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Date: 1863

From: Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867

Reference: E-395-016

Description: A letter in Maori, signed Sarah. Transcribed as: 'te pia te pia e ta te / e ta te hoa e mitipia tena ra koe ka nui toku aroha atu kia koe --- --- --- [?] / Hera peti mata / nui te pia e ta tena ra koe / Sarah / e ta e te pakeha koe e au ra e a matou / Naku e ta / Ruapuke' [No translation; transcription supplied by Dr Lachy Paterson, University of Otago, December 2012] Quantity: 1 holograph. Physical Description: Pencil, 147 x 198 mm glued to sheet 228 x 177 mm

Date: 1863

From: Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867

Reference: E-395-036

Description: A letter in Maori, dated Akuhata (August) 17 1863 sending love to William Speer, from a woman of Ruapuke Transcription: 'Ruapuke Akuhata 17/1863 / Haere ra etaku aroha kia Mitipihi e ta tena ra koe ka nui toku aroha kia koe / He mihi atu taku kia koe te noho maina i kona / Ka mutu ia Matou hoa aroha / Na hera tieri' Translation: Ruapuke, August 17, 1863 / Go my love to Mr Speer. Sir, greetings. Great is my love for you. / I greet you who is living there. / Ended, by our loving friends. / From Sarah Tieri[?] Transcription and translation provided by Dr Lachy Paterson, University of Otago, December 2012 Quantity: 1 holograph. Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 88 x 205 mm glued to sheet 228 x 177 mm

Date: 1910 - 1920

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: C-109-014

Description: Nineteen vignettes of daily life, mostly of Maori life, including a parody of a Goldie portrait (All 'e same te Pakeha) showing an elderly Maori man grimacing and quaffing rum; a Maori woman with toothache; "A hero of many fights", a profile view of a tattooed man with many bandages on his face; "On the Waipa", a Maori woman rowing as she drinks alcohol, with a small boy and a pig eyeing one another in the front of the canoe. Also scenes of European, or not racially specific life: "The end of the garden" showing a cow chewing up planted carrots; "Crossing the Manukau Bar" with people vomitting over the edge of a ship in high waves; "Roses" with a Pakeha man with a drinker's red nose; "In the Domain" showing groups of lovers embracing; "The Emerald Isle" showing Irishmen murdering each other; "Waiting to be shod" showing two old hacks waiting for shoeing at the blacksmith's, while the blacksmith embraces a woman. The original for a drawing published in the Auckland Weekly news, 20 July 1905, supplement p. 5. Other Titles - Scenes of Maori life [former title] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - T. L. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 362 x 530 mm

Date: 1863 - 1865

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-012

Description: A picnic with a dozen people sitting on the ground. Part of the text below is missing but the main male character appears to be offering beer to a young woman. Others are also holding beer bottles and glasses The artist was a surgeon with the British forces during the Waikato-Tauranga war of the mid 1860s Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 231 x 212 mm (irregular)

Date: 1863

From: Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867

Reference: E-395-023

Description: Portrait of a Maori woman 'Gootie' in the centre of the page. At the top, a folded sheet of note paper containing a lock of black hair belonging to 'Princess' Kihou of Ruapuke. At the bottom, a length of purple silk ribbon, inside a sheet of paper. Ellen Kihou Patuki Pihou of Ruapuke is likely to be the daughter of Topi Patuki of Ruapuke. Speer refers to her elsewhere as Princess Kihou (E-395-016) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). 2 curio(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 37 x 38 mm, a lock of hair and a ribbon inside two sheets of folded paper