Children - 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: 1955

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-106-04

Description: Dame Flora McLeod, Chief of Clan McLeod, telling Scottish fairy stories to a group of children and adults during a visit to Gisborne, New Zealand. Photographed by Lloyd Cornish in 1955. This photograph was published in the New Zealand Free Lance 14 January 1955. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 21.9 x 16.5 cm

Date: 1912

From: Porteous family :Family photographs and photographs of towns and schools in the Gisborne Region

Reference: PAColl-7595-11-2

Description: A man and two girls rope skipping watched by children of Reporua School. This was part of the school's Arbour Day celebrations. Probably photographed by John Porteus in 1912. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15 x 10.8 cm

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-2054

Description: Most views show a group of children, including two pākehā boys, riding on home-made trolleys on a gravel road, probably in the East Cape, Gisborne area (frames 1 to 7). A man is under a car in a driveway, his legs seen on the right, with a caravan parked under an awning and part of a house visible on the right of the drive, tree-covered hills in the background (frame 8). Some of the children are seen playing on a narrow bridge (frames 9 to 11); and two children are wrestling on the ground (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