Taupō Pā

Date: 1844

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

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-031-1

Description: Two women seated and weaving, their work stretched on on sticks on the ground. Kete hanging from the walls of the whare and food parcels hanging down from the ceiling, along with a large bundle of dried flax. A small fire burns outside the whare. The pa is almost certainly Taupo Pa at Plimmerton, visited by the artist in September 1844 and drawn on the other side of this sheet of paper. Original sketch for a lithograph reproduced in G. F. Angas' The New Zealanders illustrated, (Plate 59) under the title Domestic economy - women making mats etc. Interior of a house at Rangihireta's Pah. Other Titles - Te Rangihaeata, Taupo Pa. Rangihireta's Pah Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 348 x 249 mm

Date: 1844

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

Reference: A-020-032-3

Description: View looking across the pa site, with several fenced dwellings and clusters of houses. On the right is a tall structure marked 'whata', a storage platform, or possibly a tapu structure. A hill behind the houses is marked 'heath'. In the sky area is a drawing of an albatross skin On same sheet sketch of: Skin of Toroa - pieces of it worn in the ears of chiefs. Extended Title - Original for lithograph In: Angas, G F, New Zealanders Illustrated, Plate XLVIII, p. 109. Taupo Pah was about a mile north of Porirua at Plimmerton and belonged to Te Rauparaha Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 336 x 338

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

Reference: A-020-031

Description: A range of small sketches relating to Rangihaeata's pa at Plimmerton Quantity: 2 drawing(s) (one on recto, one on verso). Physical Description: Pencil drawings

Date: 1843

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: B-051-004

Description: Shows and names Taupo Bay (i.e. Plimmerton) and the entrance from the sea. Thom's whaling station in the background, Maori pa at Plimmerton, man on horse and Maori burial ground, in foreground Detached from: Wakefield, E J ; Illustration to Adventure in N Z , 1845. Plate XII Other Titles - Paremata Extended Title - From: Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand" by Edward Jerningham Wakefield. (London, 1845). Plate 12. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph 237 x 370 mm

Date: 1844

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

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-032

Description: An upper drawing showing a low wharenui, seen from the front. A lower drawing showing a passageway or entrance through palisades, with buildings and hills beyond. Both drawings are probably scenes at Rangihaeata's Taupo Pa, Plimmerton The drawing on the verso of this sheet (A-020-033-1) is of Taupo Pa, Plimmerton Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 333 x 231 mm

Date: 1896

By: Warburton, Charlotte Eliot, 1883-1961

Reference: A-090-014

Description: A site close to Plimmerton beach, looking north towards a sandhill, with fencing surrounding it at its base and on the top. Inscriptions: Verso - title, date and signature in a childish hand. Note about its being used as an illustration for 'Changing days and changing ways' by Warburton. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing 177 x 253 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Warburton typscript for Changing Days and Changing Ways - 1960s?.

Date: 1889

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890

By: Allan, Joseph Stuart, 1861-1930

Reference: B-110-022-3

Description: A view from the shore at Plimmerton, looking out past Rangihaeata's Taupo Pa towards Mana Island Based on a lithograph by G. F. Angas 'Rangihaeata's Pah', plate 57 in his 'The New Zealanders illustrated' (London, 1847) One of three lithographs on the same sheet, all probably the work of J. S. Allan, whose signature appears on the first of the three. Other Titles - Porirua, Rangihaeata's pah, pa Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, on sheet 183 x 252 mm

Date: 1844 - 1845

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: MapColl-832.47964ac/[ca 1840]/Acc.6012

Description: Map of Porirua Harbour, Titahi Bay northwards to Pukerua Bay, and the Horokiwi Valley, Wellington. Shows unnumbered subdivisions of land around the Harbour, Jackson's Hotel, Thom's Hotel and whaling station. Shows several Maori pa sites, including Pa Warakoua on the southwest side of the Harbour, an unnamed pa near Titahi Bay, Taupo Pa and surrounding Native gardens, the Native path from Taupo Pa to Pukerua, Wairaka Pa near Gibralter Rock, and a settlement at Pukerua. Map probably drawn in 1844 or 1845, according to Drawing and Prints. Also shows several numbered views that relate to sketches housed in Drawings and Prints. Note on map before copying: Portfolio D, [New Zealand Company], marked & 4 by ? See 'Plan shewing the several points of view of the sketches illustrative of the West Coast' [1844 or 1845], the ink and watercolour original, shelved at B-031-036, held in Drawings and Prints. The original watercolour sketches relating to the map are held in Drawings and Prints, shelved at A145 / 8. Brees was the principal surveyor of the New Zealand Company. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 32.3 x 41.2 cm.

Date: 1844

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

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-032-2

Description: View from inside a seaside pa, looking out to sea. The landforms suggest the Ngati Toa pa "Taupo", Plimmerton, visited by the artist in 1844. In the foreground are canoes, palisades with carved figures, a grave or other small fenced enclosure to the right, fish drying racks, dwellings and further constructions up a steep hill on the right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 238 x 330 mm

Date: 20 November 1880

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department; McLeod, Norman Colin, 1921-

Reference: MapColl-832.47gme/1880/Acc.37818

Description: A topographic map includes the upper and lower sections of the railway line in the Plimmerton area, part of the North Island main trunk railway. The map covers the approximate area from the eleven to the twelve mile mark and this milage runs from Porirua Crossing side towards Paekakariki. The line passes through a swamp. Taupo Creek is named. The site of a pah is marked adjacent to the line at Plimmerton, on the seaward side. The lower diagram is of a cross section of the upper and lower lines at Plimmerton, including gradients. A note states: Line 50ft. above datum for 1 in 660 Map signed by W. Hill, 20-11-[18]80. Note on bottom right of map states: P.W.D. 8411 cancelled. P.W.D. 8117 Title assigned by cataloguer from curator's notes on verso Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, 46 x 55.5 cm.

Date: 1932

From: New Zealand Railways :[Ephemera relating to railways, railway trains, rail timetables, rail travel in New Zealand. 1930-1939]

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: Eph-A-RAIL-1932-01

Description: A pamphlet issued to passengers embarking on a mystery train journey, contains text by James Cowan, titled "Plimmerton to Pukerua; the trail of Rauparaha", and has paragraphs about Fort Paremata, the old Taupo village, the capture of Rauparaha, and the Pukerua Pa. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on pamphlet folded to 253 x 190 mm. Provenance: From the papers of Mr A G Bagnall, donated 2010.

Date: 1844 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: B-031-036

Description: Map of Porirua Harbour, Paramata, Plimmerton and Pukerua districts with Mana Island. Location of several pa sites indicated: Wairaka Pa near Pukerua Bay; Taupo Pa (built 1844) at Plimmerton, Warakoua Pa on Porirua Harbour's North shore, and a pa at Titahi Bay. Also shows location of Jackson's Hotel, Thom's hotel and whaling station, Maori gardens beyond Taupo pa and Maori path to Pukerua Bay. Subdivisions of land are indicated around Porirua Harbour. Attributed to Charles Heaphy until 1993, because sketches referred to in title were thought to be Heaphy's. Reattribution to Brees because 1. Brees was Principal surveyor for the N.Z.Company and the map shows land subdivisions. 2. Handwriting very similar to Brees' on MS map held by the Admiralty (photo held by Cartographic Collection (823 at / 1844-5 / acc 855) 3. Indications of points of view of sketches can mostly be linked with known originals by Brees. The following list gives the numbers on this map followed by titles and plate numbers of the matching illustration from Brees' Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand (London, 1847). No.21 [i.e. no. 1 or 2?] = Porirua Harbour no. 35, described as looking towards the north from near Jackson's towards Thom's. No.3. Thom's whaling station, Porerua, no.14. No.4. Porerua Harbour no. 29; also Porirua Harbour, ATL's watercolour (B-031-006), looking south towards Thom's and Paramata Pa. No.5. Paramata Pa, Porerua, no.52. No.6 Porerua Bay, no.12. Taken from the native path towards Pukerua, showing the "native potatoe gardens". No.7 Island of Mana. No.8. No parallel image traced. No.9 Pokaroa and the Island of Kapiti, no.37. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Title. Other place names and geographical features elsewhere. "Portfolio D. Marked &c by Mrs Allom" inscribed above title by the New Zealand Company Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & Watercolour 319 x 409 mm on laid paper, watermarked 1840 Provenance: New Zealand Company; purchased by A.H.Turnbull in 1915.

Date: 1848

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-034

Description: View inside Taupo Pa, at Plimmerton looking out to sea with part of Mana Island out to sea on the right and the South Island in the distance. The palisades of the pa run down to the water's edge on the left, with a raupo whare propped against the fence line. A Maori family (father, mother with a child on her back and a toddler at her side) is walking away from the viewer, and three armed Maori are seated or reclining in the centre foreground, beside a cabbage tree or dracena plant. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Ngati Toa built Taupo Pa probably in the late 1830s or 1840s. According to land court evidence by Wi Parata most of Ngati Kimihia were resident in the South Island until the Wairau Affair in 1843. Wi Parata lived at Taupo with his uncle Te Hiko-o-te-Rangi and the Ngati Te Maunu until his death in 1845, where Te Rauparaha made a speech relating to Taupo stating that it formerly belonged to Te Hiko and was later acquired by Te Rauparaha. Other Titles - Te Rangihaeata Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in ink in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 255 mm. Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-072-001

Description: The hull of a derelict boat at the shoreline, with the palisades of a pa on a headland to the left, possibly Taupo Pa, Plimmerton Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in pencil; Recto - bottom right - signature in pencil Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 98 x 146 mm (platemark) on sheet 185 x 219 mm

Date: 1900 - 1902

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketches

Reference: E-346-3-034

Description: Depicts Plimmerton Beach with Mana Island visible out to sea. Visible is the Ngati Toa urupa (burial place) with fencing and crosses similar to the urupa fencing at Rangiatea, Otaki; however the view may also be a copy of part of G. F. Angas' 1844 drawing of Rangihaeata's Pa at Plimmerton. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 163 x 224 mm

Date: 1843

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: PUBL-0011-12

Description: Shows and names Taupo Bay (i.e. Plimmerton) and the entrance from the sea with Porirua Harbour in the background. Thom's whaling station in the distance, the Maori pa at Plimmerton (Taupo Pa) constructed by Te Rauparaha's followers after the Wairau Affray, a European man on horseback and a Maori burial ground, in the foreground Accompanying text reads: This is about seventeen miles from Wellington by the Bridle-road. The encampment at the foot of the hill is the beginning of that made by Rauperha's [i. e. Te Rauparaha's] followers after the Wairau massacre. Parramatta [i. e. Paremata] is at the low point farther inside the harbour. Almost identical to Brees' engraving "Porerua Bay" engraved by Melville in "Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand" (London, 1847) Plate 5 no. 12. In the later version, the horseman in the foreground has been replaced by a European traveller on foot with a dog and a Maori man coming to meet him. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 237 x 370 mm

Date: [1930-1940]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-07

Description: Contents comprise sketch maps and historical information of French Pass district; D'Urville Island; Wairau River mouth (showing old Maori waterways); `Tutira', I, Tutira sheepstation, II, territory of Ngai-Tatara and other hapu of Ngati Kahungunu, III, fishing grounds of Ngai Tatara, IV, general map of Tutira Lake, V, eel weirs of Tutira and Maheawha streams, and VII, old Maori trails and place names near Tutira; old chart of Mana Island and Porirua Harbour; and west coast near Auckland city Arrangement: Notebook no 6 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1844 - 1847

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

By: Giles, John West, 1801-1870

Reference: PUBL-0014-48

Description: Scene depicting Taupo pa (present day Plimmerton). Shows on the rise in the right foreground a wahi tapu, or sacred place serving as a receptacle for goods and property that have become subject to the law of tapu for a certain length of time. The wahi tapu is constructed of sticks and contains household utensils, skins, calabashes and dried fish, and a garment suspended beneath flutters in the wind. In the right distance behind the wahi tapu is the bay "about a mile from Porirua". Several canoes are drawn up on the beach, and there are four palisaded enclosures containing whare on the shore. In the centre foreground is a flax bush. Angas was in New Zealand in 1844 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - top right - Plate 48 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) in publication.. Physical Description: Hand-coloured lithograph, 229 x 324 mm.

Date: 1844 - 1847

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

By: Giles, John West, 1801-1870

Reference: PUBL-0014-57

Description: Shows part of the outer palisade of the Ngati Toa pa "Taupo" on the mainland at present day Plimmerton. The island of Mana is in the centre distance. In the foreground are canoes belonging to Ngati Toa and there are flax bushes growing in the left foreground. A figure in a striped blanket sits in the left foreground. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844. The Ngati Toa pa "Taupo" was probably built and occupied before the Wairau Affair of 1843, where a number of Ngati Toa and Europeans (armed constabulary) were killed in an armed encounter. However, it was'nt until after that incident that large numbers of Ngati Toa returned from the South Island for fear of reprisal attacks from settlers to re-populate the Wellington-Porirua-Kapiti disricts in large numbers again. This pa is mainly associated with Te Hiko-o-te-Rangi, a paramount chief of Ngati Toa, and his uncle Te Rauparaha. Other Titles - Taupo Pa Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured, 230 x 336 mm.

Date: [Before 1930]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-039081-G

Description: Taupo Pa, Porirua, photographed by an unidentified photographer. This image is a glass copy negative made by Albert Percy Godber from an unidentified publication. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Taupo Pa, Porirua. Where Te Rauparaha was captured Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches