Fortification - New Zealand

Date: 1994

From: Prickett, Nigel John (Dr), 1943- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9165-3

Description: Correspondence and other papers relating to the publication of Monograph No 20 for the New Zealand Archaeological Association Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [between 1856-1889]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/1-000503-G

Description: Photograph taken by William James Harding or Frank James Denton or Alfred Martin. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1864 - 1871

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943: Maps from papers

By: Cowan, James, 1870-1943

Reference: MapColl-q832hkcmf/1845-1871/Acc.5122-8;46793-813

Description: Draft sketches as follows with reference to the publication 'The New Zealand Wars': [Scenes of engagements, Bay of Islands District, 1845-46] - vol 1, p.38 (Acc.46798); [Cross-section of Ruapekapeka Pa, North Auckland, 1845-6] - vol 1, p.73 (Acc.46799); [The Maori entrenchments at] Meremere [1863, Waikato] - vol 1, p.309 (Acc.46800); Raniaowhia [scene of operations at Rangiawhia and Hairini showing positions captured by the British on the 21st and 22nd February, 1864] - vol 1, p.342 (Acc.46801); [The Maori fortifications at Te Tiki o te Ihingarangi, Waikato, 1864] - vol 1, p.400 (Acc.46802 & 46813); [The battlefields at Lake Rotoiti, Makatu and Kaokaoroa, Bay of Plenty, 1864] - vol 1, p.406 (Acc.46803); [The Monmouth Redoubt, Tauranga, 1864, sketch plan by J.C., 1920] - vol 1, p.412 (Acc.46804); [Plan of the attack on] the Gate Pa 29th April, 1864, [Bay of Plenty] - vol 1, p.414 (Acc.46805); [Plan of the attack on] Te Ranga [entrenchments, 21st June 1864, Bay of Plenty] - vol 1, p.426 (Acc.46806). Otapawa Pa, South Taranaki, 1866 [J.C., sketch plan, 1918] - vol 2, p.61 (Acc.46807); [Plan of Puraku Pa entrenchment, Tarukenga, Rotorua, 1867 from a survey by Mr H. Taiporutu, drawn by H.T. Mitchell, 1918] - vol 2, p.162 (Acc.5127); [The battlefield of Moturoa, Wairoa, Wanganui area, 1868, sketch plan by J. Cowan, 1921] - vol 2, p.237 (Acc.5124); [Sketch of the Moturoa Battlefield, 1866, J.C.,1921] - vol 2, p.242 (Acc.5128); [Rauporoa Pa, attacked by Te Kooti, 1869, Bay of Plenty, by J. Cowan, 1919] - vol 2, p.311 (Acc.5126 & 46808); [Sketch map of the Urewera Country showing routes of march of Colonel Whitmore and Lieut. Colonel St John and scenes of engagements, 1869] - vol 2, p.329 (Acc.46809); [Opepe, the scene of the surprise attack, 7th June, 1869, Bay of Plenty, from a sketch map by Mr Thomas Hallet] - vol 2, p.353 (Acc.5122); [Scene of the defeat of Te Kooti at Te Hapua, Urewera Country, 1st Sept 1871] - vol 2, p.439 (Acc.5125); Plan of Kohitau Redoubt built by Major Ropata at Maugapohatu, Urewera Country, 1871 [from pencil drawing at time by a Maori from the Ngati Porou contingent] - vol 2, P.443 (Acc.46810-2); [Scene of skirmishes at Orona and Te Wai-iti, Urewera Country, 1869] - vol 2, p.508 (Acc.5123). The following plans were not included in the book but reference has been included to discussion in the book about the pa or redoubts: Manawapou Redoubt [General Cameron's campaign, South Taranaki] - vol 1, p.142 (Acc.46793); Te Porere Pa, [Taupo area, built 1869 and last redoubt constructed by Te Kooti] - vol 2, p.369 (Acc.46794); Te Teko Pa [Bay of Plenty] - vol 2, pp.92-101 (Acc.46795); Queens Redoubt, from survey plan by G.A. Martin, Sept 1879, Maramarua District. Mangatawhiri Parish. Auckland Survey Office Plan 2024 (Acc.46796), note: on verso is a copy of similar map to Acc.5125; [Pencil sketch of unidentified skirmish] (Acc.46797).. Quantity: 27 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on linen or paper, scales indeterminable, 29 x 34 cm. or smaller Processing information: Transferred in several lots, exact dates unknown. First group of 11 items catalogued on Cartographic card index and filed in blue pamphlet case, date transferred unknown; second group arrived from Turnbull Library Pictures 2003, all presumed to have been transferred originally from Manuscripts and Archives Section, James Cowan Papers, MS-Papers-0039

Date: 1847 - 1851

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: B-193-019

Description: Seated portrait of a Maori woman wearing a blue European-style dress, and wrapped in a cream shawl. Her black wavy hair is fastened in a bun at the nape of her neck. She holds a small child within her shawl; the child is probably of mixed race, as he has fair skin and light brown hair. A number of buildings, possibly part of a stockade, are sketched in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on artist's paper, 370 x 270 mm (sight) in mat 585 x 445 mm