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Date: 8 May 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-029

Description: Scene on the banks of Lake Omapere (to the right) with a battle in progress around the outer perimeter of Puketutu Pa (centre left in the middle distance). Seated Maori and British soldiers are in the foreground, there are two groups of soliders in formation and others are lying at the crest of a rise in the middle distance, firing towards the pa. Other Titles - Okaihau Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 242 x 325 mm

Date: 1750 - 1800

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-2/4/1-2-Acc.36916-7

Description: Identifies main tribal areas, physical features and principal battles in the North Island pre 1800. Arrow also points to canoe areas. Includes the following: Ngata Toa, Maniapoto Raukawa, Tuwharetoa, Ngati Apa, Ati Awa, Ngati Manawa, Ngati Tama, Ngai Rangi etc. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) + 1 copy. Physical Description: Ink drawing on black paper. 61 x 45.5 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1845

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-079-004

Description: The British attack on Kapotai Pa, Waikare Inlet, Bay of Islands. Several armed redcoats by a clump of bushes in the foreground, other soldiers and "friendly" Maori firing from behind a line of bushes in the middle distance towards the fenced pa site set against hills. A European house outside the fencing on the right has other Maori around it. This attack took place in the Omapere area, a week after the attack on Puketutu Pa. Kapotai Pa was on one of the head creeks of the Waikare Inlet. Bridge organised a boat expedition to Kapotai Pa and burned the pa while the friendly Maori, under Tamati Waka Nene, fought the Kapotai in the bush. (Information from James Cowan's "The New Zealand Wars" (1922), p.45, where this image is reproduced. Inscriptions: Recto - [title in Bridge's hand and] Cyp.Bridge fecit [in pencil] cf A-079-025, John Williams' pastel sketch of the same view, possibly the field sketch, while Bridge's watercolour is more likely to be worked up from Williams' view. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white with scratching out 187 x 258 mm

Date: 1863

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0033-1863-212

Description: Shows a burning Maori redoubt in the centre, with British troops in the foreground. Mount Taranaki is in the background to the south. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 206 x 330 mm.

Date: 1845

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-079-005

Description: A group of six red-coated soldiers (with part of a seventh on the far right) and one "friendly" Maori in the foreground, behind a low shelter, loading and shooting towards the extensive palisades of Hone Heke's pa at Ohaiawai. The palisades are shown with rifle holes continously along the base to enable firing from behind protection; the English soldiers and their companion, on the other hand, are having to raise their heads above their shelter to fire, with the exception of those on the far right, who are behind a Maori-style palisade. There is a flag flying to the far left of the pa. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title, date and signatue Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 166 x 237 mm

Date: 1843 - 1851

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: B-103-030

Description: Shows a Maori warrior in the centre foreground, walking in a partly crouched position through low bushy growth, towards the right. He wears a feather cloak and carries a spear. To the left is a stream, flowing quietly between overgrown banks. In the centre background is a fencelike structure under the trees, part of the fencing surrounding the grave site. In the distance, a hill rises to the right. Dated from the date inscribed on another view by Gold taken at the same spot (A-329-014). The Wairau Affray took place in Tuamarina, Wairau Valley, on 17 June 1843. Other Titles - Wairau Affray Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 255 mm

Date: 2001

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DX-003-043

Description: Shows a decorated defence person in uniform pointing to the medal he received for his battles with the NZ Air Force and Navy. Relates to various conflicts within the defence forces. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 1845

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885; Smythe, Audrey Leonore, active 1976-1992

Reference: A-079-033

Description: Shows British soldiers and a group of allied Maori attacking Puketutu Pa near Lake Omapere, which is shown at the right. There are two groups of troops in formation in the left foreground, a loose group of officers supervising in the centre; and in front of the pa, soldiers engaging in gunfire. At the far end of the lake shore, soldiers scale a slope in order to be at the same level as the pa, which is shown with its wooden palisades in the left middle distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 251 x 342 mm

Date: 1864

Reference: MapColl-832.16hkm/[ca.1864]/Acc.1869

Description: Hand drawn military map of the area from the Waimapu River, including the Tauranga-Rotorua Road to Okauia, Irihanga, Wairoa River and Tauranga Harbour. Includes roads and tracks, one of which is marked as 'my scouting track - there and back close on forty miles'. Gate Pa is marked, settlements, rivers and some roads are named. Scenes of action are marked as crossed swords and some battle sites are named - Gate Pa, Te Ranga, Oropi, Waehi, Whakamarama. Directional arrows point to Rotorua and Okauia. Includes some hachures, sites of clearings and a location of a house. Title partly taken from the pencilled heading, believed to have been added at a later date, and the catalogue card. Pencilled title of map is written along the top edge and on reverse: [Sketch map of country around Gate Pa ... ca. 1864] believed to have been added at a later date. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil, coloured pencil on paper, linen backed, coloured, 19.7 x 21 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-034

Description: View on the southern flank of Maungatautari with soldiers among the long grass, firing towards the pa on the top of the nearby ridge. Two horses are galloping by and there is swampy land or a stream in the foreground. Gunsmoke from hidden Maori can be seen coming from the pa and from the foot of the hill. This was the final battle of the Waikato campaign of the New Zealand wars While many of Hamley's watercolours are copied from those of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, this work may be his own The additional title 'Maori Pah on hill' is in the hand of Anthony Murray-Oliver, a former staff member. Only the title Maungatautari appears on the recto in the hand of the artist Other Titles - Maori Pah on hill Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title - partly erased] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 177 x 247 mm

Date: 1845

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-079-003

Description: Redcoats and Maori in the foreground amongst low scrub, including flax and toetoe. A cleared hill (right) and bush-clad hill in the background.To the left in the middle distance can be seen the palisades of Kapotai Pa, alongside a stream at Waikare Inlet (Bay of Islands) surrounded by soldiers with smoke and flames visible. To the right is a small European house, with a fenced garden, with soldiers in formation in front of it, ordnance, and further soldiers moving up the hill behind it, with puffs of gunfire smoke coming from the hill. Other Titles - Kapotai Pa Inscriptions: No inscriptions on work. Title taken from mat, now discarded. Other mats (from box A-079) which have been retained show a title in ink in the hand of Cyprian Bridge. The mat must also have included the artist's signature, since the catalogue card (from the 1960s?) states that the work is signed and includes square brackets around the date, but not around the title. There is no signature on the work itself Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 176 x 225 mm

Date: 1847

By: Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Marshall, Patrick (Dr), 1869-1950

Reference: C-064-002

Description: Shows plain with small hill in distance. In left half are two parallel ridges from behind which opposing groups of Maori and pakaha are firing on each other. At right is a lake or inlet with 2 canoes at the far end. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - [Title and artist] An almost identical view privately owned. ATL also has monotone wash copy by Herbert Robert Cole, at A-138-013. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 390 x 510 mm.

Date: 1864

By: Florance, Augustus (Dr), 1812-1879

Reference: C-031-001

Description: A battle raging across a river with a tall hill to the right, based on an illustration, (possibly from a drawing supplied by Charles Heaphy), in the Illustrated London News, May 1864, p. 525. The Waiari fight was part of the Waikato-Tauranga campaign of the New Zealand Wars. The Waiari area is now known as Mangapiko Inscriptions: Signed: A Florance Waiari or Mangapiko was the battle at which artist and soldier, Charles Heaphy, won his V. C. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with pen and brown ink 444 x 559 mm (image 325 x 475 mm

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?; Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-438-008

Description: A scene loosely based on Cyprian Bridge's and John Williams' drawings of the battle at Okaihou, showing formations of soldiers in the foreground and a fenced pa (Puketutu Pa) in the middle distance. Other Titles - Attack on Heke's Pa, Okaihau. May 8th 1845 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Black and white engraving on cropped page, 250 x 275 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, July 2010.

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

By: Anderson, Robert Shortried, 1833-1874; New Zealand. Parliamentary Library

Reference: MapColl-832.14hkm/1864/Acc.36888

Description: Hand drawn map, dated 8th. July 1864, of Orakau Pa detailing the position of British troops in the battle and the line of retreat from the pa. Names of regiments and commanding officers are given at various locations approaching the pa, some having the date of 2d. April. An area labelled 'Headquarters, 2 guns' is marked and the military term 'Picquet' locates three places on the map. Includes a plantation, reserve, Ti Tree and Raupo swamps and contour lines. A reference key indicates parapets, banquettes, ditches and whares [sic]. Three plans, inset and with a different scale to the area map, are of the pa with its approach and two cross sectional views, labelled A-B and C-D. Other Titles - Orakau Pa Other Titles - Plan of pa Centre of map: File 11469 is written in faint pencil Top right: PUNIU 1637c/1 is written in watercolour paint Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on card, linen backed, coloured, 68 x 47 cm.

Date: 1864 - 1865

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Calvert, Samuel, 1828-1913

Reference: PUBL-0060

Description: A closely-fought battle between Maori and European soldiers, with earth ramparts between the participants. Extended Title - From Colonial views (London, 1865) Inscriptions: Recto - N. C. (bottom left); Calvert (engraver) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, tinted, 288 x 420 mm

Date: 1860 - 1863 - 1940

From: New Zealand. Internal Affairs Department :Making New Zealand; pictorial surveys of a century. Wellington, Department of Internal Affairs, 1940.

Reference: PUBL-0098-02-24-06-lower

Description: Shows an event of 1860 in which British soldiers are attacking the wooden palisades of a pa on a small hill, with hand-to-hand fighting and rifle-shooting in the foreground. A large flag flies from the palisades. Mount Taranaki is shown in the left distance. From an illustration published in the "Illustrated Melbourne post" 20 October 1863, and possibly the "Illustrated Sydney news". The Waireka pa was attacked in 1860. Drawings & Prints has a file print of the image from the "Illustrated Melbourne post", entitled "Storming the Waireka Pah, Taranaki - from a sketch by our special artist". This file print was supplied by the Mitchell Library, Sydney. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 95 x 120 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: 1868 - 1869

By: Hill, Howard, active 1870s-1880s

Reference: MapColl-832hkm/1868-1869/Acc.5862

Description: Plots the Hauhau campaign and Te Kooti campaign from the New Zealand Wars. Shows central North Island and note reads "Land enclosed by yellow is that of the Maori King, boarded by the 'aukati' no European may cross on pain of death". Military engagements and massacres are identified across the map. Massacres are identified at Matawhero, Ohiwa Harbour, Whitecliffs and Waihi. Engagements are identified at Mohaka, Ngaatape, Puketapu, Turanga and Ahikerera Pa on the East Coast and Whakatane districts, and Rauparoa Pa, Otatau, Otoia, Wairou, Moturoa, Ruapuru and Te Ngutu o te Mana (identified as Tito Kowaru's own place). Shows "Nukumaru Pah taken 2 Feb 69". Orange lines represent Colonel Whitmore campaigns eg Campaign of Ngatapa Dec/Jan 1869 (Poverty Bay area), or Oct/Nov 1868 Whanganui area, April/ May 1869 Bay of Plenty area. Small yellow lines represent the New Zealand war battle campaigns by the ers and the New Zealand government against the Maori, especially those led by Colonel Whitmore eg Col. Whitmore's pursuit of prisoners July August 1868, St John's column Apr-May 1869, or Col. Whitmore Jan, Feb, April, May 1869 from Whanganui to New Plymouth. Shows overland road from Napier to Auckland. Some text on map e.g. "Whareongaonga, where the prisoners from the Chatham Islands landed in July 1860." (This would included Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki.) Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, backed with card, hand coloured, 17.5 x 22 cm.