Places

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-057/058

Description: Small Maori whare, made of raupo rushes Ms annotation in ink : Marched to Rangawhia from Te Rore during the night of 19 February 1864. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil, 100 x 160 mm

Date: [between 1880 and 1887]

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

Reference: 1/1-001496-G

Description: Hohua Ahowhenua inside the Te Wai o Turongo meeting house at Waharoa, near Matamata. Photograph taken, probably between 1880 and 1887, by Hemus & Hanna. This portrait, according to Mona Gordon in "The golden age of Josiah Clifton Firth" (p 193), was commissioned by Josiah Clifton Firth, a long-time friend of Hohua. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1899

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-266

Description: Possibly Otaki Pa. Unfinished sketch, with colours to be added indicated in pencil. Shows three Maori buildings including a wharenui. Washing hangs on a line between two poles. On the verso is a sketchy drawing of Kakaramea-Tihia Massif, a dormant volcano in Tongariro National Park. Colours intended for inclusion are indicated in pencil, with the finished look having 'distant hills, warm lights [and] blue shadows' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch on paper, 168 x 208 mm

Date: [Between 1880 and 1887]

Reference: 1/2-018166-F

Description: Group of Ngāti Hauā Māori, outside Te Wai O Turongo meeting house, near Matamata. Hohua Ahowhenua is seated in the centre, with staff. Photograph taken by either Charles Hemus or John Robert Hanna, circa 1880s. Note that 1/1-001887 (and its copy neg 1/2-041315) is very similar photograph belonging to the Schmidt Collection, therefore, if they are dated circa 1870s, they would have been taken by either John Robert Hanna or Charles Hemus. This photograph is part of a sequence which includes a portrait of Hohua Ahowhenua which was commissioned by Josiah Clifton Firth. The original negatives for these images, which are now part of the Alexander Turnbull Library collections, are dry plates, which would indicate that they were taken after 1880, but before Firth's departure from his Matamata estate in July 1887. In "Nation making" (pp260-261), Firth states that after his own departure, Hohua was abandoned in the Runanga house by his people. This photograph would appear to have been taken before this. The negatives form part of the collection of Auckland photographer Herman Schmidt. Schmidt in 1904 took over the studio of Hemus & Hanna, who are therefore most likely to have taken the images. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: ca 1900

Reference: 1/1-000642-F

Description: Exterior frontal view of of Rahurahu meeting house in the village of Te Hapuia, Orakei Korako valley, circa 1900. Photographer unidentified. The same image is also at 1/1-022998 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - [230?] Carved house Orakeikorako Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [between 1880 and 1887]

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

Reference: PAColl-3059-1-01

Description: Hohua Ahowhenua inside the Te Wai o Turongo meeting house at Waharoa, near Matamata. Photograph taken, probably between 1880 and 1887, by Hemus & Hanna. This portrait, according to Mona Gordon in "The golden age of Josiah Clifton Firth" (p 193), was commissioned by Josiah Clifton Firth, a long-time friend of Hohua. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.6 x 20.2 cm

Date: [ca 1887-1889]

From: Birnie, J W: Photographs taken in Taupo including the Spa Hotel

Reference: 1/2-028367-F

Description: Unidentified man with John Joshua, Sophia Joshua and others outside the wharenui Te Tiki o Tamamutu, taken by an unknown photographer between August 1887 and December 1889. Back row left to right: Hohepa Tamamutu; John Joshua; Mrs Kemp (Sophia Joshua's mother); Sophia Joshua. Front: Midge Joshua (born Louise Martha Salter, adopted daughter of John & Sophia Joshua) Date, and names of wharenui and individuals supplied by a researcher. This meeting house was later to become the dining room of the Joshua's Spa Hotel. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).