Te Poho o Kahungunu (Pōrangahau, N.Z.)

Date: 1931-1934

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

By: Law, Dora Isabel, 1894-1982

Reference: PA1-f-009

Description: The Maori place names and old historical sites of Horowhenua together with a pictorial record of Maori artifacts and customs. Also place names etc elsewhere in New Zealand (Vol 1, figures 147-334). Includes maps and diagrams. Images show eel weirs and traps in the Hokio Stream; stake-fields in Lake Horowhenua which were constructed by Maori to impede enemy canoes, and which were exposed above water level by the lowering of the lake in 1926; artifacts in various collections, including kumete, waka-huia, stone adzes etc.; views of the Takihiku meeting house belonging to the former pa called Pua-o-Tau (figs 198-202); porch of Poutu meeting house at Whakawehi kainga near Shannon (fig 204); site of Pakakutu Pa, Otaki; site of the Wairarawa Maori burial area where artifacts were found by Arthur Black in Feb 1932 (figs 210, 213, 223-224); carved meeting house Te Poho-o-Kahungunu at Porangahau (fig 233); funeral ceremonies on 17 April 1932, after the death of Hema Te Ao, at Raukawa meeting house (undergoing reconstruction at the time) and Rangiatea Church, service taken by Rev. Temuera Tokoaitua, funeral procession through Otaki, preparations for hangi; Titahi Bay; site of the former Korohiwa Pa; copy of a picture of Wellington Harbour by T Allom, showing place names and former Maroi sites; sites and place names along the Paekakariki-Pukerua Bay coast; sites & features at Titahi Bay, Whitireia Peninsula & Porirua Harbour.

Date: Circa 1935 to 1950

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-f-005

Description: Maori place names and old historical sites of Horowhenua (Vol 3), images 335-535. Includes hand-drawn maps of the Horowhenua region including some which show location of archaeological artifacts found by various Horowhenua residents including J W Proctor, Mr & Mrs C W Dimock of Manakau, and D I and R J Law; drawings of Maori implements and weapons; and black and white photographs, some taken from paintings. First section shows Otukou Pa, near Lake Rotoaira, of the Turamakina hapu of Tuwharetoa iwi; diagrammatical drawings of relics from the various collections; copy of a painting of Te Rangihaeata and photograph of his headstone (gravestone on Paeroa Hill near Poroutawhao, on the Levin-Foxton Highway); notes and images relating to Godfrey Ramsbotham (image 354, p 8), including photographs of 2 paintings by Lindauer, of Ngarere (Maori chieftainess of Maungatautari), and Te Nakau (Maori chief); copy of the first known map of Whanganui, Manawatu rivers etc by James Wyld (1843) showing Maori-made channel for canoes, cut across the Tuwhakatupua loops of the Manawatu River to shorten the journey. Celebrations around the opening of the newly re-erected Raukawa meeting house at Otaki (11 Jan 1936), assisted by Bishop Herbert Williams; shows the meeting house, women weaving flax baskets for food, dried eels on racks (pataka-tuna), and preparation of the hangi for the celebration banquet. Views of the Kikopiri meeting house and members of the Roera family; carved poutokomanawa of the Tukorehe meeting house at Kuku, near Ohau; centenary of Rangiatea Maori Church with celebrations (18 March 1950); visit to the Bay of Plenty (8-13 December 1950).