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Date: 1860s-1949

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Johnston, Owen, active 1940-1987; New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: PA1-o-1038

Description: Contains photographs of a Maori group at Wanganui, Te Rangitahau of Waitahanui, inscription at Wairaka meeting house (Whakatane), Pohaturoa Rock (Whakatane), Tainui anchor stone at Mokau, Matahourua anchor stone at Dominion Museum, Tokomaru anchor stone at New Plymouth Museum, hui at Rangitukua (March 1945), Ngarimu hui at Ruatoria (1943), hui at Hiruharama (1945), Tahi hohepa at Otukou (1947), reception to Field-Marshall Montgomery at Ohinemutu (1947), Sir Apirana Ngata speaking at erection of Porourangi meeting house (Waiomatatini), scenes in Parihaka, and Sir Peter Buck at Te Araroa (March 1949). The photographers represented are W J Harding, A P Godber, Burton Brothers, Owen Johnston, and the New Zealand Railways Publicity Department. A number of images were provided by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Graphic drawing book 23 x 31 cm

Date: 1971

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Pictorial Publications Ltd

Reference: C-028-031/033

Description: Contents: Barraud, C D. The White Terraces, ca 1880; Blomfield, C Ohinemutu Village, Lake Rotorua, 1882; Barraud, C D Lake Taupo with Mounts Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu, 1874 Issued with text sheet, Prints of the Thermal Regions Ohinemutu Village, Lake Rotorua is taken from the original held at G-459: Roto Rua from Maroi [sic] Village of Ohinimutu [sic]... Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithgraphs, 304 x 430 mm ; 250 x 429 mm ; 262 x 430 mm on sheets 431 x 557 mm in illus. folder

By: Preston, G M (Miss), active 1982; Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Gordon, William Francis Robert, 1846-1936

Reference: PA1-o-423

Description: Carte-de-visite sized Maori portraits. A number of the portraits have been identified. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black card cover, embossed with flower pattern; 23.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: 1868

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-o-094

Description: Views of New Zealand chiefly taken by Daniel Mundy circa 1868, with some taken by Charles S Spencer. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Decorated tan coloured cover "Scraps", 25.5 x 33 cm Provenance: Alexander Turnbull Library donation slip on front page reads: "Scrapbook of old photos collected by Mr Mundy about 1868."

Date: [1880s-1900s?]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Iles, James, active 1878; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-518

Description: Includes photographs of Maori artefacts in museum context. Possibly created by James Edge-Partington, an anthropologist who studied artefacts in New Zealand and the Pacific. This volume is in the same style of album, with similar photographs and articles as Webster album 4 (PA1-o-519) which has Edge-Partington's named bookplate inside the front cover. Studies of a variety of artefacts including an instrument giving a decoy call for kiwi; a sea leopard's tooth carved and worn as a pendant (from Stewart Island); whale teeth pendants; weapons; tools; carved waka, prows of waka; carved meeting houses; Te Kooti's house "Te Waho"; carved storehouses; a Maori kite; eel traps and fish hooks. The artefacts are from various collections in New Zealand and overseas, including the Chapman Collection, the Hamilton Collection, the Hocken Collection and General Robley's Collection. Cuttings from articles written by James Edge-Partington from anthropological journals are inserted in the album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Abum with dark grey cover; 26 x 21 cm

Date: 1940 - 1942

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: E-302-q-4

Description: Kowhaiwhai patterns from a range of named sources, including Ohinemutu, Te Kuiti, Te Puke, Murupara, Putiki, Ohau, Rotorua, Ruatoria, Rotorua, Tokaanu. The first page is Godber's own ' Suggested design for a memorial archway at a bridge", using kowhaiwhai patterns for decoration. Presumed to have been done from 1940 to 1942. The first image is dated 23.7.40 and the last is dated 25.5.42 Quantity: 33 watercolour(s) on 11 pages. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 248 x 310 mm in sketchbook

Date: [1903-1920]

By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0362

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1884 - 1886

By: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922; Harper, Laura, 1833-1887; Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975

Reference: E-377

Description: Contains sketches from a visit to Rotorua 1884 to 1886. Also includes sketches of Lake Tarawera, Ohinemutu, Green Lake, Blue Lake, Wairoa, Picton, Auckland, Mount Egmont. Also contains some sketches possibly by Laura Harper. Mount Tarawera erupted in 1886. Inscriptions: Pages are numbered at top left, and title is given below image. See shelf list for details of works attributed to Laura Harper.(Nos. 10,19,20,27,36,37,39-43,45,50.) Laura (Taylor) Harper was a sister of Mary Catherine (Taylor) Medley, and died in 1887. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 29 pencil, and 20 pencil & watercolour works, in sketchbook 135 x 220 mm.

Date: 1900

By: Franklyn, F, active 1890-93

Reference: A-141-010/031

Description: Drawings of scenic New Zealand, probably the work of a tourist. The date ca 1900 is suggested from the absence of views of the Pink and White Terraces. Other major tourist spots have been recorded, but not the Terraces, suggesting the artist visited after 1886 , when the Terraces were destroyed Supplied title. Quantity: 22 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 128 x 250 mm or smaller Processing information: Disbound from original sketchbook [[18] leaves ; 230 x 280 mm), inscribed: F Franklyn. See shelf list for individual titles

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: E-302-q-7

Description: Kowhaiwhai patterns from a range of named sources, including Maunga-Pohatu, Whakarewarewa, Porirua, Rotorua, Wairoa, Ohinemutu, Uenuku-Mai-Rarotonga, Te Puke, Otukou. Quantity: 24 watercolour(s) on 8 pages. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 248 x 310 mm in sketchbook

Date: [188-?]

By: Seaton, Mary, 1889-1967

Reference: PA1-o-460

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand (pages 1-10), Australia, Egypt, Europe and Canada taken by unidentified photographers circa 1880s. The New Zealand scenes are mostly in the South Island, including the Bealey, Cheviot Hills Station, the flying fox across the Teremakau [i.e. Taramakau] River, the Canterbury Plains, Governor's Bay and Timaru. One view shows two men in a logging camp; two views of the North Island show Muemutu [i.e. Ohinemutu], and Russell's Gold Battery at Taruru Creek. Australian scenes include a group of New Caledonian Kanaka with their "humpies" (thatched dwellings) at Bundaberg in Queensland; and one of the Wombat Ranges "the haunt of the Kelly gang". Several photographs of Egypt include views of Port Said, the Suez Canal, camels, Egyptians, and early ruins. Canadian images include Port Levis taken from across the St Lawrence River, and views of the Niagara and Montmorency Falls both in summer and in winter. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured dark blue cover, black corners an spine, entitled "Scrapbook" on spine; 23.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: Mar 1963 or 1964

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Wilson, Arthur, 1868-

Reference: OHInt-0470/21

Description: Arthur Wilson was born in Auckland in 1868. Describes how his father, a builder by trade, went to Rotorua in 1872. Recalls being educated in an old whare on the side of Pukeroa Hill overlooking Ohinemutu. Talks about some of his fellow pupils. Mentions the Morrisons who ran the Rotorua Hotel and Dr Hope Lewis who owned the first home in Rotorua. Describes the stores at Ohinemutu which belonged to Thomas Wrigley, Harry Taylor, William Kelly and Charley and Willie Rogers. Describes how the Post Office and police station were built on the government reserve. Describes some schooling at Te Wairoa with Mr Haszard and at Tauranga District High School in 1883. Talks about his brothers and sisters Mary Jane, Kate, Eliza, William, Millie and Ellen Hinemoa. Mentions that William lived only a week and Ellen Hinemoa died at the age of two from falling into a hogshead of boiling water. Describes the boats that crossed Lake Tarawera and Harry Taylor's boats. Mentions Mokoia Island. Recalls Bishop Bennett at the mission at Te Mu, Te Wairoa. Mentions Ngati Hinemihi and Tuhourangi at Te Wairoa. Talks about the family owning the Terrace Hotel which had to be in the name of the brother in law, William Menzies. Mentions Arikatara's pa and Taumataherea Pa, Hiwawa and the Maori policeman Hare Takerei and Kiwi Amohau. Talks about Maori settlements Galatea, Whakarewarewa, Rotoiti, Taheke, Rotoma, Rotoehu and Awahou. Recalls veterinary surgeon Fred Allom; surveyors Bigham, Dalton, Stubbs, Harding and Alf and Charlie Clayton; school teacher Mr Webber; Mr Dansey the postmaster; Captain Gilbert Mair and Father Reignier and Dr Stewart, the Bishop of Waiapu. Talks about the cemetery and people buried there. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2870. Search dates: 1963 - 1964

Date: 15 May 1991

From: Maori Women's Welfare League: Interviews

By: Harris, Witarina Te Miriarangi Parewahaika, 1906-2007; Szaszy, Mira, 1921-2001

Reference: OHInt-0602-47

Description: Witarina Harris nee Mitchell born 1906 in Ohinemutu, Rotorua. Mentions being raised by her grandfather and refers to parents Nataria Rotohiko Haupapa and Niramona Zealand Mitchell, Ngati Whakaue hapu, Te Arawa waka. Mentions Tarewa, Taharangi, Te Papaiouru, Tamatekapua. Discusses the importance of living on the marae as a child and exposure to all things Maori. Talks about the arrival of Christianity in Rotorua and Ngati Whakaue choosing to belong to the Catholic Church or Church of England. Mentions attending Convent school in Rotorua and work after leaving school. Recalls working as a typist for Mr Hamilton at the first Maori Arts and Crafts Institute. Describes being recruited in 1928 to star in the film 'Under the Southern Cross' - explains involvement of Apirana Ngata and recalls later becoming Ngata's typist for 3 years. Refers to 1932 marriage to Reg Harris and talks about their children. Discusses living in a pakeha world in Wellington and the importance of joining the Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club. Mentions Mother's Union. Talks about joining the Ngati Poneke branch of the Maori Women's Welfare League in 1951. Describes branch activities including 'progress days'. Discusses the effects of urban migration on Maori - the diminishing use of the Maori language and the changing role of the League in supporting families. Compares traditional Maori life with the lives of young Maori in modern times. Mentions belonging to Awhina Whanau with Hine Potaka. Discusses the role of faith in her life. Describes meeting Jonathan Dennis in 1982 and becoming kaumatua of the New Zealand Film Archive. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006201; OHLC-004891 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 55 Minutes Duration.

Date: 26 March 1995 - 23 Mar 1995

From: Sound recordings about Ngati Poneke

By: Harris, Witarina Te Miriarangi Parewahaika, 1906-2007; Dennis, Jonathan Spencer, 1953-2002

Reference: OHInt-0600-07

Description: Witarina Harris was born at Ohinemutu, Rotorua in 1906. Talks about whanau, mother Matareia (Ngati Whakaue rangatira), mother's father Rautoko Haupapa, father James Whelan Mitchell, grandfather Henry Walter Mitchell and father's mother Whakarato. Talks about returning to family marae with Ngati Poneke and upsetting her family by staying on the tauiwi side with Ngati Poneke instead of on her family's side. Mentions two families hospitable to young Maori in Wellington, the Ngahanas and the Irihateras. Mentions collecting kaimoana from different Wellington bays, and cooking paua. Talks about Wellington's Granny Raukara. Mentions brothers and sisters, many of whom died young from whooping cough. Talks about growing up with her grandparents. Mentions getting the cane at her convent school for speaking Maori, and then being caned again on returning home as punishment. Mentions that children were not involved in important occasions at the Ngati Whakaue marae. Interviewer(s) - Jonathon Dennis Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s) only. 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3658; MSDL-0153 (file Witarina.doc). Search dates: 1920 - 1950

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: E-302-q-9

Description: Kowhaiwhai patterns from a range of named sources, including Ohinemutu, Te Puke, Murupara, Tikitiki, Ngaruawahia, Rotoiti, Arawa, Te Ore Ore Some of these patterns may be of earlier drawings. The numbers repeat numbers in the main sketchbooks and are in random order. Quantity: 12 watercolour(s) on 6 pages. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 137 x 305 mm in sketchbook

Date: [Circa 1870s and 1880s]

From: Nairn, Douglas, fl 1973 :Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji

By: (W N) Tuttle & Company; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Hart, Campbell & Company; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland)

Reference: PA1-o-359

Description: Photographs of New Zealand, taken by various photographers. Some are unidentified, but many are taken by the Burton Brothers, J V (James Valentine), Tuttle & Co, for Simpson & Co., and Hart, Campbell & Co. In the North Island, a large number of photographs show the area around Mount Tarawera before and after the volcanic eruption in 1886. There are a number showing the huge deposits of mud and ash which covered the area, with views of the landscape and of ruined buildings, followed by scenes of the Pink and White Terraces, before the eruption. On page 8, there is a view of Ranana (London), on the Wanganui River with the caption, "Maori village similar to those overwhelmed by the eruption". Other scenes in the North Island were taken in Auckland City, Ohinemutu, Rotokakahi, and Whakarewarewa, Ti Eke [i.e. Tieke] on the Wanganui River, and one of Wellington City taken from Mount Victoria. South Island views include many around the main lakes, including Wakatipu, Wanaka, Manapouri, Queenstown and Hawea; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; the Otira Gorge; Kawarau Gorge and Bridge; Oamaru; Port Chalmers; and Dunedin. Views of gold mining areas in Otago include excavation sluiced out by hydrants at St Bathans, and the miners' towns of Naseby with the river choked with tailings, and Nokomai. Portraits of Maori including Ana Rupene. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with marron leather binding covered with waxed brown-paper cover, entitled `New Zealand photographs, [E?] Nairn'; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1886 - 1887

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Ten watercolours and one drawing including scenes after the Tarawera eruption. 1881-1887].

Reference: A-355-014

Description: Includes an still life arrangement of greenstone ornaments on a dog hair mat; and a view of a lake shore. Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolours on sheet, 228 x 292 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2002.

Date: 1900 - 1920

From: Bathgate, Alexander William, 1881-1961 :Collection of photographic prints, negatives and lantern slides

Reference: PAColl-3001-02

Description: Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [Circa 1880s-1890s]

By: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942; Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897

Reference: PA1-f-012

Description: Album of fine sepia views taken by various photographers. They show views of Australia, including Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney (panorama taken by Charles Bayliss), Hobart. Views of New Zealand, including Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, Dunedin, Port Chalmers & Lyttelton; Auckland; Ohinemutu, including a Maori meeting house, head and shoulder portraits of Maori, showing moko, and views of Lake Rotomahana with the Pink and White Terraces. Two views of Honolulu life show Princess Ruth and her house. One view of San Francisco, one of the Sandwich Islands. There are several views of a railway line winding through the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas, in the Rocky Mountains, taken by W H Jackson in 1880. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album 470 x 360 mm, lacking covers, in phase box Provenance: Creator and provenance information not known