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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: 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?].