Places

Date: 1957

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1957/4289-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm

Date: 1904

From: [Metal filing cabinet containing postcards]

By: Littleburys (Firm); Levett, Olga Gorton, 1891-1970; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: Eph-POSTCARDS-Tobin-01

Description: Card shows a photograph of travellers beside a campfire at Mokau Inlet. There is a whare on the left and a hut at the right. The card is addressed on the verso to Miss Olga Levett of Bulls, Rangitikei. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on postcard 87 x 139 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Helen Tobin in 1997.

Date: 1864 - 1866

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-002

Description: Shows two men in the centre foreground, one sitting against a fallen tree trunk, one crouched with hand to face. Behind them, at right a man raises an axe to cut a tree trunk, a fuel-gatherer carries a bundle of greenery and wood, and a man accompanies two pack-donkeys at left. Two men attend to a cooking-fire. In the background is a row of tents, shacks, a washing-line and a general store. In the right distance, masts of two sailing ships are visible in the port. Date assigned with reference to dated picture of Hokitika Beach by same artist. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 177 x 240 mm. (rectangular with rounded corners).

Date: 1850

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-010

Description: Shows a night-time camping scene, lit by a campfire, with members of the six-strong camping party (a woman and five men) seated around the campfire, some of them in the entrance to a tent at the left. The tent uses a flowering cabbage tree as a ridge-pole. The scene may show John Robert Godley, Charlotte Godley (and possibly their son Arthur), as well as Charles Torlesse, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Hunter Brown and Mr Boys. In a letter to her mother, starting 13 December, Charlotte Godley describes being led on a camping trip with Weld, including camping at the edge of Rangiora Bush on 6 December 1950. She writes of their camp being 'just on the edge of thick, almost impenetrable wood, with very fine trees; and our little tent with a fire at the door, quite shaded over by the tall waving toi-toi grass, and the large one for the gentlemen a little beyond, with such a magnificent fire ... Mr Weld ... went and got me a bouquet ... it was the flower of the cabbage tree ... ' (Godley, Charlotte. Letters from early New Zealand (Christchurch, 1951), p 145. Other Titles - Rangiora, North Canterbury Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 90 x 110 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1900

By: Baker, William George, 1864-1929

Reference: G-550

Description: Shows two groups of Maori whare on a river in the foreground; the two groups are linked by a low wooden bridge. A waka is drawn up on the bank in the foreground and several figures stand in front of the huts. Beside the central group of two whare there is a drying pole on which a row of fish or game are hung. The figures beside the whare at far right are tending a campfire. The clearing is surrounded by native bush and there is a cabbage tree and flax at the far right. In the centre distance is Mount Taranaki dominating the scene. May show Rehu village, inland from Patea Inscriptions: Mount verso - top left - [Title, late twentieth-early 21st century, on paper stapled to frame] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 440 x 645 mm (sight)

Date: 1860

Reference: A-423-014

Description: Shows two tents in the left foreground on a high point of land, with a campfire between them; they are overlooking another headland also with a campfire, and bay area. In the right middle distance is an island or headland, and on the horizon are two other land masses. The soldiers near the tents appear to wear blue military jackets and red hats. There is a British flag and red ensign flying on flying on two flagpoles in the left foreground. Location may not be New Zealand. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 136 x 195 mm.

Date: 1847 - 1849

By: Abbot, Edward Immyns, 1822-1849; Crowder, John, active 1986-2000

Reference: B-155-010

Description: Shows two bearded surveyors attempting to boil a billy over an open camp fire, in bleak wet weather, on a treeless plateau with mountains in the background. One man, smoking a pipe, is dressed in a torn jacket, and attempts to warm his hands over the fire. His companion, at the left, tries to shelter the fire from the wind with his hat. At the far left, a miserable dog stands in front of the opening of a tent. The smoke blows from the fire in a direction opposite to what one would expect judging by the slant of the rain. Abbot was part of a surveying party contracted in 1847, with Sydney M Scraggs, northwards along the Taieri plain and further north. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 241 x 349 mm

Date: 1850

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-011

Description: Shows a tent and shelter with camp fire on the nearer (south) side of the river. On the far side are two Maori whare and two food storage platforms. A range of foothills of the Southern Alps, including Mount Grey, is in the distance. In the centre foreground by the tent, are a European man, woman and child, probably the Godley family. Two further people are by the campfire and tent on the right. There are flax bushes and scrub on the south side of the river, and a cabbage tree on the north side Compare a very similar view in Canterbury Museum titled by Weld 'Camp, banks of Courtenay (Waimakariri) Canterbury Plains, Dec 5th, 1850'. The Canterbury Museum view contains more people and a clearer view of the shelter and camp fire on the right. On Dec 5th 1850, Weld camped on the south bank of the Waimakariri with John Robert Godley, Charlotte Godley and their three-year old son Arthur Godley, as well as Charles Torlesse, Charles Hunter Brown, E J Wakefield and a surveyor, Mr Boys. Charlotte Godley wrote to her mother about the camp 'The little tent, just big enough for a bed for us three ... The flax bushes and grass grew all about, higher than our tent ... As it got dark, a party of natives, who had been assembling at some huts just across the river, came over in a canoe to pay us a visit ... Next morning we were up early, and ... had to cross the river in a canoe, the horses having to be swum over' (Godley, Charlotte. Letters from early New Zealand. Christchurch, 1951, pp 143-144). The man seated in the tent is likely to be John Robert Godley, while Charlotte Godley will be the woman holding the hand of their small son Arthur by the river. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 245 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1860

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-005-015

Description: Shows the interior of a whare, with a white-bearded Maori man sitting on the ground beside a fire, a small dog asleep on the ground beside him. A taiaha leans on the wall at the left, and on the far wall hangs a kete and a musket. The man wears a dogskin cloak and an earring. Through the open doorway can be seen a canoe drawn up on the shore of Wellington Harbour, and a group of three figures (two kneeling, apparently blowing on a fire below a cauldron) close to a gap in the fence of wooden spiked poles. A hill, probably the Western Hills near Petone, is visible in the background The title of this work on acquisition, assigned by the seller, was Maori in whare at Pipitea Pa. However the man depicted bears a strong resemblance to Honiana Te Puni (compare Barraud's lithograph 'Te Puni' published 1877 as plate II in New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive) and the oil paintings held by the Wellington City Council and National Library of Australia. The dogskin cloak being worn, with a lighter patch on the left front opening, is also very like the cloak shown in Barraud's other portraits of Te Puni. If the subject is Te Puni, the whare in which he is seated is more likely to be at Petone Pa than at Pipitea Pa. The sea and hills behind are also positioned as if from a view from of Petone Pa, not those near Pipitea Pa. Other Titles - [Maori in whare at Pipitea Pa. Original title] Epuni Petone Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. D. Barraud N.Z. 1860 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 235 x 343 mm (mounted)

Date: 1831 - 1937 - 1939

By: Downes, Thomas William, 1868-1938; Bathgate, Charles McLelland, 1893-1970

Reference: A-076-023

Description: Shows Powers lying in boat in right foreground, while some of a group of six natives ties one of his three companions to a pole. One threatens towards the tied man with a mere. There is a campfire and a kete lies on the ground. Features Andrew Powers, one of the first white men to see Lake Taupo. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 209 x 308 mm.

Date: 1910

From: Daley, J M :Photographs of Paraparaumu and Plimmerton

Reference: 1/2-071079-F

Description: Women from the Whiting and Vaughan party cooking on a camp fire, at Kapiti Island, in 1910. The woman on the left holds a teapot. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; McLeod, Katie, active 1990

Reference: B-063-041

Description: Shows the Akaroa foreshore with James Bruce's hotel and jetty, tents and cottages, a flagpole, canoes and a bridge over the small Kaitangata Stream, with hills beyond. Some figures appear to be Maori, and there are crossed canoe paddles forming the open end of the tent or whare on the right. The view is located in southern Akaroa, in 'English Town' Compare with ink sketch of same scene, with same title and date, also by Mantell (A-049-023). Other Titles - January Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Akaroa / 22 Jan.1849. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 272 x 382 mm.

Date: 1866

By: Tempsky, Gustavus Ferdinand von, 1828-1868; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-198-008

Description: Shows Von Tempsky, smoking a pipe and seated by the cartwheel in the foreground, with Dr I. E. Featherston standing behind him. Sergeant Birchfield may be the standing soldier on the left, guarding the group. Seated are Maori guide Te Mahuki and his wife Takeroa (Lucy). There is a horse standing by the cart on the right. There is a billy boiling on a campfire in the centre of the group of figures. The group is in the foreground looking out over an encampment at the right in mid-distance, with troops moving on lower further hills, and in the distance a hilltop fort or pa, with a flag flying. There is a cabbage tree in the left foreground. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 254 x 352 mm Provenance: Possibly collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull.

Date: 1887

By: Laishley, Richard, 1816-1897

Reference: G-708

Description: Shows a Maori family in a bush clearing, their houses and domestic animals (pigs), around them. A group sits around a camp fire in the middle background. There is a kete (woven flax basket) in the right foreground. Other Titles - Maoris at home Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 908 x 698 mm

Date: 1837

By: Wade, William Richard, 1802-1891

Reference: PUBL-0031-37

Description: Shows a campfire between two tents at night. On the left, a man (reportedly James Kemp) stands preaching to a group of Maori seated on the ground. The scene is probably in a Bay of Islands village Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, size unknown.

Date: 1850 - 1890

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Clere, Richard H, active 1966

Reference: G-003

Description: Shows a waka with four figures and a dog in it, floating on water close to the near shore on which flax bushes are growing. There are two pukeko in the centre foreground. On a promontory or island in the lake or inlet, there is a group of whare, with smoke from a cooking fire rising. Beyond are hills, with the distant range tinged pink in the morning or evening light. Location unknown. The promontory may be an island, and could possibly be around Lake Rotomahana or Tarawera. The landforms are very similar to a view 'Puai Island and Otukapuarangi, Lake Rotomahana' by J G Mitford, a watercolour owned by Rotorua Museum Cleaned and waxed in July 1986 by John Slingsby Barraud, grandson of the artist, Taupo, New Zealand. Attribution from previous owners. Other Titles - [Puai Island and Otukapuarangi, Lake Rotomahana] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 455 x 610 mm. Provenance: Given to Richard H Clere in 1966, by his parents.

Date: 1871

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Sketchbook [of New Zealand views. 1871-1876].

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908; Hamblett, Irene Beatrix, 1915-1995

Reference: E-400-f-007

Description: Shows two men beside campfire and hut on hillside looking west over hills to the Wairoa River widening towards the Kaipara Harbour. On verso of E-400-f-006 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J.P.B. / 14.3.71; Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and monochrome wash, 261 x 370 mm.

Date: 1891

By: Forsyth, James, -1896; Evening press (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-EMPLOYMENT-1891-01

Description: Shows 7 small scenes, entitled: (1) The start, (2)Public hall Pahiatua 12.30 am, (3) On the road; 3 miles of slush, glue and water, (4)'The Corner" as seen from No. 10 Gang's fire, (5) Our camp at Poverty Flat, (6) Joe packing flour, (7) Archie, a cool costume. N.B. The kilt is a blanket. The identity of artist Mr Forsyth is unknown at this time. This sheet was issued separately and along with a single-sheet text supplement to the issue of the Evening Press" 6 June 1891. The supplement's text included a fiction story and other chatty text items, but no mention of the Unemployed subject. In the issue for 6 June itself, was a short paragraph about Unemployment in the column "The Labour Interest", a column initiated and announced as a regular feature around ten days prior to 6 June, as labour issues had been growing in importance. The following month, the Woodville Examiner, 15 July 1891, page 2 printed a letter from a member of the Unemployed at the Pahiatua camp. Inscriptions: Most sketches signed: Forsyth; Recto - bottom right - Evening Press Litho. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 505 x 323 mm.

Date: 1905

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: B-163-008

Description: Shows a view of Milford Sound from the shore looking towards Mitre Peak. On a low spit in the foreground, two figures have anchored a small sailboat and are tending a campfire. A steam sails on the sound in the middle distance. The higher peaks are snow-capped, indicating a winter season. In the close foreground several seagulls stand on the shore or wheel above it. The artist was probably resident in Auckland by 1905, the date at which this work was painted. He may have worked from a photograph of Milford Sound Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 263 x 375 mm.

Date: 1854

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-008

Description: Looking towards both the Pink and the White Terraces and other thermal features across Lake Rotomahana. In the left foreground are three European men, one admiring the view, the other two starting a campfire. A Maori man is poling a canoe at the water's edge. The island to the right, with buildings visible may be Puai Island Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 340 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.