Sea turtles

Date: [1960]

From: Burland, John Colles, 1926- :Colour transparencies of Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia and Palmerston Island, 1960

By: Burland, John Colles, 1926-2015

Reference: PA12-0518

Description: Views on Palmerston Atoll, Cook Islands, including the weavibng of pandanus mats, processing arrowroot, cooking, hunting green turtles, and fishing for parrotfish, taken in 1960 by John Burland. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1908

By: Oliver, Walter Reginald Brook, 1883-1957

Reference: PA1-q-135

Description: In 1908 Dr. W R B Oliver led a group including S R Oliver, W L Wallace, and T Iredale on a 10 months expedition to Sunday Island (now known as Raoul Island) in the Kermadecs. (Information from the Enclopaedia of New Zealand, Vol 2, edited by A H McLintock, 1966, page 710.) (Most/all?) of the photographs in this album were taken by Oliver, and some of the original negatives are held at the National Museum of New Zealand (Te Papa). The album includes scenes of daily life, including building thatched huts and storehouse, boat repair, preserving mutton-birds. Landscapes of different parts of Raoul Island, Denham Bay, Coral Bay, Macauley Island, Curtis island and Esperance Rock Photographs of fauna include many different types of birds, their eggs, their chicks, and as adults; also two photographs of sea turtles (one shown with King Bell, a son of Thomas Bell who lived on Raoul Island). Close-up views of plants show the type of flora found on the islands. Several photographs show members of the Bell family who farmed on Raoul Island from 1878 to 1914 Accompanying information - `Notes to help identification' by Wynne Spring-Rice, who went on an archeological expedition in 1990. The notes identify the various sites photographed by Oliver in the 1908 expedition Other - Some of the images in this album have corresponding original negatives held in Te Papa. Pencilled numbers by each of the photographs relate to these negatives. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Relationship complexity - See MS-1725-1726 : Notes from literature relating to the Kermadec Islands (donated at the same time as this album) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark maroon cover, entitled `Kermadec Islands Expedition 1908', lettered in gold on front cover and spine; 30 x 20 cm Provenance: Donated by Mrs W R B Oliver, Wellington, 1960

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2607

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1980

From: Crane, Wendy Vivienne, 1936-: Photographs of New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, and India

Reference: PA12-1848

Description: Fish, garden flowers and trees found in Fiji. The fish photographs have been taken in an aquarium Quantity: 15 colour original transparency/ies.

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2793

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1960

From: Burland, John Colles, 1926- :Colour transparencies of Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia and Palmerston Island, 1960

Reference: PA12-0518-13

Description: Bob Marsters removing the head of a male green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) with an axe in readiness for butchering. The turtle was caught in the Palmerston Atoll lagoon. Photograph taken on Palmerston Island in 1960 by John Colles Burland. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: 35mm colour slide

Date: 2014

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0030348

Description: Shows a turtle telling fish on the Great Barrier Reef about what Barack Obama wants for them. The fish replies "Such arrogance! We need to vanish to encourage him to clean up his own back yard..." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).