Maori woman hanging clothes out on a line; 3 images of two Maori men; 6 images of the same men with a Maori infant. Photographs by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.
Burton Brothers (Dunedin), 1868-1898 :Overlooking the Maori village at Koriniti
Date: [between ca 1868-1898]
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 7
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-6001-44
Description: Overlooking the Maori village at Koriniti, taken between circa 1868-1898, by the Burton Brothers studio. Other Titles - Koroniti - (Corinth) Wanganui River Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3513 - Koroniti - (Corinth-) Wanganui River. Burton Bros. Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Maori at a Christmas Pentacostal mission hui, Koriniti
Date: 1961
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0094-F
Description: Maori at a Christmas hui organised by the Pentecostal mission at Koriniti, 1961. Includes 5 images of a group of children playing with a guitar; 1 image of Wai-Herehere meeting house; 5 other images. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives were digitised by Suite Tirohanga.
Elderly Maori man holding a Maori infant, Koroniti
Date: 1961
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0070-F
Description: Koroua (elderly Maori man) holding a Maori infant in his arms. Photograph taken in 1961 by Ans Westra at Koriniti. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.
Maori group preparing to smoke eels, Koriniti
Date: 1921
From: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935 :Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-257-78-3
Description: Poutama Te ture (left), his wife, and another, preparing to smoke eels at Korinti. Photograph taken by James Ingram McDonald in 1921. Inscriptions: Album page - right of image - Koriniti old kitchen; Album page - beneath image - Poutama Te Ture & wife Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Poutama Te Ture and family, Koriniti
Date: [1921]
From: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935 :Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-257-78-2
Description: Poutama Te ture and family cooking fish (probably eel or lamprey) at Koriniti, photographed by James McDonald in 1921. Inscriptions: Album page - right of image - Koriniti - old kitchen; Album page - beneath image - Poutama Te Ture & wife Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 104 x 153 mm mounted on album page
Māori carvings, communities and activities
Date: [between 1880-1970s]
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: PAColl-6056-09
Description: Photographs taken between1880 and 1979 of rangatira, tāngata Māori, and Māori communities and activities, along with a variety of photographs relating to taonga, wharenui, and toi whakairo. Also contains images of Māori on thirteen 'Three Castles Virginia Cigarette" cigarette cards, and hand sketched lithographs of facial moko designs. Some of the images are annotated on the reverse. Three photographs relating to Te Poho o Rangiahua meeting house in Frasertown, near Wairoa have the words 'On loan from Maori Affairs Dept' annotated on the reverse. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 70 b&w original photographic print(s). 14 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Transfers: Two letters found with photographic prints PAColl-6056-09; 32 and 33 are at MS-Papers-12909-6.. Processing information: Letters separated from photographic prints for preservation and storage reasons.