Outrigger canoes - Pacific Area

Date: April-June 1903

By: Read, G A, active 1903; Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931

Reference: PA1-o-468

Description: Record of the tour of the Pacific Islands by members of the New Zealand Legislature in 1903 Photographs taken by Henry Winkelmann of Auckland (numbers 1, 38, 50-51, and 79) and G A Read of the NZ Government Printing and Stationery Department Very few of the people shown are identified Other Titles - Visit of members of New Zealand legislature to the Cook and other Islands, 1903 Inscriptions: Album page - The voyage, of which the accompanying photographs form a partial record, was undertaken in April-June, 1903, for the purpose of giving Members of the New Zealand Legislature an opportunity of seeing the Cook and other Islands, which were annexed to the colony in June, 1901. In all fifteen islands were visited, eight of them being within the extended boundaries of New Zealand, and the remaining seven belonging to one or other of the adjacent groups - viz., Samoa, Tonga or Friendly Islands, and Fiji. The total distance travelled was 8,015 miles and th time occupied,, seven weeks. A detailed report on the visit will be found in parliamentary Paper, 1903, A.-3B. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "Visit of members of New Zealand Legislature to the Cook and other islands, 1903", lettered in gold; 15.5 x 23.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1880s, and 1920s]

By: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951; Summers, John Arthur Campbell, 1916-1993

Reference: PA1-o-484

Description: Album of photographs, postcards and newspaper cuttings relating to Samoa and Tonga, circa 1920s. Many of the photographs, and some of the newspaper cuttings have limited captions, or no identification at all. At the beginning of the album there is a signed Christmas card from George Spafford Richardson, with a photograph of him and another European standing in front of a fale with a large group of Samoan men. One image of Robert Louis Stevenson ([p 2]), is signed by him, and another one shows the tomb of Stevenson and his wife Frances Matilda (Aolele). There are a number of views of Vailima, Stevenson's home, one early view showing Stevenson on the verandah with a group of women and another man standing above looking over the balustrade. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album covered with tapa cloth, tan corners and spine; 23.5 x 33 .0 cm

Date: [ca 1920-1936]

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2628

Description: Other Titles - Canoes in Micronesia Other Titles - Canoes of Oceania Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1920 - 1930

By: Davis, George Harold, 1892-1976

Reference: A-164-045

Description: Shows a beach scen lit by a sickle moon. In the left foreground stands a man with a fishing spear. His outrigger canoe is pulled up on the beach in the centre foreground. Beyond him is a large dark rock. Date and probable artist taken from the novel "The scapegoat", by George Harold Davis (b 1892), describing the life of a Post Office employee who spent some time as postmaster on a group of Pacific Islands, after the First World War, and before the Depression. (See NZ&P 823 NZ DAV 1974). Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Signed] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on sheet 227 x 302 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Antiquarian bookseller, in 2000.

Date: 1883-1934

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2631

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1767-1957

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-3074

Description: Selected records from the Navigational Practice, Newspapers and Playbills, General records and Descriptions, Shipbuilding, Theses and Essays and Visitors' and Autograph Books records sections. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: [ca 1920-1936], 1925, 1917-1918, 1924-1925

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2629

Description: Other Titles - Canoes of Oceania Other Titles - Canoes in Micronesia Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1894-1932

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2754

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1902-1939

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2752

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1914-1929

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2626

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1987

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-362-269/287

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 19 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1913, 1918, 1924-1940

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2630

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: ca1880s-1890s

From: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922 :Maori and Polynesian photographs

By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Davis, John, -1893; Burton, Alfred Henry, 1834?-1914; A & W (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-223

Description: Compiled by S Percy Smith. Album includes 42 pages of photographs of Samoan scenery, towns, buildings, and portraits. Photographers represented include Burton Brothers, Thomas Andrew, J Davis, and A & W. As well as Samoa, this album includes photographs of men and one woman in the Solomon Islands; their ceremonial dress, weapons, and a house with an ornately woven patterned wall, and thatched roof. The last two photographs show men with weapons, wearing masks. Several photographs show images relating to Robert Louis Stevenson. One (on page 32) shows "R L Stevenson & party". Stevenson and his wife with European and Samoan men and women are seen standing at the back of a large group on the steps of the verandah at Vailima. The verandah is draped with fern leaves. The group seated in front on the stairs includes Samoan men, mostly holding axes, and a group of sailors holding musical instruments. Other scenes relating to Stevenson show his house (Vailima), and his tomb on Mount Vaea. Inscriptions: Album page - "From Mr S. Percy Smith" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cover, leather corners and spine; 37 x 28 cm

Date: 2016-2017

By: Te Au Mārie 1769 Sestercentennial Trust; Evans, Jeff, 1964-

Reference: OHColl-1368

Description: A born digital oral history project commissioned by Te Au Mārie Trust of the Bay of Islands and Te Tai Tokerau Northland to commemorate Tuia 250 ki Tai Tokerau 1769-2019. The Mapping Our Stories oral history project aimed to record the traditions of waka taua and voyaging waka that first landed on or explored the Tai Tokerau coast. Interviews conducted by Jeff Evans, and transcribed by Kate Martin and Jeff Evans. The interviewees are: Tā Hekenukumai (Hec or Sir Hector) Busby, Joe Conrad, and Stanley Conrad. Project received Award in Oral History funding from Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage in 2017. Title taken from item. Tuia Encounters 250 New Zealand organised national commemorative events held in 2019 to mark the 250th anniversary of first meeting between Māori and British during Captain James Cook’s 1769 voyage to New Zealand. Four Landfall Trusts co-ordinated regional events based around the four sites where Cook and the crew of the 'Endeavour' made landfall.Te Au Mārie 1769 Sestercentennial Charitable Trust (TAMSCT) was established to manage events in Bay of Islands and Te Tai Tokerau Northland between January 2018 and early 2020, with a focus around a flotilla visit by a replica of Cook’s 'Endeavour', waka hourua and Navy ships. The Trust commissioned the Mapping Our Stories oral history project to record tribal traditions of voyaging waka, sightings or meeting with Abel Tasman, James Cook, Jean Francois Marie de Surville, and Marion du Fresne, and the traditions of waka taua Ngātokimatawhaorua. The interviewees, Tā Hekenukumai (Hec) Busby, Joe Conrad, and Stanley Conrad, are prominent figures in the revival of waka taua and waka hourua and traditions of Māori and Polynesian navigation. Quantity: 3 Interview(s). 27 digital sound recording(s). 16 Electronic document(s) transcripts, precis, and agreement forms.. Search dates: 2016 - 2017

Date: 2007

By: International Council on Archives. Pacific Regional Branch

Reference: Eph-C-ARCHIVES-2007-01

Description: An arrangment of text, with an illustration of a Pacific outrigger canoe. Text emphasises the value of keeping good records. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print, 420 x 300 mm. Provenance: Donated in 2007.

Date: [ca 1920-1939]

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2627

Description: Other Titles - Canoes of Oceania Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0423

Description: Two pages from the second Von Haast album (PA1-f-081) containing 6 photographs of a mountaineering trip to Mount Cook and the Hochstetter and Tasman Glaciers, a newspaper engraving of Thomas Carlyle, a photograph of two men outside a mountain hut, and a photograph of a painting of a campsite at the foot of mountains. Also a mounted photograph from "The Camera in the Coral Islands" series by Burton Brothers, Dunedin. It shows a woman holding a paddle sitting on the side of a small outrigger canoe on a beach. The location is either Samoa, Tonga or Fiji. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: Sept[ember] 1 1847

From: Artist unknown: [Sketchbook of original watercolours painted in Tahiti]

Reference: E-113-f-32

Description: Natives in a canoe in the valley river, others populating the scene on land. The two European men sit talkng on the ground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, pencil and ink on page of sketchbook, 127 x 275 mm

Date: 1870 - 1875

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington family

Reference: A-446-041-1

Description: Shows an early view of Honolulu Harbour. There are a number of single-storey buildings near the water's edge, with steep mountains rising in the background. In the foreground, a single figure steers an outrigger canoe seaward. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Entrance to Honolulu Harbour, Island of Oahu, from memory [faint pencil marking] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 127 x 180 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: Sep[tember] 2 1847

From: Artist unknown: [Sketchbook of original watercolours painted in Tahiti]

Reference: E-113-f-22

Description: A view of the village of Papara. Dwellings, includong with fences, canoes, and a waterfall are visible. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, pencil and ink on page of sketchbook, 127 x 275 mm