Places

Date: [ca 1885]

From: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-020634-G

Description: A photograph of a group at Te Karaka kāinga, facing south towards Te Au a Tāne, taken by Henry Wright circa 1899 to 1910. Rīpeka Te Puni is holding the baby and sitting with Amy Wright under a woven cloak or kaitaka.The two men next to her are thought to be her two brothers Nopera and Atanatiu. The man in the back is Captain William Shilling, Harbour Pilot, and on the right is Amy Wright, daughter of the photographer. People identified from information on page 18 of ‘Motukairangi: Taranaki Whānui kiTe Upoko o Te Ika, Cultural Safety Report’, 2020 https://www.linz.govt.nz/sites/default/files/culturalsafetyaudit_-_motukairangi_-_taranaki_whaanui_cultural_safety_report_2020.pdf. Accessed 13 September 2023. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: Title changed and people identified following information from staff member, 13 September 2023.

Date: 1879

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

By: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936

Reference: 1/4-009027-F

Description: Whare at Karaka Bay, Wellington, in 1879. Photograph taken by Henry Wright. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Stack, James West (Rev), 1835-1919

Reference: A-210-003

Description: Shows tent on beach, groups of Maori with two canoes with sails, boats and ships in the harbour. Probably Wellington Harbour from the Hutt Road or Petone in the 1850s looking towards the twown of Wellington. Attributed to Fox on stylistic grounds, along with A-210-008 and A-210-009. The figures in the foreground and the manner of rendering choppy sea are very typical of Fox's work Displayed in "Paradise" (Gifts to the nation), National Library Gallery, January - April 2005. Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Other Titles - Unidentified view of beach and harbour [former title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 255 mm. Provenance: Collection of James West Stack. Possibly given to Stack by Fox when Stack visited Westoe, Fox's home, late summer 1861. Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts and Archives, from fMS Stack, J. W. Papers and pictures, 1970s.

Date: 1839

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

Reference: PUBL-0011-02-2

Description: Te Puni standing, with full facial moko, clad in a dogskin cloak and holding a taiaha in his right hand. Behind him is Wellington Harbour with two Maori by the shore to the left, and Petone Pa, a canoe and a flagpole with the New Zealand Company flag on the right. The western Hutt hills are in the background. Accompanying text reads: These two chiefs sold the site of the present Wellington Settlement to Colonel Wakefield, the Principal Agent of the New Zealand Company, in September 1839... Epuni is the uncle of Warepori. Under the same unfavourable circumstances as his nephew, he has nobly deserved the name of "a true gentleman." He still lives at the village of Pitone, loved and respected by the English inhabitants of all ranks. These portraits were drawn at the time of the purchase in 1839... the village of Pitone and the flag-staff at the foot of which Colonel Wakefield took formal possession, appear in the back-ground. Other Titles - Te Puni Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 247 x 172 mm on sheet 350 x 544 mm

Date: 1846 - 1951

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962

Reference: A-173-035

Description: The stone Paremata Redoubt, with its two towers, surrounded by a yard with a picket fence. A ship visible in Porirua Harbour in the background and soldiers standing in line to attention, with tents in the distance. By the gate in the foreground, a Maori woman is selling produce to a group of soldiers, while another man with fish in a kete, and a woman with potatoes await their turn. Two civilians watch the proceedings from the right, one smoking a pipe. Drawn from descriptions provided by James Cowan The remains of this fort still stand in the Ngati Toa Domain, at Mana, just north of Porirua City Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Grey wash, 242 x 316 mm

Date: 1910

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-356-013

Description: Shows a raupo hut on the water's edge, with a view of an offshore island (probably Kapiti Island) in the distance. Te Rauparaha died at Otaki in 1849, so the location is likely to be there, with Kapiti Island in the distance. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, impression 134 x 180 mm, on sheet 235 x 282 mm.

Date: 1940

From: Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986 :Collection of prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-036226-F

Description: Unidentified Maori group performing at one of the sound shells during the 1940 Centennial Exhibition in Rongotai, Wellington. Photographed by Eileen Deste in 1940 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1841 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-024-004

Description: Petone with the Eastern Hills in the background, flax bushes and two wind-formed bent trees and two cows in the foreground. In the middle distance is a raupo whare with a conical thatched roof Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 4.5 x 6.5 ins

Date: 17 October 1937

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-f-005-424

Description: Maori gathering the pipi shellfish on the margin of the Manawatu River at Foxton heads. Photographed by George Leslie Adkin on the 17th of October 1937. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10.5 x 6 cm

Date: [c1870]

From: Fisher, Alexander, fl 1861-1879: Album of photographs compiled on cruises aboard HMS Endymion with the Flying Squadron and in the Mediterranean

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA1-f-021-043-1

Description: Photograph of Maori family group outside of a whare-puni (small sleeping house) at Te Ore Ore marae. Photograph taken by James Bragge circa 1865-1875. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom centre - Maori hut, Te Oreore Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1950

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-046153-G

Description: Centenary celebrations at Rangiatea Church in Otaki, photographed in 1950 by Sydney Charles Smith. Shows a crowd of people gathered in front of Raukawa meeting house with the New Zealand flag, the Ngati Kapu flag 'Tainui', and the flag 'Raukawa' flying to the left. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1840 - 1850

By: Marshall, Mary Frederica, 1826-1854; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-187-060-1

Description: A clearing beside a stream with a hill behind. There are large tree-trunks with a raupo whare between them, a Maori man seated outside it. There are flaxes in the right foreground and other trees and shrubs Attribution on grounds of style, and lettering of title; compare A-188-026, signed "M.S." On verso of A-187-060: Swainson, William. Franchiavilla, Sicily. 1808. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 116 x 183 mm

Date: 1863

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :Wairarapa sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-173-052/053

Description: A view of the South Wairarapa coastline from Castlepoint to Te Awaiti, viewed from the sea, showing various areas of sandstone, limestone, mudstones, slate and carbonaceous material, etc, with the names of various properties also marked in their relevant area. Other Titles - Te Awaiti Inscriptions: Recto - title as above but with additional geological information inscribed in the sea area; more detailed geological information written above the outlines of the hills. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 130 x 360 mm

Date: [1900-1920]

From: Topp, Molly :Photographs of Hikurangi College, Wairarapa

Reference: 1/2-092653

Description: Group photograph of school cadets from Hikurangi College. Some of the boys are bearing rifles. Two school masters sit in the front row. Hikurangi College was an Anglican Maori Boys College that stood at Clareville, near Carterton, between 1900 and the 1930s Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: PUBL-0020-07-3

Description: Shows bushclearing along the path which became the Hutt Road. One man chops at a tree trunk with an axe, while two Maori stand in the path. The tranquil water of Wellington Harbour surrounded by bush-covered hills, show in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 191 x 160 mm, on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

From: Brierley, Kathleen Connaught, 1903-1979 :Photographs of New Zealand people and places

Reference: PAColl-0495-01

Description: View of the Tauweru River, Masterton. Whare can be seen in the distance, above the river. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1852 - 1853

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-070-1

Description: A race on the Ruamahanga Plain, South Wairarapa, many Maori spectators and Europeans horse-racing. A European man stands in the right foreground, holding his horse. The plants in the foreground include flax in flower, toe-toe and a small mamaku (tree fern) The original for a wood engraving published in the Illustrated London News, 1853 (Dec. 10). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 100 x 170 mm

Date: 1848

By: Baker, Richard, 1810-1854

Reference: C-014-015

Description: Shows a view across the flowering gardens of Major Baker's house in Thorndon Quay, to Wellington Harbour, Somes Island, Ward Island, the Hutt Valley and the snow-capped Tararuas. The view is from the verandah two of whose posts divide the view. The Kaiwharawhara Hotel and a moored ship at Kaiwharawhara can be seen at the left. A small child in a dress holds picked flowers in his apron and offers some to a Maori man seated with a basket beside a flower bed. A Maori figure in a red cloak stands over the fence at the left, and another carries a load on her back at the right. There are three tall sailing ships in the harbour and three smaller craft including a waka carrying four figures, in the near left portion of the harbour. According to a note on the back of the work, the small child is Baker's eldest son Frederick Arnold Baker, born 30 December 1845. In 1848, Major Baker owned a two-storeyed building at Kaiwharawhara, and this may also be shown in the picture. (See Ward's "Early Wellington", page 150). Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - [Vie]w of Wellington [(Ne]w Zealand) Harbour from Major Richard Baker's verandah, painted by himself about 1848. The child in it was his eldest son Frederick Arnold Baker born 30 December 1845. Baker won prizes for "Bouquet flowers" and turnips, in the Wellington Horticultural Show, 22 January 1842. (See Winsome Shepherd "Wellington's heritage, plants, gardens and landscapes", Wellington 2000, pages 151-153) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 205 x 555 mm.

Date: 1842

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-028

Description: Shows Maori gathering shellfish on the rocky shore. There is a single-sailed canoe in the water at the right, and several canoes are drawn up on the shore around the bay at the left. In a similar work (identical shoreline in the foreground) at C-126-025, and the engraving (Plate 3, illustration 8) in "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand", it is thought that the view is from the Whitireia side, looking northeast towards the entrance to Paremata Harbour. In contrast, this view shows a continuous shoreline at the left, suggesting that it is a view from Mana or Plimmerton, looking south-east towards the narrow entrance to Paremata Harbour. Similar to: Porerua Bay (Porirua), plate 3/8 In: Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand, by S C Brees, London 1847 (but see notes above). Dated because of similarity to a dated work, at C-126-025. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 210 x 342 mm

Date: 1843 - 1844

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :[Two works. 1. Palliser Bay, Wairarapa, &c (with dwelling and figures) [ca 1843]. 2. (On verso) Porirua / Paremata whaling station [1842-1844]]

Reference: C-126-021

Description: Pencil sketch is a preliminary sketch for Plate 12 in "Illustrations to adventure in New Zealand" (1845), "Porirua Harbour and Paramatta whaling station, 1843", showing two food drying platforms in the right foreground, the curve of Porirua Harbour, and the entrance to Paremata Harbour in the right distance. Dated from other views of the same area. Other Titles - Porirua Harbour and Paramatta whaling station Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 227 x 380 mm, on verso of watercolour. Provenance: Sold by McArthur & Company, auction, in 1987, to NZ Insurance, for their boardroom. Prior to that, purchased at an English country auction, 1986 or 1987, by dealer John Barkis (pers. comm. Brian Groshinski of McArthur's Auction, 14. 8. 98)