Ohinemutu Pā

Date: [before 1885]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-45-44

Description: View of the Maori village of Ohinemutu looking towards Lake Rotorua. There are a large number of people near the foreshore looking towards the photographer. St Faith's Church has not yet been erected. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril in 1870s or early 1880s St Faith's church building was consecrated on 15 Mar 1885 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 26.2 x 35.5 cm

Date: 1901

Reference: PA1-f-064

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. Scenes include the arrival of the royal visitors at various places, by ship, Royal carriages, and Royal train; ceremonies and rites welcoming them; views of triumphal arches erected for the tour, including Marble Arch (Queen Street, Auckland), the Auckland Harbour Board Arch, the Citizen's Arch (Wellesley Street), and the Government Arch (City of Wellington). Other ceremonies are associated with the presentation of war-medals; the laying of foundation stones (Victoria College for Maori Girls, Parnell, Auckland), the Wellington Town Hall, and the Queens Memorial Statue in Dunedin); and the march past and inspection of various guards, troops and veterans. One photograph shows Lord Ranfurly in Auckland, reading the proclamation extending the boundaries of the colony to include the Cook Islands (p 16). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Visit of Duke of Cornwall and York (King George V.). 1901. Maoris - Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch". Hand-printed in ink on slip attached to front cover.

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Evans, I, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-1519

Description: Photographs taken on holiday in New Zealand by woman identified as I Evans. Comprises photographs of men, women and children from Tuhourangi and Arawa iwi, many in traditional costume; Model Village at Whakarewarewa; Ohinemutu Pa; Lake Rotorua; Guide Ruth, Ana Hato; Guide Rangi; Wairakei geysers; Rotomahana; buried forest; Arapuni; Hongi's Track; Lake Taupo; Wellington Harbour from Ngaio; tobacco growing at Riwaka; apple packing shed at Redwood's Valley, Nelson; Devils Boots, Collingwood; Government Buildings, Wellington; Wainui House, Nelson; houseboat, Whanganui River; self-portraity of photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 151 x 202 mm Provenance: Purchase, 2009

Date: [1880s-1900s?]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Iles, James, active 1878; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-518

Description: Includes photographs of Maori artefacts in museum context. Possibly created by James Edge-Partington, an anthropologist who studied artefacts in New Zealand and the Pacific. This volume is in the same style of album, with similar photographs and articles as Webster album 4 (PA1-o-519) which has Edge-Partington's named bookplate inside the front cover. Studies of a variety of artefacts including an instrument giving a decoy call for kiwi; a sea leopard's tooth carved and worn as a pendant (from Stewart Island); whale teeth pendants; weapons; tools; carved waka, prows of waka; carved meeting houses; Te Kooti's house "Te Waho"; carved storehouses; a Maori kite; eel traps and fish hooks. The artefacts are from various collections in New Zealand and overseas, including the Chapman Collection, the Hamilton Collection, the Hocken Collection and General Robley's Collection. Cuttings from articles written by James Edge-Partington from anthropological journals are inserted in the album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Abum with dark grey cover; 26 x 21 cm

Date: [before 1885]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-27

Description: View looking over the village of Ohinemutu towards Lake Rotorua and Mokoia Island (on left). In the foreground is a fenced off area under cultivation. St Faith's Church has not yet been erected. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril in 1870s St Faith's church building was consecrated on 15 Mar 1885 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 23 x 25.8 cm

Date: 1860 - 1870

Reference: MapColl-832.18hkcmf/1860s/Acc.5104

Description: Map of the fortified Ohinemutu pa site, Rotorua, depicting Captain Main's redoubt. Shows 'Tiki' (carved gateway), stockades (two lines) and ditch surrounding three sides of the site, 'Paepae-mohoao' (old whares), 'Pukaki' (carved gateway), 'Maharo' (Captain Main's redoubt), 'Te Hina-a-Maui' (old kumara gardens), 'Te Pono' (sacred to the god Makawe), 'Hiraua' (covered with houses and kumara gardens), 'Pa-nui-o-marama' (carved gateway) near the Catholic Church; shows the position of '?Parapato'. The fourth side of the site is the Lake Rotorua. This map is comprised of two separate maps overlaid on each other. One is in ink and outlines the traditional positions within the pa site (as well as Captain Main's redoubt). The other is a pencil map depicting roads, paths, a football ground, dwellings, and 'Te Rua o te Manui'. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on dressed linen, scale indeterminable, 32 x 45 cm.

Date: 1841 - 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-028

Description: Six drawings on one page. 'Ohinemutu', a pen and ink drawing, shows one end of the surrounding palisade, with carved gateway. 'Waipa' shows a hill in the background, a small fenced structure in the right foreground and toetoe framing the view on both sides. 'Kuripopo' is a pencil drawing of a seated young woman wearing a smock. [Challenge with spear] shows one man threatening a seated figure, watched by a crowd. 'A native house ... Maketu' shows the front porch of a carved whare with door and one window. (These two drawings were copied by G F Angas for his 1847 publication). 'Otawao Pah, Waipa' shows Otawhao Pa in the distance with a foreground of dead tree trunks. Other Titles - Otawhao pa Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pen and ink, pencil and watercolour drawings

Date: 1841 - 1843

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-122-b

Description: A group of Maori in haka formation, holding canoe paddles in the air. They are dancing in front of Ohinemutu pa's palisades. Large whare and pataka are visible beyond the palisades. Several waka are on the beach to the right, with one tied up in the foreground. Further people are seated and standing to the right A drawing copied by G F Angas in 1844 without acknowledgement to Merrett. It was reproduced as a lithograph in Angas' The New Zealander illustrated (London, 1847), plate 53 Other Titles - Ohinemutu pa Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of ink and wash drawing

Date: 1900

By: New Zealand. General Assembly Library

Reference: MapColl-832.1896/[1900]/Acc.10970

Description: Drawn on a published map, the annotations depict Rotorua's present water mains and the mains required as at ca. 1900. Shows existing main from the Ohinemutu Native village (Pa), to the fountain at the Pukerua Recreation Reserve, the jail residence, the wharf, and along parts of some streets including Fenton, Hinemoa, and Arawa. Shows open drain in the Public Square. Shows main required in the central business district from 'The Parade', past the school endowments and the railway station on Fenton St. Two pencil notes on map: 'Towns series' and 'HR 1900 Petition 432 S.T. Brent'. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, linen backed, scale [ca. 1:6 336], 40 x 48 cm.

Date: 1840 - 1848

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-216-f-023

Description: Shows a view of the pa from the lake with two Maori canoes in the water in the foreground. Figures stand or bathe in the water on the shore, which is lined with a palisade around the pa dwellings and carved posts. Steam from hot springs rises behind the pa. Other Titles - The pa of Ohinemutu Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 161 x 244 mm

Date: 1887

From: Menzies, John Henry, 1840-1919 :Sketches by John Henry Menzies of Menzies Bay, Banks Peninsula, drawn in 1887.

Reference: E-003-020

Description: Shows a plan of the area several boiling springs and cauldrons shown, in the vicinity of the hospital, doctor's residence, Rachel Sanatorium, Blue Bath. The pa at Ohinemutu is at the far right. Extended Title - From Menzies, John Henry, 1840-1919. Sketches by John Henry Menzies ... 1887, page [20 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print, on page 142 x 232 mm.

Date: [Circa 1880s to 1890s]

By: Pulman (Firm); Valentine, James, -1880

Reference: PA1-o-329

Description: Photographs of Maori carving, in buildings, sculptures, tools and weapons. Most taken by unidentified photographers, at unidentified sites, but a few taken by Pulman Photo, and James Valentine; at Ohinemutu Pa, at Te Wairoa (section of a carved house), and Lake Rotorua. A number of scenes show thatched houses, including some with flax thatching, some with groups of Maori. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, darker brown corners and spine, gold decoration; 23.5 x 28.0 cm

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: A-020-017

Description: Landscape with Mount Edgecumbe in the distance, top left. The gateway to Ohinemutu Pa with a fence and seven carved poupou all flanking the main entrance which is a doorway with a huge carved figure above it, top right. A large boiling spring at Rotorua, bottom left. The palisades of a large pa (Kupanga), with roofs and storage platforms visible above the fenceline, and Mount Edgecumbe in the background, bottom right Angas did not visit Mount Edgecumbe, Rotorua or Ohinemutu. This group of drawings is likely to have been copied from lost originals by Joseph Jenner Merrett, from whom Angas copied a number of drawings, without acknowledgement Quantity: 4 drawing(s) (on one sheet). Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 248 x 338 mm

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

Reference: E-326-f-138-2

Description: A view of an old pa, partially under water, at Ohinemutu, with Rotorua township in the background Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 145 x 204 mm

Date: [Circa 1880s]

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA1-f-076

Description: Album of photographs taken by various photographers circa 1880s, including the Burton brothers, George Valentine, and W T L Travers. Photographs of Tenerife, Cape Town (and probably the views of Hobart) were taken from the ship "Doric" in 1885, possibly by Alexander Turnbull on one of his return trips from Europe. Other Titles - New Zealand, Tasmania [and] Ships Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled in gold lettering on spine "New Zealand, Tasmania, Ships, A H Turnbull"; 31.5 x 43.0 cm

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

Reference: A-020-017-2

Description: The gateway to Ohinemutu Pa with a fence and seven carved poupou all flanking the main entrance which is a doorway with a huge carved figure above it, the top right drawing on a sheet with four separate views on it Angas did not visit Ohinemutu. This drawing is likely to have been copied from a lost original by Joseph Jenner Merrett, from whom Angas copied a number of works, without acknowledgement Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 248 x 338 mm

Date: [1880s-1910s?]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Ferrez, Marc, 1843-1923; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA1-q-260

Description: Collection of photographs taken by various photographers including the Burton Brothers, George Valentine, Josiah Martin and Marc Ferrez. On page [67] there is a hand-traced map of the world with a route marked on it from London, to Plymouth, Canary Islands, Cape Town, Tasmania, Wellington, Lyttelton, Cape Horn, Rio de Janeiro, Canary Islands and back to Plymouth and London. The distance travelled out was 12,948 miles, and distance home was 11,915 miles. The photographs cover most of these places, with more detailed travel through Tasmania, and especially New Zealand. Scenes in New Zealand were mostly taken by the Burton Brothers and Josiah Martin. They include views of the main cities, and a large number in the thermal area around Lake Rotorua and Mount Tarawera, showing the area around the Pink and White Terraces before and after the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886. Photographs by Josiah Martin include portraits of Maori, and one entitled "The old order changeth" with Maori artifacts, shrunken heads, and a portrait of Tawhiao. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, black leather coners and spine; 27.5 x 37.5 cm

Date: 1882

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: G-629

Description: Shows Lake Rotorua with a Maori pa (Ohinemutu Pa) in the foreground, a large whare to the left. Steam vents can be seen in the middle distance The Turnbull Library Endowment Trust print (1971) of Ohinemutu (held at C-028-033) is not taken from this painting, but from G-459, which has the title 'Roto Rua from Maroi [sic] Village of Ohinimutu [sic] ... ' Inscriptions: Signed: C Blomfield. Inscribed on back of mount: Roto Rua. Ohinemutu in the distance Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 356 x 533 mm

Date: 1864

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-041

Description: Shows Ohimemutu, the area from the church to the end of the pa, steam rising from the hot areas and with many people bathing in the lake. A building to the left bears a flagpole. Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Other Titles - Rotorua, Ohinemutu Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 154 x 340 mm Provenance: Wilkie Collection

Date: 1885

From: [Doubleday, William and John], fl 1880s :[Twenty-three watercolours of New Zealand and the Pacific. 1884-1885]

Reference: C-150-022

Description: Shows a view of several houses in the pa at Ohinemutu, with wooden fencing made from slim branches. Two figures are seated on the ground in striped cloaks in the centre foreground. A tall pou stands erect in the enclosure at the right. In the background is Lake Rotorua. This watercolour was painted by either William or and John Doubleday in 1885, while they were travelling around the world - on doctor's orders to cure lung infections. Other Titles - Tako, Takou Pa; Rotorua Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 123 x 370 mm.