Whakatāne District Museum & Gallery

Date: 1896

By: Forsyth, James, -1896

Reference: A-466-016

Description: Shows a print of the earliest-known coloured illustration of the town of Whakatane, dated 1896. The painting was given or sold by the artist to the proprietors of the Commercial Hotel, which can be seen on the left. Also shows the hotel Whakatane, to the right, and a steamer, probably the 'Chelmsford'. The Maori village of Wairaka is on the extreme left. Other identified buildings include the flax mill, in the centre of the picture, and the town's first store in the brown gabled building with three windows, to the right. The dominating flat-topped hill is Puketapu, the site of a pa that was occupied up to the early 1800s Probably reproduced by the Whakatane District Museum and Gallery Jim Forsyth was Scottish, and appears to have been an itinerant painter. In 1896 he made a number of drawings of the Whakatane area. He stayed at the Commercial Hotel, and in a little house near the Ohiwa Hotel, where he died on 7 July 1896, at the age of 39. According to the New Zealand Herald of 24 July 1896, he died of self-inflicted head wounds caused by a small tomahawk Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, printed on card 146 x 305 mm Provenance: Anonymous donation, January 2015

Date: 1980 - 1990

By: Pukapuka Publications Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-MAORI-1980s-Pukapuka

Description: Reproductions of portrait photographs from several collecting institutions: 01. Maori woman with moko (1860s), reprinted from the Alexander Turnbull Library Collection 02. [Bearded Maori man in cloak holding axe], reprinted from the Whakatane Museum Collection 03. Maori man [with moko and whiskers], reprinted from the Alexander Turnbull Library Collection 04. Maori woman with moko, reprinted from the Whakatane Museum Collection 05. Rua Kenana (The Prophet), reprinted from the Alexander Turnbull Library Collection 06. Kaimaha - aged 101, reprinted from the Alexander Turnbull Library Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, 850 x 562 mm. Provenance: Acquired in the 1980s.

Date: 2012

By: White, Jonathan R, 1938-

Reference: ArtEph-2012-W-03

Description: Exhibition catalogue for oil paintings by Jonathan White. Landscapes include New Zealand scenes, as well as views in Germany, Romania, Egypt, United Kingdom, and Antarctica Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Offset print, [32] pages, stapled, colour illustrations

Date: [ca 1976-1979]

From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11115-197B

Description: Research correspondence relating to the publication of the book 'Mihaia: the prophet Rua Kenana and his community at Maungapohatu'. Names selectively indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1976-1979]

From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11115-197D

Description: Research correspondence relating to the publication of the book 'Mihaia: the prophet Rua Kenana and his community at Maungapohatu'. Names selectively indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1984-1996]

From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11115-198B

Description: Correspondence, contracts, notes and other material relating to the publication, launch of, awards for and reprints of 'Nga Morehu - The survivors' and 'Mihaia, the prophet Rua Kenana and his community at Maungapohatu'. Correspondence is selectively indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

By: Joplin, Elizabeth Mary, 1928-2017; Whakatāne District Museum & Gallery

Reference: PAColl-3392

Description: The World War One album covers the period 1914-1915 and includes snapshots taken at Zeitoun Camp, Kubri Ferry, Cairo, Lemnos and Gallipoli between April and December 1915. The photographs feature members of the New Zealand Medical Corps and includes photographs of trench life and views from the heights eg. The Apex. The photographer was Private (later Sergeant) George Clinton Halse of the New Zealand Medical Corps Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: The Albums were originally passed to the Whakatane District Museum by Mrs Elizabeth Joplin, 49 Eversleigh Road, Takapuna Road, Takapuna, Auckland 9. The albums were passed to the Whakatane District Museum by Mrs Elizabeth Joplin, 49 Eversleigh Road, Takapuna, Auckland 9. The Gallipoli album originally belonged to George Clinton Halse who served at Gallipoli with the New Zealand Medical Corps. Connection between G C Halse and Mrs Elizabeth Joplin uncertain.

Date: 2003 - 1916 - 2004

By: Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-

Reference: Eph-D-ARTS-2003-01

Description: Shows a reproduction of Bob Kerr's 72 panels of paintings relating to the police expedition to arrest Rua Kenana in 1916. At the bottom is a long panorama of hills in the Tuhoe country. Portraits taken from photographs include those of constables, inspectors and sergeants involved in the search for Rua Kenana. They are all named. The verso gives explanatory text and reproduces several more landscapes in Tuhoe Country and a portrait of Police Commissioner John Cullen. Notes are by Mark Derby. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster 595 x 420 mm.