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Ceremonial event at Ratana Pa

Date: 1969

From: Shadbolt, Maurice Francis Richard, 1932-2004 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8202

Description: Ceremonial event at Ratana Pa. Images show a procession of robed people processing towards the temple, with a band playing. Aerial view of the rift on the summit of Mount Tarawera, 1969. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

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James Beard and Company :Manawatu County. Rangiotu proposed speedway. [Job no. 3108. 19...

Date: 1918 - 1976

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

By: Wylde, Henry James, 1850?-1933

Reference: Plans-2009-082-3108-001/006

Description: Includes survey maps of the area including an 1918 one by H J Wylde, and an undated plan showing Rangiotu Village bounded by State Highway 56 and the Oroua River. The Beard plan shows a layout of the proposed playing field with a speedway around the edge of it, a polo field, school, tennis courts, and the adjacent Hikatoto burial ground and Te Rangimarie Marae on State Highway 56. At the top is a diagram of the sound emanating from the speedway, varying depending on whether or not there is a sound barrier constructed. Quantity: 6 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints and ink drawings on draughting paper, sizes varying up to 595 x 840 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

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Mutton birds and Ratana Pa

Date: 1969-1989

From: Shadbolt, Maurice Francis Richard, 1932-2004 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8200

Description: Unloading supplies from a sailing boat onto the shore of an unidentified location with low coastal hills covered with low growth native forest. This is possibly associated with hunting mutton birds which is the subject of the last 13 images in the sequence. 1989. Ceremonial event at Ratana Pa, 1969. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

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New Zealand Friends and Maungarongo Marae

Date: 1988-1989

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-o-1703

Description: Begins with friends, Christmas 1988, and friends feature throughout the album. Also includes - A group on the lawn in front of Government House, Wellington. Interior views of no.13 Upland Road, Kelburn, Wellington. A trip to Ohakune featuring Maungarongo Marae and Tikarina Ringapoto meeting house. People at the Marae include weavers and a carver as the building was being enlarged and the addition decorated at the time. Other people include Jonathan Dennis, his mother and staff from the National Film archive. They are photographed in a group in front of the meeting house. Also pupils and Jonathan and associates with a group at Ruapehu College. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Jonathan Dennis established the New Zealand Film Archive. One of the projects undertaken by the archive was the restoration of movie films made in the early 1920s during anthropological expeditions to the Whanganui River funded by the Dominion Museum. Jonathan and his staff were in Ohakune to show the newly restored films at Ruapehu College. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Fisher family :Family photographs

Date: [1890s?, 1910s-1920s]

From: Edwards-Sextus, Patricia, active 1999-2019: Collection

By: Fisher family; Edwards-Sextus, Patricia Joyce, active 1999-2019

Reference: PAColl-9635

Description: Collection comprises papers relating to the Fisher family and the history of the Whanganui River. Includes photographs of Parinui and local Maori; Alf Overend with Sisters of Compassion at the baptism of his child Clair (1914/1915) at Jerusalem/Hiruharama Marae in 1914/1915; House and stockade; Pa, whare puni and church at Jerusalem; and grave of Emily A Fisher and Thomas William Fisher. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Mrs Edwards-Sextus, Dannevirke, 2009 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Fisher family: Papers (MS-Papers-9514).

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Memorial, carvings, and paintings

Date: 1973-1979

From: Keyes, Ian Warwick, 1938-2004 :Sites of Maori settlement, Maori artifacts, and marae

Reference: PA12-6851

Description: Painted canoe hull, Virginia Lake, Wanganui, a memorial to Puna McGregor. Owae Whitara Marae and Te Ikaroa a Maui meeting house, Waitara, Taranaki. Maui Pomare statue, Waitara. Turuturumokai Pa, Hawera. Carved and painted panels, Turangawaewae Marae, Ngaruawahia. Paintings of Polynesian voyagers by Hawaiian artist, Herb Kawainui Kane. Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies.

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Holidays, friends and family

Date: 1984-1985

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-f-307

Description: Includes - Event at the Heritage, Mount Cook. This included horses, carts, coaches, early motor vehicles, morris dancers, people in tents, and dinner in the hotel. A plane trip to mountain snow fields. Interior of a neo-gothic church. Friends, family and flower arrangements. Views of the Wellington south coast. Two storied Edwardian houses moved from kelburn Parade to the grounds of Victoria University. Unidentified coastal and other scenic views. Event proably in Mount Cook School, Wellington, that may have something to do with teaching and the Maori language. Event at a marae (this may be Te Ore Ore Marae near Masterton). Group of women meeting in the sitting room of a house. Trip with a Fijian woman. Places include - The Chateau Tongariro and the ski fields on Mount Ruapehu. St Faiths Church and monument, Ohinemutu, Rotorua. The model pa and thermal areas, Whakarewarewa. An exhibition of Maori carving and weaving. Tourist event involving sheep. Lake Tarawera. Waiuru Army Museum. At the Dennis' house in Wellington. Fijian people, November 1984. People on a yacht in Suva Harbour and views of Suva Harbour, November 1984. Toberua Island, and resort facilities on the island. Plants, fruit and flowers, Fiji. Wellington's south coast, hilly farmland, mountains and a sunrise. Baring Head lighthouse. Wellington Harbour and coasts. Wairarapa coast and seals. Michael Dennis and his wife, Wellington, March 1985. Birthday party for Lawrence Dennis, March 1985. New Plymouth Girls High School centennial, Easter 1985. Visit with friends to Picton and the sounds, February 1985. Palliser Bay, April 1985. Hamilton lake and Gleneden, May 1985. Te Kaahui Kohangareo christmas party, December 1985. Visit to the Whanganui River and Matahini Marae, March 1985. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Johnson, Fay :Negatives of images of the Wanganui River

Date: [ca 1970s]

By: Johnson, Fay, active 1975

Reference: PAColl-6668

Description: Three views of the Whanganui River and meeting houses near it including one of Te Rangi Hekiho meeting house at Atene. Photographer unidentified but may be the donor. Three negatives located 11 October 2001. Whereabouts of fourth not known. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-034208 to 034210 Quantity: 3 b&w copy negative(s) 35mm. Physical Description: Film negatives

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Kikopiri Marae, Ohau

Date: 1900

From: Roe, P. A. :Photographs of Horowhenua County and members of the Roe family.

Reference: 1/2-036322-F

Description: Stereographic photograph of European man and woman sitting on the mahau (porch) of the whare runanga (meeting house) on Kikopiri Marae in Ohau, Horowhenua. Photograph taken in 1900 by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Note on back of file print reads: `Kikopiri Marae - Info from Robert Kuiti (manager of marae) 19/5/2000' Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative of stereographic photograph

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Moawhango

Date: [Between 1900 and 1910]

From: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-007372-G

Description: A view of Moawhango, showing the marae at the right, taken ca 1900s by Samuel Head. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

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North Island scenes

Date: circa 1880, 1934 - 1955

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Wade, Keith Reginald, 1920-1992; Dunstan, Harold J, active 1939-1947

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-029

Description: Scenic photographs of the North Island, 1934 to 1955. Includes Manawatu - Wanganui, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Taranaki, Northland and Auckland Regions. Also includes photographs of the first school in Palmerston North and the Bank of Australasia Corner, Palmerston North, circa 1880. Photographers include W. Hall Raine, Keith R. Wade, Harold J. Dunstan, J M S Beale, A W Powell, and aerial photographs by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 77 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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