Places

Date: [ca 1909]

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-7992

Description: Negatives of Rotorua, Whakarewarewa, and Taranaki, taken ca 1909 by R G Marsh of Rotorua. Most of the images are of tourists and guides around the hot springs at Whakarewarewa, but there are also several school portraits taken at Okaiawa School and Convent School, Hawera. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-220000-G to 1/2-220068-G Quantity: 69 b&w original negative(s). Provenance: Purchased at auction, Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, 2003

Date: 1940

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to Maori. 1940s].

By: Rotorua morning post (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1940-01

Description: Invitation card and programme, with handwritten name of addressee Hoani Te Heuheu. The front cover shows a photograph of the meeting house and an illustration of the Arawa canoe. Inside are illustrations of Tamatekapua the captain of the Arawa canoe entering the estuary of Maketu in the year 1340, and of Wahiao a celebrated chief of the Arawa people, with a whakapapa showing how he is descended from Tamatekapua. The back cover shows the programme, and a photograph of the late chief Mita Taupopoki. The invitation is issued by Te Aonui Dennan, H Tai Mitchell and the Tuhourangi and Wahiao tribes. Text is in English and Maori. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on pamphlet, folded to 228 x 147 mm.

Date: ca 1900s

By: Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers)

Reference: PAColl-7512

Description: Postcards of Mita Taupopoki of Rotorua seated in a doorway holding a taiaha and wearing a kakahu; Pera Tutoko in a feather cloak holding a carved stick; Hitiri Te Paerata; half-length portrait of Pirohi; three quarter length portrait of Petera Whataiwi holding a patu; head and shouldes portrait of Patara Te Tuhi showing his moko; half-length portrait of Tahi Tahi holding a patu; head and shoulders portrait of Taraia Ngakuti Te Tumuhuia; two of Ngakurapana, a Ngapuhi chief; head and shoulders portrait of Rangiriri of Rotorua (different from the other Rangiriri in this collection); head and shoulders portrait of Taurau Kukupa; three quarter portrait of Mohi Te Puatau with moko holding a carved wooden patu (also identified as Wetani Rore Tatangi); a head and shoulders portrait of Rangiriri; and an unnamed Maori chief with moko. They are all part of the Tanner Brothers Maoriland series of postcards. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-005198, 005199 and 005462 Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: Harris, John, active 1930s

Reference: Eph-C-SHIP-1930s-01

Description: Shows Maori chief Mita Taupopoki in cloak and ornate costume and headdress, with taiata and tiki, standing in front of palisades, carved post, and whare, with snowy peak in distance. At bottom are vignettes of Rotorua's steaming geysers, and of steamship. Identity of the subject confirmed by the February page of a 1933 calendar featuring a colourised photograph of the chief from the NZ Tourist Department. Other Titles - The chief Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Liverpool agents: White Star Line, 30 James St., Liverpool. Glasgow agents: P. Henderson & Co., 95 Bothwell St., Glasgow C.2.; Recto - bottom right - John Harris Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 456 x 303 mm.