Places

Date: ca 7 January 1903

From: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-0477-02

Description: Ao Atama, known as 'Kutu', (left foreground, holding a toki pou tangata (ceremonial Maori adze)), Hekerangi (right foreground, holding a patu), and others outside Te Whai-a-te Motu meeting house at Mataatua Marae in Ruatahuna. They are seated next to a carved figure on the meeting house porch pole. Both men wear kahu huruhuru (Maori feather cloaks). Photograph taken for the New Zealand Government Tourist Department circa 7 January 1903. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - New Zealand Government Tourist Department. Protected. No 1191. 7.1.03. [These words are set around a coat of arms] Physical Description: Original photographic print

From: Wall, John Reginald, 1870?-1944 :Photographs

Reference: 1/1-013063-G

Description: 10927 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1906

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 :Collection of photographs

Reference: 1/2-005558-F

Description: Hori Pukehika using a Maori adze, or toki, on a wood carving at Christchurch Pa. The carving was probably for the model pa erected for the New Zealand International Exhibition in Christchurch 1906-7. Photograph taken in 1906. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1844 - 1908

From: McCormick, Arthur David 1860-1943 :[Illustrations from "New Zealand; romance of empire", by Reginald Horsley...with twelve reproductions in colour from drawings by A.D. McCormick, R.I. London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1908].

By: McCormick, Arthur David, 1860-1943

Reference: A-004-037

Description: Shows Heke at the top left, wielding an axe. The flagpole is at the centre, and another figure holds the British flag which has been lowered. A group of armed Maori watch from the right foreground. Extended Title - From Horsely, Reginald. New Zealand. Romance of Empire. London, 1908. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 155 x 115 mm image size, support 203 x 136 mm.

Date: 12 April 1931

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

Reference: PA1-f-009-172

Description: Three types of stone adze, in the possession of Mr R A Prouse, Levin. Specimen on left: splay, broad-edged shape, from Turakina. Length 4 inches, breadth 2.75 inches, cutting edge 2.75 inches, breadth of butt 1.75 to 2 inches, thickness 1 inch, colour black with faint mottlings. Specimen in centre: from Mr J Hill's run, Hokio Beach Road, Levin. Rudely chipped except close to cutting edge; triangular cross-section; length 5.75 inches, breadth 2 inches, cutting edge 2 inches, thickness 1.25 inches; of black, cherty, fine-grained greywacke or indurated argillite. Specimen on right: from R A Prouse's garden, Makomako Road East, Weraroa. Fine cutting edge and well-ground bevels meeting at a rather obtuse angle; cutting edge narrows in; length 6.375 inches, breadth 1.625, cutting edge 1.125 inches, butt 2.25 inches long & breadth from 1 to 1.25 inches, thickness 1.75 inches; of light green chertose rock with patches of black carbonaceous argillite (almost certainly from Tararua range). (Source of information: original album caption). Photograph taken 12 April 1931 by G L Adkin. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Three types of stone adze, in possession of Mr R A Prouse, Levin.... 12.4.31 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 93 x 156 mm mounted on album page

Date: [Between 1880 and 1900]

From: Carnell, Samuel 1832-1920 :Maori portrait negatives

Reference: 1/1-019386-G

Description: Two toki (Maori adzes) from the collection of Augustus Hamilton in the Hawkes Bay Philosophical Society, Napier. Photograph taken, probably in the 1890s, by Samuel Carnell of Napier. Identified by comparison with 1/1-025852-G. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-066

Description: Rough sketch of Lake Wainono looking across to distant hills, marked, on the left 'To Morokura', and on the right [two illegible words, possibly Taramea and Tikurua] then 'Waihau' [i. e. Waihao River]. Along the edge of the page is a series of 5 comic views of Malmanche, Wills and Mantell or Hughes, attempting to cross a river in a mokihi or reed canoe, which sinks with the weight of the three men. A makeshift paddle is also shown, along with the axe lost in the failed attempt to use the canoe. Wainono Lagoon is on the coastal plain between the Hook and Waihao Rivers, Waimate District, South Canterbury Other Titles - Mokihi crossing the river Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1844 - 1847

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

By: Giles, John West, 1801-1870; Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: PUBL-0014-58

Description: A group of pictures with accompanying text as follows: 1.[Top centre] A richly carved adze with a greenstone head, ornamented with dogs' hair and kaka feathers; from the Middle [South] Island. 2. [Top left]. Tomahawk with a European head and a handle of carved bone. 3. [Top right] Tomahawk belonging to Pomara, the Chatham Island chief. 4. [Top right] A wooden dagger. From the interior, near Tuhua. 5, 6 & 7. [Far left]: E Hani - a staff of hard wood [taiaha]...The head is carved. 8. [Lower right] Patu. 9. Warriors preparing for battle [including thigh and buttock tattooing]No.s 10-14 not annotated, but they show 2 mere, a detail of a war-gong, a club and the striking of the war-gong. This final image is derived from a drawing by Joseph Jenner Merrett, as is the view of the warriors preparing for battle. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Angas' preliminary drawing for no. 10 is located at A-020-034 with title 'Meri-meri [i. e. mere] of Taupo'. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm

Date: [ca 1905]

From: Brooke-Taylor, Arthur Howard, 1900-1975:Photographs of Mataatua, Gisborne and Atiamuri

By: Neale, William Augustus, 1852?-1930

Reference: PAColl-1767-2

Description: Group on the step of Te Whai-a-te-Motu meeting house at Mataatua. From left to right: Hurae Puketapu, Te Kopa and her husband Te Huatahi. Shows them standing in front of carved wooden poupou. They each wear cloaks, and feathers in their hair. Puketapu holds a taiaha (spear). Te Kopa holds a toki (adze). Te Huatahi is wielding a patu (club). Photograph taken circa 1905 by W A Neale. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10.6 x 14.1 cm

Date: 1825 - 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854

Reference: C-082-085

Description: A Maori greenstone axe with carved wooden handle, a greenstone patu, a shark's tooth earring, a carved wooden flute and a large bone and flax-bound fish-hook. The text in French beside the earring continues 'et a laquelle ils attachent les idees les plus superstitieuses, les femmes l'en servent pour se dechirer le visage dans leurs ceremonies de deuil" (Translation: and to which they attach the most superstitious ideas, the women use them to cut their faces in their mourning ceremonies). The text alongside the flute marks "A. Ouverture. B. tres petit trou" (Translation: A. aperture. B. Very small hole [at the end of the flute]). Likely to have been drawn by Chazal from specimens brought back to France from Duperrey's visit to the Bay of Islands in 1824. Other Titles - New Zealand. Toki (axe). Patu patu. Marine fish tooth which the New Zealanders wear hanging from their ear. Native fish hook. Inscriptions: Recto - ink inscriptions beside each item Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 303 x 228 mm

Date: [between 1800 and 1845]

By: Vosseler, Frederick William, 1878-1959; Hongi Hika, 1772-1828; Heke Pōkai, Hōne Wiremu, -1850

Reference: Objects-0558

Description: Maker not identified. The pātītī (axe) wooden handle has a hole for string attachment at the end opposite the head. Conflicting provenance information supplied by Tony Murray-Oliver suggests the axe was associated with Hone Heke at Kororareka. Label on the handle has now gone, but according to the photograph of the object, this label read: "Axe belonging to Hongi. Presented by F W Vosseler, Wellington. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 object(s). Physical Description: Axe with wooden handle 405 x 35 x 22 mm, and iron head 160 x 100 x 30 mm. Processing information: Description edited as part of Curios and Objects survey, 2022. Previous reference: Curios-028-034. Previous title: Maker unknown :[Axe or tomahawk said to have belonged to Hongi Hika. 1840s?].