Mere

Date: 1953-1954

From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums and loose photographs

Reference: PA1-f-337

Description: Album containing photographs of Māori receptions for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on the royal tour of New Zealand in 1953-1954, taken by unknown photographers. Includes receptions in Waitangi, Ngaruawahia, and Rotorua, and contains many photographs of various iwi performing action songs and haka, as well as powhiri and wero. Most photographs have captions. Also includes photographic copies of the address from "the Māori Race" to the Queen read by the Minister of Māori Affairs at Rotorua, and the Queen's reply, and a photograph of the gifts given to the royal couple by Māori. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 94 black and white prints. Physical Description: Leather-bound album, 32.5 x 45 cm, with titles stamped in gold on the spine and front cover. Processing information: Not all names associated with this item are indexed. Item re-numbered from PA1-q-1279 to PA1-f-337 in February 2019 so that it could be boxed.

Date: 1996

From: Carlin, Jocelyn, 1955-2017: Photographs

Reference: PA12-5191

Description: Photographs taken by Jocelyn Carlin of Te Roopū Manutaki at Hoani Waititi Marae, 1996. Shows views of men practising taiaha inside the wharenui of the marae. Women are seen holding mere pounamu and wearing piupiu with poi tucked in at their sides. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Delivered to the Library in a file box labelled "Te Roopu Manutake" and numbered "64". Transparencies arrived loose in box. Quantity: 6 colour original transparency/ies 35mm strip containing six frames. 1 colour original transparency/ies 35mm strip containing one frame. Transfers: Separated from MS-Papers-12908-01; PAColl-10858-001; 35mm-123324 to 35mm-123403; PA12-5192; PA12-5193; PA12-5205. Processing information: Removed from original box and housed in archival enclosure. Box not retained. Transparencies separated from prints and negatives for preservation and storage purposes.

Date: 1769 - 1991 - 1770

From: Various artists: [New Zealand seen by the French; postcards]. Wellington, National Library of New Zealand, 1991.

By: Pottier de l'Horme, Jean, 1738?-

Reference: E-279-q-152-1

Description: Reproduction of a watercolour attributed to Jean Pottier de l'Horme from the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale, France. Painting of Ranginui, a New Zealander from Doubtless Bay, ca 1769-1770. Shown holding a mere in his right hand. His face, hip and thigh are tattooed as well as his calves. Produced in conjunction with the exhibition "New Zealand seen by the French, 1769-1846", National Library Gallery, 21 September-30 November 1991. Identical image reproduced on postcard at E-279-q-155 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 1 colour photolithograph, on card 105 x 150 mm

Date: [1930-1963]

By: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964

Reference: MS-Papers-6061

Description: Comprises 63 notebooks of Adkin's ethnological notes on Maori place-names, maps, diagrams and drawings of artefacts and archaeological sites throughout New Zealand although concentrating on the Horowhenua, Wellington and Wairarapa regions. The early notebooks contain material for his book, `Horowhenua', the later for `The Great harbour of Tara' (1959). The notebooks also contain his preliminary or completed drafts which he recopied for all his various papers published in the `Journal of the Polynesian Society'. One volume is of genealogies, and there are also two index volumes to the series, `Index to recording books of Maori lore, place-names, artefacts, etc' for vols 1-50 and 51-63. Most of the volumes have inserted material and loose notes and papers. Adkin included on his maps the viewpoints for slides taken during expeditions, tours and excavations A great deal of the Maori content in these volumes is focused on, but not restricted to, the tribes of the greater Kapiti-Horowhenua-Rangitikei districts. This includes the Ngati Ira and Ngai Tara; Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa; Muaupoko and Rangitane; and the Waitaha peoples who Adkin believed occupied these districts prior to the tribes listed above. There is a great deal of documentation about archaeological material found within (and outside) these districts with supporting maps, sketches and notes which often disclose information about where Maori artefacts and human remains where found, their particular characteristics, who found them etc. These papers also include the use of whakapapa. Accompanying material - Letter from donor describing background to collection; bibliography compiled by donor, and `A Bibliography of Wellington geology' by J G Begg, C Mazengarb and R G Zucchetto (1994) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Please check catalogue for further Adkin collections, and inventory Relationship complexity - See also other GL Adkin collections MS-Papers-0261 (194 folders), and Micro-MS-0600 (12 microfilm reels). Arrangement: The notebooks are numbered according to Adkin's method. All archaeological finds have precise accompanying drawings which have not been noted in scope and contents although all maps have been. Donor, Ian Keyes, has added annotations relating to publication of some reports. Quantity: 65 folder(s) (64 vols in folders; 2 vols in case folder). 0.70 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs with illustrations Provenance: Following Adkin's death in 1964 much of his papers went to the National Museum of New Zealand and the Alexander Turnbull Library. Mrs Adkin had retained Adkin's geological and ethnological notebooks and at a later date the former went to the New Zealand Geological Survey (now IGNIS) and the ethnological notebooks to Ian Keyes. The colour slides are believed to be in the possession of Dr T Barrow, Hawaii. The notebooks are extensively illustrated with professional and detailed maps, diagrams, drawings of Maori artefacts and related material

Date: [1940-1986]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-132

Description: Corrected typescript of George Graham's `Ngatoro-I-Rangi; his ascent of Tongariro and the neighbouring mountains' translated from the manuscript account of Wiremu Te Rangikeheke'; note from Grant Corbishley with his account, `The History of the Matamau and Tataramoa district prior to European settlement' (1986) with note from S Locke (1877); copy of letter, J H Mitchell to Native Minister with history of Te Rama-Apakura jade (1939); part of letter from Ngata, Ruatoria to C R H Taylor (1948); and letter from A J Park & Son to the president of the Polynesian Society re copyright in the society's publications (1976) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph typed manuscript

Date: 1955-1971

From: Martin, Pearl Ivy, 1935-2001: Papers relating to Inia Te Wiata and other singers

Reference: MS-Papers-12047-1

Description: Comprises 16 letters from Inia Te Wiata to Pearl Martin, dated 1955-1964, answering her queries, organising meetings at concerts, and making observations on his career and other matters; one Christmas card from Beryl and Inia Te Wiata, dated December 1960, which includes a printed drawing of the Coliseum Theatre with 'The Most Happy Fella' sign outside; two letters from the BBC, one dated 1955, informing Pearl Martin that her letter had been forwarded to Inia Te Wiata; one letter dated 1971, relating to a tribute programme for Inia Te Wiata after his death; a letter from Beryl Te Wiata to Pearl Martin relating to the birth of their daughter Rima in 1963; and a draft letter from Pearl Martin to Beryl Te Wiata, dated 1971, offering her condolences after Inia Te Wiata's death. The letter dated 23 March 1963 contains a photograph of Inia Te Wiata, inscribed with "Kia ora Inia Te Wiata". He is dressed in a kahu kiwi cloak, wears pounamu ear pendants, feathers in his hair, and is holding a pounamu mere. The photograph is a still from the 1954 film 'The Seekers'. Also includes some ephemera items including theatre tickets, a Nixa newsletter relating to records released in 1955, and a newspaper clipping. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Twenty letters, twenty envelopes, one card, two tickets, one newsletter, one newspaper clipping and one black & white photograph.

Date: [1910-1938]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-39

Description: Newspaper clippings, correspondence and research papers relating to oil exploration in Taranaki and an article Cowan wrote for Enzed Junior `Told on Waimate Pa: A Taranaki rock of history' published November 26, 1938. Handwritten letter to Cowan from Katherine Mercer dated December 8, 1938 in response to the article `Told on Waimate Pa'. Handwritten notes on `Maori Songs' which is titled `A Lament' and also refers to the song as a waiata aroha composed and sung by Mere Rore of the Ngati Rarua Tribe, of Wairau (Marlborough) for her mother Ramari Harepeka Porea Herewini. Includes lyrics in Maori and translation. Also written in pencil on back of memo paper from the United Service Hotel in Christchurch are notes relating to Maori vocabulary about paddling waka. Also a typewritten waka paddling chant. Copy of article written by Cowan in Brett's Christmas Annual December 1, 1924 `The magic of Te-Tahi-o-te-Rangi' a tohunga who was marooned on White Island. Newspaper clippings relating to Lake Rotoiti and Lake Rotorua and North Cape, Te Reinga. Also includes a black & white silver gelatin print, mounted on cardboard of a Maori man and woman. The man is presumed to be Kipa Hemi Whiro, but the woman is unknown. The man is holding a pounamu mere and is dressed in a European suit with a korowai over the top. The unidentified woman is wearing a pounamu tiki and piupiu worn diagonally over the shoulder, over a black dress of the style in fashion in the 1890s. Was in an envelope labelled `Cook Strait' photos 1. Kipa Hemi Whiro (Pelorus) 2. `Endeavour' at The Brothers. This folder also contains an image of the ship HMS Endeavour. Language - Some content in Maori including waiata Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts section, selected drawings transferred to DPP. - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Transfer of two drawings by Marmaduke Matthews. The kauri - monarch of the forest, NZ, A-452-021. Also another drawing of a ship and waka in a bay, A-452-022..

Date: [ca 1863-1864], [ca 1880s-1920s], [ca 1939-1949], [ca 1986-1990]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: PAColl-6056-06

Description: Collection of photographic prints and postcards primarily showing Māori people from circa 1863 to 1929. Also a small number of prints from circa 1939 to 1949, and circa 1986 to 1990. Incudes one cigarette card and three photographs of Jock McEwen, one shows him signing his book 'Rangitane'. Some subjects are named. Title supplied by Library. A full length portrait of Hoani Te Whatahoro Jury is available at Library reference 1/2-024827-F. Another portrait of Numia Keruru is available at PAColl-7273-07. Quantity: 14 b&w copy photographic print(s). 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 3 colour copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1922

From: Cowan family: Collection

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962

Reference: A-472-033

Description: Ink pen drawing depicting a Māori warrior with moko and a mere hanging from right arm wearing a huia feather encountering a taniwha emerging from a cave. Signed "A. H. Messenger '22" in lower left margin. This drawing was reproduced as an illustration with the caption and imprint: "The Snaring of Kataore at Tikitapu. Pitaka challenging the dragon. Drawing by A. H. Messenger", in 'Enzed Junior, 3 September 1938., page 418. See also Figure 6 and commentary on James Cowan's illustrations in: Kathryn Parsons, "A Famous Writer Comes to Our Pages: James Cowan's Children's Writing for the 'Enzed Junior'". 'Journal of New Zealand Studies', NS19, 2015: 98-110. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - A. H. Messenger '22; Verso - centre - Please return to J Cowan | for block in story for "Enzed Junior" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Black ink on paper, 210 x 315 mm.

Date: 1905

By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909; Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942; Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Weekly press (Newspaper)

Reference: C-067-001-a

Description: Portrait of Maori chief Te Heuheu V, holding a mere. He is seated in front of an elaborately carved doorway. The oil painting on which this print is based is in the collection of Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, Wellington Extended Title - Supplement to: New Zealand illustrated, the Christmas number of the Weekly Press, 1905. The following year, the 'Weekly press' Christmas supplement portrait was of Te Heuheu Tukino V's wife, Te Rerehau Kahotea (now at C-067-002). According to a descendant, Priscilla Rolleston, the marae shown is at Waihi. The carved doorway is now in Canterbury Museum. (Pers. comm. 8 September 1994) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 507 x 369 mm on sheet 622 x 435 mm

Date: 1769 - 1991 - 1816 - 1770

From: Various artists: [New Zealand seen by the French; postcards]. Wellington, National Library of New Zealand, 1991.

By: Piron, Jean, active 1791-1794

Reference: E-279-q-155

Description: Reproduction of a watercolour by an unknown artist, after Piron from the collection of the Hocken Library, Dunedin. Painting of Ranginui, a New Zealander from Doubtless Bay, ca 1769-1770. Shown holding a mere in his right hand. His face, hip and thigh are tattooed as well as his calves. Produced in conjunction with the exhibition "New Zealand seen by the French, 1769-1846", National Library Gallery, 21 September-30 November 1991. Identical image reproduced on postcard at E-279-q-152-1 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 1 colour photolithograph, on card 105 x 150 mm

Date: [ca 1890]

From: McLeavey, Peter Joseph, 1936-2015: Photographs of New Zealand scenes and portraits of Peter McLeavey

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: PAColl-D-1917

Description: Photograph of a museum display of Māori weapons made of stone and carved wood, taken by Josiah Martin circa 1890. The pieces are shown with labels. The photograph shows three stone weapons on the left side. Two are identified on their labels as "Stone Mere - Onewa" (the third weapon's label is not visible). To the right are three carved wooden weapons. One is identified on its label as "Wooden Club - Patuki" and the other two as "Wooden Mere - Mere Rakau". There is a display label with a paragraph of text, which is partially legible. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white photographic print within white cardboard matte

From: Brodie family: [Sketchbooks, albums, and ephemera relating to the family of Captain Francis Brodie (1837-1916)]

Reference: E-112-q-1-18

Description: Four Māori people sit in front of an unidentified wharepuni. Two of them hold greenstone mere, one of them is smoking a pipe. The meeting house has a tekoteko (carved figure on the gable) and amo (carvings to the left and right sides of the front of the meeting house). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on page, 100 x 172 mm.

Date: [ca 1900s-1920s]

From: Hamilton, Pearl Eleanor Douglas, 1883-1959: Autograph and sketchbook with papers and photographs

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: PAColl-10529

Description: Photographs and postcards, undated, originally laid in autograph and sketchbook, photographers and most subjects not identified. Comprises: - Postcard with photographic portrait of Horatio Gordon Robley depicted with Māori ethnographic objects, including Toi Moko, Hei tiki and mere. - Postcard with design by Robley, featuring a "Wishing you a merry New Year" message using Māori design features in pictograph style - the rebuses used include tattooing tools to form the "W" of "Wishing", a moko kauae to form the "Y" of "You", a fortified pa fenceline along with a tiki to form the word "particularly", and a mere in place of the word "Merry". - Two photographs of a plaster bust of Augustus Hamilton by Nelson Illingworth (1862-1926), 1908, showing both frontal and profile view. (The bust is held in the collections of Te Papa National Museum of New Zealand, registration number ME016792). - Photographs of flower arrangements in ornate porcelain vases. - Photographic portrait of female subject and a corresponding photograph of a sketched portrait - possibly of Pearl Hamilton. - Photographic portrait of a unidentified female Māori subject. Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s) 13 prints and 2 postcards. Physical Description: Black and white photographic prints and postcards. Processing information: Photographs and postcards originally laid in autograph and sketchbook (MSX-9528).

Date: [ca 1847-1851]

From: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889: Sketches of New Zealand, European, and British landscapes and portraits

Reference: B-178-006

Description: Watercolour group portrait comprising four subjects, a female wrapped in a blue blanket, a female wearing a red blanket, a male subject holding a pounamu mere and one other subject, with whare in background. Similarity of subject matter in ATL C-054-014 and C-054-020 suggests the subject is Te Rangihaeata and members of his family. Other titles (file print) - [Te Rangihaeata and family, 1850] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 277 x 380 mm.

Date: [1908-1920s?]

By: Gundry, Sheridan, 1954-; Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers)

Reference: PAColl-10693

Description: Photographic postcards of Māori published by Tanner Brothers Ltd circa 1908-1920s, comprising portraits of Ngakurapana [Ngakuru Pana] of Ngāpuhi; Wairehu [Te Huri?], of Ngāti Tūwharetoa seated in front of the whare "Okahukura"; and an unnamed rangatira from Te Arawa. The men are wearing kahu kiwi, korowai, and a kaitaka cloak with tāniko border, and two of them are holding mere pounamu. The postcards are a part of the Maoriland Photographic Series. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s) Postcards. Provenance: The postcards were collected by the donor's parents.

From: Cowan family: Collection

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: A-472-045

Description: Ink and wash on paper with printed postcard back. Design incorporates Māori objects (including greenstone mere and tiki), a 'pā', and parts of words to create message "Wishing you a particularly merry". Attribution based on similar items in collection with attribution inscribed by Cowan to Robley. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on paper with printed postcard back, 138 x 87 mm. Transfers: From MS-Papers-11946-194.

Date: 1790 - 1767

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-111-005-1-b

Description: Side and front views of carved clubs and stabbing weapons including patu, mere and other weapons as well as a hei tiki Derived from engraving In: Hawkesworth's Voyages, 1773, v. 3 pl 16 op p. 463, from drawings possibly by Sydney Parkinson of objects taken back to England on Cook's first voyage. Compare with R B Godfrey's engraving In: Parkinson's journal, 1773, pl xviii, op. p. 93, from another (?) Parkinson drawing. Other Titles - patu Extended Title - From: Banks, T. New royal authorised and complete system of universal geography... London; J Cooke, 1790, opp p14. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 119 x 137 mm

Date: 1926

By: Harding, William Guy, 1883-1978

Reference: A-108-016

Description: Head and shoulders frontal view of a warrior wielding a patu, a fierce expression on his face A-108-016 to -020 appear to be originals for book illustrations Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: H Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 114 x 139 mm Provenance: Unknown

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-088-2

Description: A warrior armed with a patu Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Maori warrior with greenstone mere Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 87 x 57 mm