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Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
- Date
- 1869, 1871, 1920-2011
- By
- Binney, Judith Mary Caroline (Dame), 1940-2011
- Reference
- ATL-Group-00190
- Description
Extensive research notes, including correspondence and photocopies of documents; index cards, lecture notes and other papers relating to Dame Judith Binney's long career as a historian. Of particular significance are papers relating to her highly-praised work on Thomas Kendall, Rua Kenana, Te Kooti Rikirangi Turuki, and the history of the Urewera region and Tūhoe iwi. The collection also contains her electronic correspondence, including 15 email mailboxes from her personal email address.
Photographic materials include prints, negatives, and transparencies, collected and taken by Binney.
Collection contains a significant number of sound recordings of oral history interviews, mainly with Tūhoe elders. Also includes transcripts and notes for some interviews, and other video and sound recordings of interest to Binney for her research and teaching.
Title supplied by Library.
The Library also holds digitised copies of oral history interviews described in Series 15 of the collection. The digitised copies were created by the University of Auckland Archive of Māori and Pacific Music. These are described at ATL-Group-00215.
Prominent New Zealand historian, particularly noted for her well-regarded works on Māori responses to colonisation. Her works include biographies of the early missionary, Thomas Kendall, the Tūhoe leader, Rua Kenana, and the Māori leader and founder of the Ringatu Church, Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki.
Quantity: 795 colour original photographic print(s). 563 folder(s). 465 b&w original photographic print(s). 361 Electronic document(s) Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDF. 289 colour original negative(s). 252 b&w original negative(s). 247 digital photograph(s). 212 C60 cassette(s). 37 C90 cassette(s). 31 videocassette(s) VHS. 21 Linear Metres. 15 Electronic document(s) Email mailboxes. 6 digital sound recording(s). 5 object(s). 2 audiocassette(s). 1 album(s).
Physical Description: Manuscripts, typescripts, printed matter, photographs, photographic negatives, sound recordings, video recordings, and oral history transcripts and notes
Transfers: Material received as a whole into Manuscripts, parts transferred to other collections from there: - To Ephemera Collection - Posters, stamp of the savings bank set up by Rua Kenana - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Drawing of College of Church Missionary Society - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Regalia: Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit 2006, Elsdon Best Memorial Medal 2009, Epsom Girls Grammar School Founders Award 2011, University of Auckland Alumni Award 2007, Fellow of the Auckland War Memorial Museum 2011 (Curios-046-001/005). - To Newspaper Collection - Selected Māori newspapers.
Processing information: In June 2017, the photographic and oral history parts of the collection that had been described separately (PA-Group-00720 and OHColl-1112) were reintegrated into the main manuscripts collection (MS-Papers-1976). The collection as a whole was given a new reference number, ATL-Group-00190.
Objects added to ATL group, November 2022.
- Use/Reproduction
- The collection includes extensive copies of material from other institutions and individuals. These cannot be copied without the permission of the institution where the originals are held or the individual owner(s) of the original(s). Copyright: Please check copyright.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material - Access to files identified as restricted require the written permission of the Chief Librarian.
- Format
- 795 colour original photographic print(s), 563 folder(s), 465 b&w original photographic print(s), 361 Electronic document(s) Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDF, 289 colour original negative(s), 252 b&w original negative(s), 247 digital photograph(s), 212 C60 cassette(s), 37 C90 cassette(s), 31 videocassette(s) VHS, 21 Linear Metres, 15 Electronic document(s) Email mailboxes, 6 digital sound recording(s), 5 object(s), 2 audiocassette(s), 1 album(s), Audiovisual materials, Electronic documents, Manuscripts, Personal papers, Typescripts, Audiocassettes, Manuscripts, typescripts, printed matter, photographs, photographic negatives, sound recordings, video recordings, and oral history transcripts and notes
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Taua Makarini, oral history interview notes and transcript
Date: 1981
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
By: Makarini, Taua, 1901-1987
Reference: OHA-8024
Description: Annotated transcript of interviews with Taua Makarini, dated 6 July 1981, 20 December 1981. Title supplied by Library Audio recordings described at OHC-024064 to OHC- 024065; OHC-024067 - OHC-024068; OHC-024081 to OHC-024082. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Search dates: 1981
Index cards - Yate
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11115-024
Description: Index cards relating to Binney's research into the life of the missionary William Yate Quantity: 1 box(es).
Ralph Johnson, The Northern War, 1844-1846
Date: 2006-2007
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11115-142
Description: Correspondence from Ralph Johnson and a copy of 'The Northern War 1844-1846' an overview report commissioned by the Crown Forestry Rental Trust, by Ralph Johnson 2006 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Wentworth Indenture
Date: 1993
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-12057-084
Description: Correspondence of 1993 between Binney and David Colquhoun regarding the Alexander Turnbull Library's acquisition of the Wentworth Indenture document from Sotheby's auctions in London. Includes press releases and related photocopes of articles and publications, including a photocopy of a chapter from 'Te Wai Pounamu the Greenstone Island' by Harry C Evison (Aoraki Press, 1993). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts and photocopies
Correspondence with Malcolm and Duncan Ross
Date: 2001
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11865-3
Description: Correspondence between Binney and Malcolm Ross and Duncan Ross, the two sons of historian Ruth Ross. Written while Binney was editing 'The shaping of history: essays from the New Zealand journal of history'. Correspondence mainly relates to the reprint of Ross' 1972 article 'Te Tiriti o Waitangi: texts and translations' within this collection of essays Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Sketch map of the North Island shewing Native Tribal Boundaries, Topographical Features...
Date: 1869
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
Reference: MSO-Papers-11951-1
Description: Manuscript map from Judith Binney's estate. Sketch map of North Island of New Zealand showing native tribal boundaries (1869) Other - Other copies of this map also at MSI-Papers-11115-1 and MapColl 832hkm 1869 1748-9 (including a digital copy). Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Canvas-backed paper with wooden hanging bars, 77 x 51 cm sight within 89 x 58 cm
Sketch map of the North Island shewing approximately the loyal and rebel districts - fr...
Date: 1869
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
Reference: MSO-Papers-11951-2
Description: Sketch map of North Island of New Zealand with additions relating to the Taranaki War of 1860-1861. Notes on the reverse of the map read 'Keith Sinclair, Do not remove - AJHR 1870 D-23' (refers to Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand E,23). Other - Another copy of this map is held at MapColl 832hkm 1869 366 Quantity: 1 map(s) with additions. Physical Description: Canvas-backed paper with wooden hanging bars, 82 x 54.5 cm
Copy of photographs showing two rural settlements, including Maungapohatu
Date: [1934?], Dec 1934
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
Reference: 35mm-100285
Description: Negative strip of four copy negatives showing rural settlements. Two identical images show Maungapohatu in December 1934, photographed by Flora Johnston. A further two identical images are unidentified, possibly Maungapohatu, probably taken by Flora Johnston. Bibliography - Judith Binney et al, Mihaia: The prophet Rua Kenana and his community at Maungapohatu (Wellington, N.Z. : Oxford University Press, c1979), page 168. For photograph identified as Maungapohatu see published image in Judith Binney et al, Mihaia: The prophet Rua Kenana and his community at Maungapohatu (Wellington, N.Z. : Oxford University Press, c1979), page 168. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s) strip with four images. Physical Description: Film negative Transfers: Originally in a folder titled by Binney: 'Copy negs. Mihaia, including later ones (i.e. not used)'. - - Original negative enclosures held at PAColl-9928-38..
Copy of a photograph of women being brought from Hiruharama Hou, at Maungapohatu, under...
Date: 1916
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
Reference: 1/2-237005
Description: Copy negative of a scene at Maungapohatu in 1916 showing women being brought from Hiruharama Hou under police guard. Photographer unidentified. Identified from same (possibly lesser quality) image published in Judith Binney et al, Mihaia, The prophet Rua and his community at Maungapohatu (Wellington, N.Z. : Oxford University Press, c1979), page 114. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Transfers: Originally in a folder titled by Binney: 'Copy negs. Mihaia, including later ones (i.e. not used)' and from an envelope titled by Binney: 'Shapcott. Copy negs taken from his copies of Bill Neil's photos - compare also prints taken off his borrowed negs.' - - Original negative enclosures held at PAColl-9928-38..
Copy of an unidentified scene, possibly at Maungapohatu, including Hiruharama Hou
Date: [ca 1916]
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
Reference: 1/2-237003
Description: Copy negative of an unidentified scene, possibly at Maungapohatu including Hiruharama Hou, circa 1916. Relates to Rua Kenana. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Transfers: Originally in a folder titled by Binney: 'Copy negs. Mihaia, including later ones (i.e. not used)' and from an envelope titled by Binney: 'Shapcott. Copy negs taken from his copies of Bill Neil's photos - compare also prints taken off his borrowed negs.' - - Original negative enclosures held at PAColl-9928-38..