Places

Date: 1842

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-041-4

Description: Shows a long low wooden house at the right, on top of a high bank above a river. There are hills in the background. Another small house or hut is visible in the left foreground, on the left bank of the river, with another in the distance at the foot of the background hills. It is not clear from the artist's title whether he is referring to a European called Mr Noble, or to an upper class Maori man, or family Location: Oruru is a small settlement south of Doubtless Bay Other Titles - September Maungataniwha Noble's Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pen and ink and sepia, 85 x 150 mm.

Date: 1842

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-036-1

Description: Shows a group of Maori seated under wide spreading trees, perhaps pohutukawa. There are dwellings under the trees in the distance. Other Titles - Oct Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, pen and ink, 90 x 150 mm

Date: 1851

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-005-3

Description: A tall carved boundary post, painted in red ochre, with a European fence beyond it and Mount Taranaki in the background. 'Waiwaikai' is Waiwhakaiho. Other Titles - Waiwhakaiho Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 78 x 46 mm

Date: 1857

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-138-3

Description: Sketch shows a house and outbuilding on a flat area, with bush behind and distant mountains. The outbuilding may be part of a nearby kainga or pa. Johann Riemenschneider was a German-born Methodist missionary at Warea, in South Taranaki. Other Titles - January 1857 Riemenschneider's Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 70 x 130 mm.

Date: 1846

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-002-3

Description: Scene on a marae showing a tangi for Te Heuheu (Manaanui), with groups of Maori weeping, their houses behind them Other images on the same page are correctly numbered as being on page 2. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pen and ink, 39 x 64 mm.

Date: 1845

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-093-1

Description: Shows a ragged tree stump and trees standing in the foreground, in front of a hilly landscape, with part of Matuku Pa and its fences below and to the left. Mr Randall Springer of the Whanganui Historical Society has identified this as a view in the Mokai Patea Range east of Utiku, rather than Patea in Taranaki. Identified by Richard Steedman, November 2003, as one of five views taken from Matuku Pa, inland Patea, on 13 March 1845. The five sketches are E-296-q-091-1, -091-8, -093-1, -093-3 and -095-1 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and sepia, 90 x 150 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1869

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-158-3

Description: A Maori family posed in front of a wooden cottage with thatched roof. A wooden chimney is on the left. The group consists of 6 women and a man. The house may be at the kaika at The Neck, Stewart Island. There are four photographs of Stewart Island Maori in Taylor's sketchbook, all albumen prints appearing to date from the 1860s. He is not known to have visited Stewart Island himself, but did call in by ship at Bluff in 1871 on his way back from Australia (he also visited Port Chalmers on the same trip) and he may have acquired the photographs on that occasion. The four are numbers E-296-q-154-1 & -2 and E-296-q-158-1 & -3 Other Titles - Stewart Island Quantity: 1 photograph(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Photograph (albumen print), 65 x 105 mm

Date: 1846 - 1850

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-153-2

Description: A frontal view of a carved whare with porch, central carved support pole and carved figures on both sides. Other Titles - Tokaanu Te Heuheu Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, ink & watercolour, 132 x 89 mm (corners trimmed)

Date: 1845

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-093-3

Description: Shows several trees standing on a small hill in the foreground, the buildings and fences of Matuku Pa just beyond, and hill country in the background. Mr Randall Springer of the Whanganui Historical Society has identified this as a view in the Mokai Patea Range east of Utiku, rather than Patea in Taranaki. Identified by Richard Steedman of Taumata Hauora Trust, Nov. 2003 as one of five drawings forming a panorama taken from Matuku Pa by Taylor on a visit on 13 March 2003. The five drawings are E-296-q-091-1, E-296-q-091-8, -093-1, -093-3 and -095-1 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and sepia, 90 x 150 mm.

Date: 1857

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-166-1

Description: Shows a group of Maori under a tree, in front of the dwellings of Pipiriki kainga, with the hills in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, pen & ink, 70 x 105 mm

Date: 1851

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-075-3

Description: Shows a single storey building with high-pitched roof, and what appears to be an H-shaped plan. Other Titles - 1851 Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and wash, 100 x 145 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1869

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-158-1

Description: A Maori village with European-style cottages with thatched roofs. A family group (a man, a woman and a boy) are standing outside the door of the nearest house, looking in the direction of the photographer. A bush-clad hill (with many dead trees) rises behind the houses Other Titles - Stewart Island kaika or kainga Quantity: 1 photograph(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Photograph (albumen print), 75 x 128 mm

Date: 1841

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-025-3

Description: The interior of a pa, with a cooking shelter to the right, a child in front with a cooking pot, a wharenui in the centre alongside the palisade, with a deep porch, the marae area in front fenced off with a low fence, a further small building to the right and a man and child seated in the foreground. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, pen and ink, 86 x 152 mm

Date: 1844

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-053-5

Description: Shows a group, perhaps a family of Maori sitting at the front of their raupo dwelling, around a campfire. There is a pet (dog?) in the left foreground, a gourd in the right foreground, and a kete hanging on a forked branched at the right. Bundles of fern and / or bedding are stacked at right and left. Other Titles - Ko nguhi Other Titles - Ko ngahi Other Titles - Ko ngatu Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, ink and sepia wash, 90 x 150 mm.

Date: 1849

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-015-1

Description: Shows a sketch of the pa at Lake Tarawera, with two whare, two drying platforms, and a palisade. Two figures are in the foreground, one standing and one squatting. Other Titles - Lake Tarawera Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and wash, 50 x 80 mm.

Date: 1857

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-120-1

Description: Shows a view of Pipiriki, with some buildings, single and double-storeyed, and cultivated fields on the hills behind. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, pen and ink, 105 x 185 mm.

Date: 1840 - 1849

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-147

Description: Shows a group of three Maori sitting in the left foreground with houses and storage huts of various sizes and shapes in the background. Behind them is vegetation, and a vertical cliff with a small building on the top of it. One small structure is round and has an unusual conical-shaped roof Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, pen, ink iand wash, 160 x 105 mm.