Youth, Māori - New Zealand - Gisborne Region

Date: 2022

By: Mackintosh, Rochelle, active 2022

Reference: OHColl-1609

Description: Five interviews conducted by Rochelle Mackintosh in 2022 to record the early personal experiences of six kaumātua growing up in and around Te Araroa on the East Coast of the North Island between the 1930s and 1950s. The interviewees were Adelaide Clarke, Maaka Tibble, Sir John Clarke, Sydney Clarke, and Tauoha Takanui and George Clarke. Many of the kaumātua are associated with the Te Whānau a Kahu and Te Whānau a Hinerupe hapū. Topics covered in the interviews include: family, upbringing, education, employment, and daily lives in the Te Araroa area. The interviewer also identified the following concepts as being "interwoven thoughout their experiences": identity, belongingness, kāinga (settlements), whenua (land), awa (river), tikanga (customs), whānaungatanga (kin relationships), manaakitanga (generosity), matauranga-a-hapū (sub-tribe knowledge), and kaitiakitanga (guardianship). Project received a Ngā Kōrero Tuku Iho, Piki Ake! Kake Ake! New Zealand Oral History Grant from Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage in 2021. Title supplied by donor. Quantity: 5 Interview(s). 33 Electronic document(s) includes digital abstracts, recording agreement forms, and biographical information forms. 9 digital sound recording(s). 5 printed abstract(s) includes recording agreement forms. 1 folder(s) biographical information forms. Search dates: 2022 Processing information: Digital recording agreement forms and biographical information forms were delivered together in a single PDF file for each interviewee. For preservation and delivery purposes they have been separated into two PDF files.

Date: 1976

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1488

Description: Celebrations for the 1976, 28th Māori Battalion, 10th National Reunion at Te Poho-o-Rāwiri. Held at Easter weekend 1976. All frames were taken outside showing close-up views of a group of young people and children sitting by a wall at the marae with carved panels behind them. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1976

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1490

Description: Celebrations for the 1976, 28th Māori Battalion, 10th National Reunion at Te Poho-o-Rāwiri. Held at Easter weekend 1976. All frames were taken outside showing close-up views of young people and children, some by a wall at the marae with carved panels behind them, others relaxing on the grass in the marae grounds. A marquee is seen in frames 6 to 8. An older woman is sitting on a bench seat in front of a corrugated iron wall, next to a young man holding a young child on his lap. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1976

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1468

Description: Celebrations for the 1976, 28th Māori Battalion, 10th National Reunion at Te Poho-o-Rāwiri. Held at Easter weekend 1976. All frames show participants & visitors at the marae. Frames 3 to 12 were taken inside the wharenui where young people are lying on mattresses all over the floor. A group of elders have mattresses on raised platforms at one end of the room. Two women are seen preparing food in frame 7. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1976

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1491

Description: Celebrations for the 1976, 28th Māori Battalion, 10th National Reunion at Te Poho-o-Rāwiri. Held at Easter weekend 1976. All frames were taken outside showing close-up views of different groups. Frames 1 to 4 show an older woman sitting on a bench seat in front of a corrugated iron wall, next to a young man with his young child beside him. Two men are seen [preparing food?] by large oil drums; a young man has climbed onto a ledge to peer in through a window in frame 9; and two young men are together in frames 10 & 11. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1976

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1489

Description: Celebrations for the 1976, 28th Māori Battalion, 10th National Reunion at Te Poho-o-Rāwiri. Held at Easter weekend 1976. All frames were taken outside showing close-up views of young people and children sitting by a wall at the marae with carved panels behind them. A marquee is visible in the background in frame 3. A group of small boys are playing together in frames 7 to 9, and a woman is sitting be three teenagers in frames 11 and 12. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1980

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2032

Description: All images taken in a kitchen, possibly on a marae in the East Cape, Gisborne area. Ans Westra focusses on an older woman sitting at a table (frames 1 to 4); and on a woman standing with a large kettle and pot on a stove, and a young man wearing a cap beside her (frames 7 to 11). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1980

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2028

Description: All frames possibly taken in the Ruatoria, Gisborne area showing young Māori sitting on a fence, riding a horse, or sitting chatting. Two children have been identified as Adrian van Hulst riding on a horse in front of a young girl (frame 4), and Lisa van Hulst on the horse in front of the same girl (frame 8). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1980

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2048

Description: All images taken at a bar in Ruatōria, Gisborne. Two women are sitting outside in the sun, one with a baby in her arms, with a bottle of beer on the table in front of them (frame 1); two young men, one wearing work overalls, are leaning on a high table with bottles of beer (frames 2 to 4); two women seated at a table (frames 5 to 7); a young man talking to a pākehā wearing a black singlet and a cap (frames 8 to 10); open louvres are seen in the background in the bar. Three older men in work clothes are sitting on a seat outside, one wearing a singlet, a cap and gumboots, smoking a cigarette, and one with a moustache wearing a checked shirt, a beanie and work boots (frame 11); two young children outside (frame 12). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1980

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2053

Description: All views taken outside houses in the East Cape, Gisborne area. A small child is riding a tricycle which lacks one handlebar, (frames 1 to 8). A wringer washing machine is standing outside a corrugated lean-to, part of a wooden flat-roofed house in the background. Two older large cars are parked in front of the house. A group of young people are gathered in a grassy area with a pitched roof house in the background (frames 9 to 12). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1970

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2058

Description: Frames 1 to 10 show a group of young people by a beach, probably in the East Cape area. Several have bicycle, and they are near a Vauxhall car which has a towel draped over the roof. A young woman is tying up her hair (frames 3 to 5); and a young girl with a tennis racquet is standing near a small boy on a street with houses in the background (frames 11 & 12). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1980

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2046

Description: All images taken in Ruatōria, Gisborne. Several young men, a young boy and a woman are seen sitting on a bench outside a building with various signs in the window. They read "Masport", and below "Christma[s] Cadbury", and on the right "Department of Labour Departmental Building Ruatoria. Officer in attendance [?...] every Thursday" (frames 1 to 6). Three men are standing in the entrance to a dairy (frame 7); a young woman is on the bench drinking from a can, sitting in front of advertisements for "Watties", and "Groceries, frozen foods, bread, milk and pies, fruit and vegetables" (frame 8)); a young woman is sitting at a table in a bar with a bottle of beer beside her (frame 9); and two women are also sitting at a table in the bar with a jug and glasses of of beer (frames 10 to 12). Open louvre windows are seen in the background. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1980

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-2047

Description: All images taken in a bar in Ruatōria, Gisborne. Two women are sitting with a jug of beer on the table beside them (frame 1). Ans Westra focusses on individuals and small groups including one young woman with short curly hair wearing jeans and a patterned sleeveless blouse (frames 2, & 5 to 9); and an older man with a beard, wearing glasses and a cap, talking to a young woman (frame 12). Open louvre windows are seen in the background. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film