Te Whai-a-te-Motu (Ruatāhuna, N.Z.)

Date: [Circa 1890s?]

From: Starke, June, 1923-2006: Photographs

By: Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963

Reference: PA1-o-477

Description: Seven pages of photographs of New Zealand; pages 8-44 are empty Identification of places is in pencil beneath the images, and include "Mr Neal's whare", and one entitled "A Maori village, N.Z." signed Denton. There are two views of Frasertown, one of a Frasertown celebration with a group of five men in a bar, and one of the Frasertown Show. One image shows ancient Maori carved figures in the bush; and two others show a small house in summer and in winter surrounded by snow Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 24.5 x 32.0 cm

Date: [Between 1933 and 1958]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

Reference: PA1-q-203

Description: Photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1933 and 1958. There are various sequences as follows: Museum trip to Lake Waikaremoana, December 1946; Holiday trip in 1937 which included Mohaka, Lake Waikaremoana and Urewera Country; Cass-Torlesse biological trip, February 1936; South Island trip, March 1939; and a Southern Lakes and Hollyford Valley trip in January 1940. The holiday trip in 1937 includes photographs of the Mohaka Viaduct under construction. At the beginning of the album a photograph shows Lake Waikaremoana after 21 years of deterioration due to state Electricity Department actions. This image was taken in January 1958, from approximately the same spot as one taken in February 1937. The Cass-Torlesse biological trip includes an image of "vegetable sheep" (page 48). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: [1891-1920s]

From: Cowan family: Collection

By: Clark, Charles Troughton, 1890-1973; Daroux, James Henry, 1870-1943; Neale, William Augustus, 1852?-1930; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-10460-05

Description: Material that was originally found in between pages of a sketchbook of watercolours by Thomas Ryan. Predominantly photographs by various, mainly unidentified photographers, collected circa 1891-1920s. Some prints have annotations on the reverse by Cowan and others. Some prints are of artworks, including one of a painting by Thomas Ryan. Some annotations have Cowan's name and address, some appear to give instructions for inclusion in publications, some identify the subjects. Contains images of Maori Chiefs, including one of Mahi Poki Orakei, and one of Wahanui Huatare and his wife, in some images facial moko have been drawn on the print. Also other images, including depiction of a ridge pole of Te Whaia te Motu meeting house, Ruatahuna, and of King Koroki's carved house at Ngaruawahia. One image of a Maori woman in front of a house is annotated in Cowan's hand "Taken at Maketu 1900", and in another hand "Maori matron and her home. Amy K. Wilkinson, Kapiti Island". One image is of Mr Rowley Hill wearing uniform and medals. One image is of a woman with baby wrapped onto her back, likely to be Rihi Te Heuheu, daughter of the ariki, Tureiti Te Heuheu Tukino V.; annotation reads "A daughter of the Heuheus" [family]. One image of Mount Edgecumbe. Some other loose material including a map of the area around Lake Rotorua from the Hautere Forest down to Lake Okaro with place names pasted on, and a newspaper clipping with a picture of a Russian doorway "carved in pine-wood". Quantity: 40 b&w copy photographic print(s). 1 map(s). Transfers: This material was previously between the pages of the sketchbook at E-965-f.. Processing information: Photographs that were within the pages of the sketchbook at E-965-f. The pages they were between has been noted on the photographic enclosures. Description updated 26 September 2023 following information from staff member.

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection

Reference: PAColl-9928-26

Description: Unbound pages from two photograph albums, with images relating to the Presbyterian mission in the Whakatane District, taken circa 1920s by unidentified photographers. The images show a wide variety of identified scenes, groups, buildings and events including: - opening day of the school at Matahi. - rallys of Maori mission workers in 1921, 1923, 1924. - local Maori people. - mission hospital at Nuhaka. - portrait of Rua Kenana and Rev John George Laughton. - mission house at Matahi. Accompanying information - Five photocopied pages, provided by Binney, with the note "From Rev Fletcher's collection. Now at Whakatane Museum (1986) (Duplicated in Fowler) " Relationship complexity - Some images duplicated at PAColl-9928-27. An album with the same images, from the collection of Rev Henry James Fletcher, is held at the Whakatane Museum. Some of the images from this collection, and information regarding them, may be found in an article in Te Ao Hou, Number 73, July 1973, pages 27 to 34, titled 'Memories of Waiohau' by E E Little. A copy is filed in the Binney backfile in the Photographic Archive. Arrangement: Ordered according to the numbers written on the back of the pages. Quantity: 59 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1903-ca 1950

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8066-07

Description: New Zealand scenic postcards, most of which depict Rotorua and Whakarewarewa. There are snapshots of unidentified rural views, some of which relate to the Kaingaroa Forest. The group of images of Maori meeting houses include "Te Whai-A-Te Motu" built for Te Kooti at Mataatua, Ruatahuna, and the house at the Te Umuroa Marae, also in the Ruatahuna area. Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s). 29 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 10 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: Between 1900 and 1920

From: Brown, Thomas Watson, 1878-1947 :Photograph albums relating to New Zealanders in the South African War and of New Zealand scenes

By: New Zealand. Tourism Department; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PA1-o-075

Description: Album belonging to T W (Thomas Watson) Brown. Scenes around New Zealand, many probably taken by Brown, some taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, and some of Lake Te Anau, Lake Wakatipu, and Milford Sound taken by FGR (Frederick George Radcliffe). The first part of the album is mainly images of tramping, camping and hunting in the Orongorongo Range and the Rimutakas, with some of the people identified, including Roley Neale and W A Neale (William Augustus Neale). Other sequences of images are a number in and around Lake Waikaremoana, including several of men fishing showing their catches; climbing in the Tongariro National Park area; views of the small towns Mohaka, Mataatua; areas around Titirangi, Kawau, Hamilton and Tauranga. Inscriptions: Album page - top left - TW Brown Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red covered album, lettered in white ink "Photographs. T.W. Brown", 240 x 305 mm

Date: ca 1920s

From: Henry, Annie (Sister) : Photographs owned by Sister Annie Henry

Reference: 1/2-030922-F

Description: Unidentified group on the step of Te Whai-a-te-Motu meeting house at Mataatua, seated in front of carved wooden poupou. Photograph taken circa 1920s. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [1940-1980]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-032

Description: Letter from Denis Rogers, Hamilton, with photographs of carved piece up for auction in Hastings (1974); list of Maori artifacts in the 1820 collection of the Miklukho-Maklay Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in Leningrad, possibly by David Simmons; paper by H D Skinner, `The Water symbol in Maori art'; `Te Whai-te-Mutu'; and publicity folder for `Te Maori' exhibition Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Henry, Annie (Sister) : Photographs owned by Sister Annie Henry

Reference: 1/2-030921-F

Description: Te-Whai-a-Te-Motu meeting house at Mataatua, and group alongside. Sister Annie Henry stands in the centre, wearing a feather cloak. Photograph taken circa 1920s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1910

Reference: 1/2-030923-F

Description: Roof carvings depicting Paenoa and Whitiawa, inside Te Whai-a-te Motu meeting house at Mataatua. Taken by an unidentified photographer, (circa 1910?). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1910

From: Blue album

By: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935

Reference: PA1-o-042-19-1

Description: Unidentified ceremony outside the Te Whai-a-te-Motu meeting house at the Mataatua, circa 1910. In the foreground, seated alongside the carved figure on the meeting house porch pole, are Tutakangahau (left), and Hekerangi. Most are dressed in a mixture of European and Maori clothing. Two men leading the ceremony are wearing kahu huruhuru (feather cloaks). Photograph taken by Thomas Pringle. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Te Awh[i?] Taupara Mataatua Hemi Atama Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: SIlver gelatin print 11.1 x 15.8 cm

Date: [ca 1903]

By: New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PAColl-8449

Description: Photograph of four Maori men, and a child, grouped in front of carvings on the porch of Te Whai-a-te-Motu (`the pursuit through the island'), the wharenui (meeting house) built by Ngai Tuhoe people at Ruatahuna, near Mataatua. Photograph taken circa 1903 by an unidentified photographer for the New Zealand Government Tourist Department. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - New Zealand Government Tourist Department / Protected / No 1160 7.1.03; Verso - top centre - New Zealand Government Tourist Dept.'s Photo. / Carvings in Porch, Ruatahuna / New Zealand; Verso - centre - With the compliments of the / New Zealand Government of Tourist and Health Resorts Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.6 x 20.3 cm

Date: ca 7 January 1903

From: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-0477-02

Description: Ao Atama, known as 'Kutu', (left foreground, holding a toki pou tangata (ceremonial Maori adze)), Hekerangi (right foreground, holding a patu), and others outside Te Whai-a-te Motu meeting house at Mataatua Marae in Ruatahuna. They are seated next to a carved figure on the meeting house porch pole. Both men wear kahu huruhuru (Maori feather cloaks). Photograph taken for the New Zealand Government Tourist Department circa 7 January 1903. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - New Zealand Government Tourist Department. Protected. No 1191. 7.1.03. [These words are set around a coat of arms] Physical Description: Original photographic print

Date: ca 1932

From: Henry, Annie (Sister) : Photographs owned by Sister Annie Henry

Reference: 1/2-030892-F

Description: Caption on back of file print reads: "Opening day, restoration of Mataatua meeting house. Tables laid for luncheon. Hakari." Shows a group standing outside Te Whai-a-te-Motu meeting house at Mataatua Pa. Photograph taken circa 1932. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1910s]

From: Blue album

Reference: PA1-o-042-14-1

Description: Maori women weaving inside Te Whai-a-te-Motu meeting house at Mataatua. The woman in the cap is the wife of Te Whenuanui II. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1910. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 1253; Album page - beneath image - "At Mataatua" Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1920s

From: Henry, Annie (Sister) : Photographs owned by Sister Annie Henry

Reference: 1/2-030890-F

Description: Group outside Te Whaia te Motu meeting house at Mataatua Marae, Ruatahuna. Photographed circa 1920s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [1930s]

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

Reference: 1/2-019689-G

Description: Shows the meeting house, Te Whai-o-te-Motu under construction, or extensive renovation. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. Dated from a newspaper report and other photographs taken by Godber in this area from the 1930s. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19330805.2.176.4. Te Whai--o-te Motu was completed in 1890, but extensively renovated and reopened in 1933. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/2-019688-G

Description: Maori wooden carved statues wearing kahu huruhuru (Maori feather cloaks) and piupiu (traditional Maori skirts), at Te Whai-a-te-Motu meeting house, Mataatua. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, circa 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1905]

From: Brooke-Taylor, Arthur Howard, 1900-1975:Photographs of Mataatua, Gisborne and Atiamuri

By: Neale, William Augustus, 1852?-1930

Reference: PAColl-1767-2

Description: Group on the step of Te Whai-a-te-Motu meeting house at Mataatua. From left to right: Hurae Puketapu, Te Kopa and her husband Te Huatahi. Shows them standing in front of carved wooden poupou. They each wear cloaks, and feathers in their hair. Puketapu holds a taiaha (spear). Te Kopa holds a toki (adze). Te Huatahi is wielding a patu (club). Photograph taken circa 1905 by W A Neale. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10.6 x 14.1 cm

Date: [March 1904]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-q-634-20-1

Description: Te Whai-a-te-motu, the Runanga house at Mataatua Marae, Ruatahuna, photographed in March 1904 by Malcolm Ross. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - The Runanga house at Ruatahuna Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned silver gelatin print 90 x 118 mm mounted on album page 255 x 287 mm