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Date: [ca. 1846]

Reference: A-465-021

Description: Shows bullocks pulling a cannon on wheels, with three soldiers. One soldier sits on the cannon; one drives the bullocks with a whip; the third walks behind the cannon, his rifle resting on his shoulder. In the background there are hills, and possibly a Maori pa Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Pukekawa [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Monochrome watercolour on paper, 123 x 190 mm

Date: 1884

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025750-F

Description: Kawhia Armed Constabulary on parade under Captain Messenger. Shows two rows of men standing outside, holding rifles at their sides. Photograph taken in 1884 at Kawhia by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - From identical image on lantern slide: "Kawhia AC's on parade under Capt Messenger. 1884. THW & WW Photographed during a trip to Kawhia by William Williams, and his friend Thomas H Wyatt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 24 September 1894

From: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 :Maori portraits and artifacts

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PAColl-1893-01

Description: Guard of honour at tangi of Tawhiao. The guard are carrying rifles. Photograph taken 24 September 1894 by Enos Pegler. King Tawhiao died 26 August 1894 at Parawera. He was buried at Taupiri after a tangi in September. On 24 September the tangi was open to pakeha visitors. The photograph was taken that day with a "Facile" camera. Sources of information: DNZB, vol 2; Sharland's New Zealand Photographer, 8 Oct 1894; William Main, Auckland through a Victorian lens (Wellington: Millwood, 1977). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 9.7 x 14.9 cm

Date: 24 September 1894

From: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 :Maori portraits and artifacts

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PAColl-1893-04

Description: Guard of honour at tangi of Tawhiao. The guard are carrying rifles. Photograph taken 24 September 1894 by Enos Pegler. King Tawhiao died 26 August 1894 at Parawera. He was buried at Taupiri after a tangi in September. On 24 September the tangi was open to pakeha visitors. The photograph was taken that day with a "Facile" camera. Sources of information: DNZB, vol 2; Sharland's New Zealand Photographer, 8 Oct 1894; William Main, Auckland through a Victorian lens (Wellington: Millwood, 1977). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 9.6 x 14.3 cm

Date: 1884

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025758-G

Description: Soldiers in the Armed Constabulary redoubt at Kawhia. Shows men alongside tents. Photograph taken by William Williams in 1884. Inscriptions: From lantern slide: "In the A C redoubt, Kawhia" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1864

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: A-033-012

Description: Shows Judea Redoubt close to Gate Pa, Bay of Plenty. Pitched tents on the left and scattered figures in the foreground. There is washing hanging from a clothesline close to the small raupo huts on the right. Mount Maunganui is in the background. Robley named the site from Huria, a Maori village alongside. Explanatory note on back of sketch This watercolour is thought to be the only existing view of Judea Redoubt Other Titles - Judea Redoubt Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 203 x 280 mm

Date: 1863

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

Reference: E-248-q-082

Description: Military tents, cannons and palisades in the foreground, looking towards hills with extensive river and swamps in the middle ground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 140 x 226 mm

Date: 1864

From: Ruck, Charlotte Steward, 1840?-1916 :[Scrapbooks, ca 1860 to ca 1899]

By: Tempsky, Gustavus Ferdinand von, 1828-1868

Reference: E-309-q-2-107-1

Description: Photograph of a watercolour (or possibly an ink and wash sketch) by G. F. von Tempsky. The location of the original watercolour is not known. Another copy of this photograph is held by descendants of the artist in Hawaii. Shows four soldiers and one Maori in the foreground, firing towards a Maori fortification on a hill in the background. A letter from the artist to Thomas Russell, Minister for Colonial Defence on 11 February 1864 probably refers to this sketch. See G. F. von Tempsky, Artist and Adventurer, by Rose Young (Martinborough, 1981), p. 324 for further details. The sketch was done in the field, possibly with ink and wash. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Sepia photograph of a watercolour, 99 x 188 mm

Date: 1864 - 1865

From: Fraser, I T[allon?] B :[Scrapbook. 1864-1910].

By: Fraser, I T B, active 1863-1890s

Reference: E-571-q-001

Description: Shows a foreshortened view of a rowboat full of soldiers approaching a stockade or fort, with a fenced group of tents at the top of a hill and other tents pitched to its right and downhill. Extended Title - From his scrapbook, 1864-1925, page 1. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Tallon?] B Fraser / 1st W[aikato?] Regt; Recto - bottom right - Mere Mere. I T B F; Recto - beneath image - Mere Mere Waikato River Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Ink and wash drawing, 177 x 254 mm, on page 290 x 235 mm.

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-017

Description: A standing armed soldier and two seated Maori in the centre foreground, looking towards Te Awamutu township. A fort is enclosed within a fence on the right, and the church on the left is surrounded by other buildings with puffs of smoke, either from fires or shot. Several Maori dwellings are in the foreground. A plain lies beyond the town and hills are in the distance Copied by Hamley from a drawing of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, now in the Hocken Library in E. A. Williams' Notebook, p. 57. The Turnbull has a slide of this work (under the same title as Hamley's). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 121 x 196 mm

Date: 24 September 1894

From: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 :Maori portraits and artifacts

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PAColl-1893-05

Description: King Tawhiao's soldiers performing a haka at his tangi. Photograph taken 24 September 1894 by Enos Pegler. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - copyright NZ 94; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Tawhiao the Maori King's tangi. Maori forces of.... King Tawhiao died 26 August 1894 at Parawera. He was buried at Taupiri after a tangi in September. On 24 September the tangi was open to pakeha visitors. The photograph was taken that day with a "Facile" camera. Sources of information: DNZB, vol 2; Sharland's New Zealand Photographer, 8 Oct 1894; William Main, Auckland through a Victorian lens (Wellington: Millwood, 1977). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 14.5 x 19.8 cm

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911

Reference: E-047-q-014

Description: A flat area beside the Waipa River, with bush-clad banks on either side. In the background the pink of massed peach blossom can be seen. In the middle distance are whare or tents, with smoke rising from cooking fires. A soldier on horseback is in the left foreground While many of Hamley's watercolours are copied from those of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, this work may be his own Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title - partly erased] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 119 x 191 mm.

Date: 1863 - 1864

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0033-1864-216-2

Description: Shows an event that occurred in 1863, Maori prisoners waiting to be place on board the H M S Pioneer. The drawing is inaccurate in that the Pioneer was a paddlesteamer, and the paddle is not shown here. In fact it actually shows the "Corio" steamer. Three issues later, the Illustrated London news acknowledged this mistake. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 100 x 240 mm.

Date: 24 September 1894

From: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 :Maori portraits and artifacts

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PAColl-1893-08

Description: Guard of honour at tangi of Tawhiao. The guard are carrying rifles. Photograph taken 24 September 1894 by Enos Pegler. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - King Tawhiao's tangi, the body guard King Tawhiao died 26 August 1894 at Parawera. He was buried at Taupiri after a tangi in September. On 24 September the tangi was open to pakeha visitors. The photograph was taken that day with a "Facile" camera. Sources of information: DNZB, vol 2; Sharland's New Zealand Photographer, 8 Oct 1894; William Main, Auckland through a Victorian lens (Wellington: Millwood, 1977). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 15.2 x 20 cm

Date: 1863

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0033-1863-476

Description: Looking down from above onto a road carved out through dense bush, with cavalry and infantry marching along it. Large trunks from the cleared bush in the foreground The Library holds another version of this view at A-134-011, from a source other than the Illustrated London news Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 240 mm

Date: 1864

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-438-009

Description: Shows the earthworks at Rangiriri Pa, with soldiers wandering about the site. One soldier is sitting in the foreground with his pack box. Other Titles - Rangiriri Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Black and white engraving on cropped page, 158 x 277 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, July 2010.

Date: 24 September 1894

From: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 :Maori portraits and artifacts

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PAColl-1893-06

Description: Guard of honour at tangi of Tawhiao. The man in the foreground, probably the commander of the guard, carries a sword. The guard, lined up at right, have laid their rifles on the ground. A group of pakeha visitors to the tangi, including children, are at left. Photograph taken 24 September 1894 by Enos Pegler. King Tawhiao died 26 August 1894 at Parawera. He was buried at Taupiri after a tangi in September. On 24 September the tangi was open to pakeha visitors. The photograph was taken that day with a "Facile" camera. Sources of information: DNZB, vol 2; Sharland's New Zealand Photographer, 8 Oct 1894; William Main, Auckland through a Victorian lens (Wellington: Millwood, 1977). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 14.6 x 19.6 cm

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-033

Description: Scene in a military camp, with soldiers making high circular wickerwork baskets in the foreground. A cavalryman in on horseback in the centre. Tents and low barracks are in the background. Compare the right side of a similar sketch in the Hocken Library by E. A. Williams, Hamley's superior officer 'Siege train on Pukerimu Flats, Waikato, 1864. Soldiers making gabions'. The sketch is p. 15 of Williams' sketchbook, now disbound and separately mounted. Many of Hamley's sketches are copied from Williams Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream paper, 181 x 268 mm.

Date: 1864

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: B-043-017

Description: Shows 6 European soldiers on a small hilltop, repulsing an attack by 13 Maori, several of whom have been killed. There are cabbage trees and flax bushes on the hill Notes on back by A.W.F. Fuller, 7 May 1941, quoting extract from Gudgeon's "Defenders of New Zealand", page 125: "Captain Heaphy was with Col. Sir H. Havelock, V.C. on the 11th February 1864, reconnoitring the country near Waiari, in the Waikato, when a party of the 40th Regiment, who were bathing, were fired upon. A number of soldiers from the adjoining camp appeared on the scene as quickly as possible, but in some disorder, and Col. Havelock placed Capt Heaphy in charge of the detachment. A soldier was seen lying near the edge of the creek, wounded and bleeding, an artery having been severed. Capt Heaphy having some knowledge of surgery, volunteered to go to his assistance, &, having reached him, was engaged in taking up the artery when he was fired at by a body of natives, who were concealed in the fern close by. He was struck and slightly wounded in 3 places, but nevertheless succeeded in completing his work of humanity &, with the assistance of some soldiers, in carrying off the man..." See other depiction of this scene by Augustus Florance (which shows how the parapet fits into the general landscape with stream) "Maori tactics. Fight at Waiari on the Mangapiko River, NZ on the 11th of February 1864". ATL: C-031-001. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash 380 x 545 mm

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-067

Description: View up the Waikato River with soldiers and a military tent on the bank to the left and a paddle steamer further up the river The paddle steamer is likely to be the Koheroa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 100 x 160 mm