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Fox, William (Sir), :Rakawakaputa, Port Cooper Plains, 1848. [Postcard]. Reproduced fro...

Date: 1848 - 1965 - 1978

From: [Various artists] :Postcards of reproductions of original watercolours in the Hocken Library, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ. [1970s]

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: E-278-q-070

Description: Reproduction of Fox's original watercolour depicting the native storehouse at the Maori village, Te Rakawakaputa Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 95 x 152 mm

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[Merrett, Joseph Jenner] 1815-1854 :Wairewarewa. Kainga at the edge of the Totara fores...

Date: 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-001

Description: Pataka in foreground with two Maori seated alongside; palisaded village beyond with totara forest in background. Attributed to Cuthbert Clarke by staff of the Turnbull, 1970s, but appears to be work of J. J. Merrett. Merrett's handwriting below work Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of sepia ink and wash drawing 8.3 x 12.8 inches

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McEwen, John Malcolm, 1915-2010 :Opotiki pataka. Main figures on central slab are embra...

Date: 1940 - 1990

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: E-574-005

Description: Designs of carving of an Opotiki pataka showing a frontal view of a male figure Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchpad, 200 x 123 mm.

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Harding, William Guy, 1883-1978 :View across Roto Aira to Ngauruhoe and Tongariro. 1926

Date: 1926

By: Harding, William Guy, 1883-1978

Reference: A-108-019

Description: A cabbage tree left foreground, the remains of a patuka (food-storage platform) lacking its thatching, on the right, flat land and Lake Rotoaira, with Ngaurhoe and Tongariro, the later erupting, in the background A-108-016 to -020 appear to be originals for book illustrations Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - H Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 76 x 139 mm Provenance: Unknown

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Webster album 9

Date: [Circa 1890s]

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

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919

Reference: PA1-o-520

Description: Album of tourist views of New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic Islands, chiefly taken by John Richard Morris, Jnr, circa 1890s. Places and subjects listed above where identified. The Sub-Antarctic Island views are all of native flora and fauna of the different islands, listed on the images as mollymawks, albatrosses, sea lions, crested penguins and erect-crested penguins On page 32 there is a view of the SS Knight Templar leaving Lyttelton on February 17, 1900, taking about 260 soldiers and 300 horses of the 3rd Contingent "the New Zealand Roughriders" to Durban, en route to fight in the South African War. The wharf is crowded with people seeing the ship off, soldiers lined up alongside the ship, and bunting flying on two ships nearby. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

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[Taylor, Richard] 1805-1873 :Food stores in Horowhenua Lake / W. Willis [engraver, Lond...

Date: 1870

By: Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873

Reference: A-259-011

Description: Several pataka (food storage houses on poles) in and on the banks of Lake Horowhenua. A man is using a ladder in a canoe to climb to one storehouse. A group of four Maori seated and standing by a flax bush in the right foreground. A pig sleeping in the centre foreground Reproduced in Taylor's Ika a Maui (London, 1870). Based on a drawing in Taylor's sketchbook 'Horowenua' E-296-q-043 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 130 x 207 mm

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Earle, Augustus, 1793-1838 :A tabooed store house in New Zealand. Drawn by A. Earle. En...

Date: May 1832

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, 1890

By: Earle, Augustus, 1793-1838

Reference: A-274-011

Description: A carved pataka supported by two poles, one with a carved figure at its base. A Maori man with a weapon is standing nearby and a curved bay with hills, probably the Bay of Islands, can be seen in the background Page removed from Narrative of a nine months residence in New Zealand by Augustus Earle (London, Longman, 1832). Opposite page 20 Sepia aquatint Ellis number 243 Other Titles - Tabued, tapued Earle was in New Zealand for six months, 1827-1828, mostly in the Bay of Islands Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, on sheet 219 x 139 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

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Stafford, Donald Murray, 1927- :Whakarewarewa. Rotorua, Thermalart Productions [1975]

Date: 1975

By: Stafford, Donald Murray, 1927-2010; Thermalart Productions

Reference: A-242-015/017

Description: Contents: Carved gateway. - Village storehouse, storehouse. - War memorial gate. All are copies of nineteenth century images of Maori and European constructions Quantity: 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, 202 x 254 mm and 254 x 202 mm in envelope, on buff coloured paper.

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Medley, Mary Catherine (Taylor), 1835-1922 :[Wharenui and pataka, Papawai, Greytown? ca...

Date: 1897 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-008

Description: Shows a marae with trees in the background. A carved whare to the left, a pataka or storehouse to the right. Possibly Papawai Marae, Greytown Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

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Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Road from Rotu Aira; store houses in pumice and tufa...

Date: 1862 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-043

Description: Shows a village at Tokaanu, Taupo, where some of the storehouses are cut into the cliffs with rectangular openings. There are also huts and storehouses on top of the cliff. Labelled features are: the Kaimanawa Range (far left), Pihanga moutain (centre distance) and Herekiekie's grave in the far right background. A road cuts through a gorge at the far left, and there are talls grasses in the left foreground. Other Titles - Rotoaira Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], page [43 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 145 x 235 mm

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[Halcombe, Edith Stanway (Swainson)] 1844-1903 :[Tree Fern with figure] March 1859

Date: 1859

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903; Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-188-024

Description: A Maori man seated at the foot of a tree fern in a forest. There is a food storage platform to the right Probably copied from a very similar drawing by William Swainson, Edith Halcombe's father. The artist would have been only 15 at the time this was drawn and is known to have copied her father's work when young. Her preliminary study for this drawing [Tree fern], ref. no. A-188-021-1 is annotated 'Copied from Papas' Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed and dated: E S Swainson March 1859 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Black conte crayon on tinted paper 202 x 136 mm

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Medley, Mary Catherine (Taylor), 1835-1922 :[Lake Papaitonga with Te Takinga pataka. Be...

Date: 1896 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-048

Description: Looking south-west across Lake Papaitonga towards Te Takinga pataka on the property of Walter Buller. The snow-clad Tararua Range is in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

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McEwen, John Malcolm, 1915-2010 :Pataka E-100-79, Rotoiti. Main fig. over door [ca 1950...

Date: 1940 - 1990

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: E-574-016

Description: Details of a carved human figure, from a pataka or storehouse from Rotoiti Other Titles - figure Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchpad, 200 x 123 mm.

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[Earle, Augustus] 1793-1838 :Whakatama (dance). [From John White's Ancient history of t...

Date: 1832 - 1890 - 1827 - 1891 - 1828

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, 1890

By: Earle, Augustus, 1793-1838

Reference: A-274-028

Description: A group of men and two women performing a haka in front of a seated audience of Maori. A carved pataka (food store) is on the right, and two whare and a raised food platform in a tree can be seen in the background A redrawn copy of an aquatint with title A dance of New Zealanders from Narrative of a nine months residence in New Zealand by Augustus Earle (London, Longman, 1832). Opposite p 70 Other Titles - A dance of New Zealanders, 1827 or 1828. Earle was in New Zealand for six months, 1827-1828, mostly in the Bay of Islands Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, on sheet 222 x 288 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

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Webster album 3

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

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Rowntree, W W photograph album

Date: [ca 1903]

By: Rowntree, William Walter, 1873?-1945; Rowntree, John Burgess, 1906-1986

Reference: PA1-o-442

Description: Album of photographs taken by W W Rowntree. They cover a journey between Wairoa and Taupo, travelling on foot with a packhorse, and with two companions between Taihape and Wairoa. The album includes two envelopes with loose photographs, one contains one photograph of a Maori family seated on the ground in front of a thatched building, and the other contains four photographs entitled "Waikaremoana" in pencil on the envelope. Three of these show groups of Maori, and one shows the lake. A handwritten slip inserted in the front of the album gives the following information: "The exact location of Maori homes not known. Note storehouse in actual use; totara bark (?); thatch (in loose photo); Mokau Falls; track at Hopuruahine Bluffs; men's dress (one man wearing a waistcoat with fob watch chain, p 16); Maori boy holding a camera; Earthquake Gully; a road around a lake; Crow's Nest Geyser etc" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, embossed title which reads `Photographs'; 16 x 18 cm Provenance: Donated by John Rowntree, Auckland

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McIntosh album 16

Date: [Circa 1900 to 1905]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-300

Description: Photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, between 1900 and 1905. The images follow on from McIntosh album 15, (these are pages 815-835) starting at Opunake (a church building). Pihama (a memorial to members of the crew of the barque Lizzie Bell which was wrecked off Oeo, 24th July 1901), a view of the Oeo Hotel (F. Morgan, proprietor), and a view of the mast of the Lizzie Bell standing as a memorial at Pihama. These are followed by a panorama of Parihaka (p. 822-823), and a portrait of a man named Ruru, at Parihaka. The rest of the album has scenes in the Auckland area, including a view of Queen Street in which the chemist shop of Charles J Ratgen is clearly visible. A series of images show various Maori artifacts on display at the Auckland Museum. Scenery in Auckland includes the Auckland Domain, Epsom, Tamaki, Auckland Harbour, Rangitoto, St Heliers, Mount Hobson and Mount Eden. Two church buildings are seen, one at Opunake, and the remains of a stone church at Tamaki. A group of photographs show horse-drawn carriages decorated with flowers for a floral fete (p 835-838). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, entitled `Photographic views'; 20.5 x 17.5 cm

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C S Curtis Collection : Photographs of Maori carving

Date: ca 1930s

Reference: PAColl-7560

Description: Photographs of carvings: a koruru carved by J McEwen for his summer house; pare at Tokomaru; pataka carved by Te Ngaru of Rotorua and renovated by J McEwen; three carved figures made by Curtis - Marakihau (East Coast design), Wheka (Arawa design), figure with tattoo on face; collection of pendants carved by Curtis along with a stage coach bugle; and a war canoe used to re-enact Kupe's landing taken at Opononi by Miss Pepper. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Meryon, Charles 1821-1868 :Nouvelle-Zelande; greniers indigenes et habitations a Akaroa...

Date: 1865 - 1845 - 1866

By: Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868

Reference: B-014-007

Description: A large thatched storehouse (pataka) on four poles to the left, outside a fenced area containing three houses (one with a European-style slab chimney), and a smaller taller storehouse in a tree on the far right. A group of Maori outside the fence appear to be selling potatoes to a European. No. S97 in Richard S. Schneiderman's catalogue raisonne. State vi/vii. Other Titles - New Zealand. Native store-houses and dwellings at Akaroa. Banks Peninsula [translation] Collector's mark on recto, a stamped monogram with AM in a circle. (The same mark appears on B-014-003). The Library holds another copy of the same print, same state, at B-014-006, more heavily inked than B-014-007 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 5 x 9 inches

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Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975 :Maori Food Store Model Pah, Whakawarewara Rotorua....

Date: 1929

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975 :[Rotorua and district] [ca 1929]

Reference: A-227-084

Description: Shows entrance to a Maori village with trees and hills in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 280 mm

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