Pā in Gisborne, on the summit of a hill also known as Ngatapa, apparently built on an existing pre-European site. The pā was the site of a siege and defeat of Te Kooti by colonial forces and kūpapa under Whitmore in December 1868.
Ngatapa Pā
Artist unknown :Ngatapa Pah, Poverty Bay, New Zealand. Lately captured from the Maoris....
Date: 1869
From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]
Reference: E-106-f-026-2
Description: Shows distant view of Mount Ngatapa and the Maori pa on its summit. In the foreground are soldiers, one on horseback. Includes accompanying article entitled `Capture of Maori Pah'. Another copy at E-043-q-073 Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, v54, April 1869, p332 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, 150 x 240 mm
Artist unknown :Ngatapa Pah, Poverty Bay, New Zealand. Lately captured from the Maoris....
Date: 1869
From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]
Reference: E-043-q-073
Description: Shows distant view of Mount Ngatapa and the Maori pa on its summit. In the foreground are soldiers, one on horseback. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, stuck to page 215 x 275 mm
Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898 :Ngatapa from the east / Star Steam Litho. - [Auckland...
Date: 1887
By: Star Steam Printing Company; Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898
Reference: A-109-053
Description: Looking across hills towards Ngatapa Pa, atop the highest hill in the middle distance. Extended Title - Published in: Gudgeon, T W. The defenders of New Zealand. From original by J C Richmond (cf. A-048-011;; Ngatapa...) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured lithograph, 179 x 290 mm on sheet 242 x 324 mm
Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, fl 1856-1870 :Plan of Ngatapa Pa, Poverty Bay tak...
Date: 1869
By: Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1882
Reference: Plans-80-1218-a
Description: Map of the Pa, showing the defensive positions of Major Fraser, Hotene with Ngatiporo, Major Roberts, Wickliffe, Ropata with Ngatiporo, the mortar battery, and Colonel Whitmore. Also shown are the earthworks including rifle-pits within the pa, a chapel and deforested land covered with stumps and branches Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 442 x 282 mm
Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, fl 1856-1870 :Plan of Ngatapa Pa, Poverty Bay tak...
Date: 1869
By: Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1882
Reference: Plans-80-1218
Description: Map of the Pa, showing the defensive positions of Major Fraser, Hotene with Ngatiporo, Major Roberts, Wickliffe, Ropata with Ngatiporo, the mortar battery, and Colonel Whitmore. Also shown are the earthworks including rifle-pits within the pa, a chapel and deforested land covered with stumps and branches Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 442 x 282 mm
Cooke, Albert Charles, 1836-1902 :View of Ngatapa Pa, New Zealand. A.C., S.C. [Publishe...
Date: 1869
From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]
By: Calvert, Samuel, 1828-1913; Cooke, Albert Charles, 1836-1902
Reference: E-043-q-019
Description: Shows distant view of Mount Ngatapa and the Maori pa on its summit. In the foreground are soldiers, one on horseback looking at the pa through a telescope. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, stuck to page 215 x 275 mm
Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, fl 1856-1870 :Plan of Ngatapa Pa, Poverty Bay tak...
Date: 1869
By: Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1882
Reference: Plans-80-1218-b
Description: Map of the Pa, showing the defensive positions of Major Fraser, Hotene with Ngatiporo, Major Roberts, Wickliffe, Ropata with Ngatiporo, the mortar battery, and Colonel Whitmore. Also shown are the earthworks including rifle-pits within the pa, a chapel and deforested land covered with stumps and branches Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 442 x 282 mm
Superintendent, Hawkes Bay and Government Agent, East Coast - Sketch maps, plans etc of...
Date: 1869
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0025A
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
New Zealand. General Survey Office : Plan of Ngatapa Pa (Poverty Bay) taken by Col Whit...
Date: 1884
From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand
By: New Zealand. General Survey Office
Reference: MapColl-NZGB-5/28/363-2/Acc.55219
Description: Topographical map of Ngatapa Pa with details of buildings, earthworks, and an area described as "Ground cleared of Bush but covered with stumps and branches". Photolithographed at the General Survey Office, Wellington, May 1884. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed map on linen-backed paper, 43 x 34 cm