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Date: 1845

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-079-004

Description: The British attack on Kapotai Pa, Waikare Inlet, Bay of Islands. Several armed redcoats by a clump of bushes in the foreground, other soldiers and "friendly" Maori firing from behind a line of bushes in the middle distance towards the fenced pa site set against hills. A European house outside the fencing on the right has other Maori around it. This attack took place in the Omapere area, a week after the attack on Puketutu Pa. Kapotai Pa was on one of the head creeks of the Waikare Inlet. Bridge organised a boat expedition to Kapotai Pa and burned the pa while the friendly Maori, under Tamati Waka Nene, fought the Kapotai in the bush. (Information from James Cowan's "The New Zealand Wars" (1922), p.45, where this image is reproduced. Inscriptions: Recto - [title in Bridge's hand and] Cyp.Bridge fecit [in pencil] cf A-079-025, John Williams' pastel sketch of the same view, possibly the field sketch, while Bridge's watercolour is more likely to be worked up from Williams' view. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white with scratching out 187 x 258 mm

Date: 24 September 1894

From: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 :Maori portraits and artifacts

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PAColl-1893-04

Description: Guard of honour at tangi of Tawhiao. The guard are carrying rifles. Photograph taken 24 September 1894 by Enos Pegler. King Tawhiao died 26 August 1894 at Parawera. He was buried at Taupiri after a tangi in September. On 24 September the tangi was open to pakeha visitors. The photograph was taken that day with a "Facile" camera. Sources of information: DNZB, vol 2; Sharland's New Zealand Photographer, 8 Oct 1894; William Main, Auckland through a Victorian lens (Wellington: Millwood, 1977). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 9.6 x 14.3 cm

Date: 24 September 1894

From: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 :Maori portraits and artifacts

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PAColl-1893-05

Description: King Tawhiao's soldiers performing a haka at his tangi. Photograph taken 24 September 1894 by Enos Pegler. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - copyright NZ 94; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Tawhiao the Maori King's tangi. Maori forces of.... King Tawhiao died 26 August 1894 at Parawera. He was buried at Taupiri after a tangi in September. On 24 September the tangi was open to pakeha visitors. The photograph was taken that day with a "Facile" camera. Sources of information: DNZB, vol 2; Sharland's New Zealand Photographer, 8 Oct 1894; William Main, Auckland through a Victorian lens (Wellington: Millwood, 1977). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 14.5 x 19.8 cm

Date: 1864

By: Florance, Augustus (Dr), 1812-1879

Reference: C-031-001

Description: A battle raging across a river with a tall hill to the right, based on an illustration, (possibly from a drawing supplied by Charles Heaphy), in the Illustrated London News, May 1864, p. 525. The Waiari fight was part of the Waikato-Tauranga campaign of the New Zealand Wars. The Waiari area is now known as Mangapiko Inscriptions: Signed: A Florance Waiari or Mangapiko was the battle at which artist and soldier, Charles Heaphy, won his V. C. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with pen and brown ink 444 x 559 mm (image 325 x 475 mm

Date: 24 September 1894

From: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 :Maori portraits and artifacts

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PAColl-1893-06

Description: Guard of honour at tangi of Tawhiao. The man in the foreground, probably the commander of the guard, carries a sword. The guard, lined up at right, have laid their rifles on the ground. A group of pakeha visitors to the tangi, including children, are at left. Photograph taken 24 September 1894 by Enos Pegler. King Tawhiao died 26 August 1894 at Parawera. He was buried at Taupiri after a tangi in September. On 24 September the tangi was open to pakeha visitors. The photograph was taken that day with a "Facile" camera. Sources of information: DNZB, vol 2; Sharland's New Zealand Photographer, 8 Oct 1894; William Main, Auckland through a Victorian lens (Wellington: Millwood, 1977). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 14.6 x 19.6 cm

Date: 24 September 1894

From: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 :Maori portraits and artifacts

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PAColl-1893-08

Description: Guard of honour at tangi of Tawhiao. The guard are carrying rifles. Photograph taken 24 September 1894 by Enos Pegler. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - King Tawhiao's tangi, the body guard King Tawhiao died 26 August 1894 at Parawera. He was buried at Taupiri after a tangi in September. On 24 September the tangi was open to pakeha visitors. The photograph was taken that day with a "Facile" camera. Sources of information: DNZB, vol 2; Sharland's New Zealand Photographer, 8 Oct 1894; William Main, Auckland through a Victorian lens (Wellington: Millwood, 1977). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 15.2 x 20 cm

Date: 1864 - 1865

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Calvert, Samuel, 1828-1913

Reference: PUBL-0060

Description: A closely-fought battle between Maori and European soldiers, with earth ramparts between the participants. Extended Title - From Colonial views (London, 1865) Inscriptions: Recto - N. C. (bottom left); Calvert (engraver) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, tinted, 288 x 420 mm

Date: 1851, 1852

From: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889: A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand

Reference: PUBL-0032-6

Description: A group of Māori in front of a tent shelter. The group includes two seated women, one breast-feeding an infant, a naked todler reclining in front and two young men standing behind, one with a rifle and cartridge case. A tewhatewha lies in front on top of a pile of cloaks. A third woman kneels to the right, her back to the artist and her face hidden. According to Oliver's accompanying text, the scene is at Kororāreka (modern Russell) in 1851, during the feast (hākari) put on by Tamati Waka Nene. Text reads: 'The man on the right with the musket is Neddy, who fought against us under Heki (Hone Heke) at Ruapekapeka. The girl next to him is Maria ... the woman with the baby is said to be the daughter of the Chevalier Dillon; and on the left is Jane, who was famous for her personal attractions ...The old lady kneeling on the right is "Na Nuia" Pomare's wife, who placed herself in that becoming attitude to avoid having her portrait taken.' 'Jane, who was famous for her personal attractions' may be Jane Gray, daughter of Alexander Gray and Kotero Hinerangi. Title transcribed from item. The Library has an original watercolour version of this lithograph at C-054-021. The Library has an uncoloured version of the tinted lithograph at C-054-006. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: 1 hand-coloured lithograph, 268 x 391 mm

Date: 24 September 1894

From: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 :Maori portraits and artifacts

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PAColl-1893-01

Description: Guard of honour at tangi of Tawhiao. The guard are carrying rifles. Photograph taken 24 September 1894 by Enos Pegler. King Tawhiao died 26 August 1894 at Parawera. He was buried at Taupiri after a tangi in September. On 24 September the tangi was open to pakeha visitors. The photograph was taken that day with a "Facile" camera. Sources of information: DNZB, vol 2; Sharland's New Zealand Photographer, 8 Oct 1894; William Main, Auckland through a Victorian lens (Wellington: Millwood, 1977). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 9.7 x 14.9 cm

Date: 1844 - 1848

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Trafford, Benjamin William Rawson, 1824?-1891; Methodist Missionary Society

Reference: A-255-019

Description: Shows Tamati Waka Nene, standing in flax cloak, with rifle held across his body. Probably painted around the time of the Northland wars, 1845-46, in Auckland or Northland. Cf two very similar portraits, also by Merrett, of Tamati Waka Nene held by Waihi Arts Centre and Museum and by Auckland Public Library. Has also been attributed to Benjamin William Rawson Trafford, in Wanganui from 1847 Attribution based on style. Date based on date of Auckland Public Library version. However the work is also very similar to a lithograph attributed to Benjamin Trafford 'Tamati Waka Nene, Chief of the Ngapui'; 'Lieut B Trafford del', published in Power, J T. Sketches in New Zealand, with pen and pencil ... (London, 1849), opposite p 104 Other Titles - Tamati Waka Nene; Bejamin William Rawson Trafford Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 295 x 258 mm Provenance: Previously the property of the Methodist Missionary Society, London

Date: 1861

By: Alexander, James Edward (Sir), 1803-1885; Groshinski, Brian Peter, 1944-

Reference: A-113-033

Description: Two men, one seated, one standing, clad in Zouave-style (North African) uniforms with blue fez with a red tassle, short red collarless jackets, blue shirts and baggy blue knickerbockers, brown stockings and ankle-length boots. The seated man on the left, holding a taiaha, is on a slab of stone, with two palm trees behind him, possibly intended to be nikau. The standing man is holding a rifle. On the right is a toitoi in flower. There is a bay and low hills beyond the two men, probably Auckland Harbour with Rangitoto Island in the background. The type of uniform shown was never adopted for Maori soldiers The artist partook in the Waikato and Taranaki campaigns of the New Zealand Wars, 1860-1863. He wrote two books about the wars in New Zealand and in his "Bush Fighting. Illustrated by Remarkable Actions and Incidents of the Maori War in New Zealand" (London, 1873), Chapter 1, he makes suggestions about the ideal uniforms for bush fighters; he also (p. 14) mentions that "[Maori] look best in their native attire. I tried to introduce for the men the kilt and knickerbockers, instead of trousers, where I was stationed. Of course I did not venture to suggest changes in the ladies' costumes." Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and sepia wash over pencil 162 x 247 mm Provenance: Probably purchased in London in the 1930s by the Pyecroft family, of Auckland. Sold in the early 1970s to art dealer Brian Groshinski, then of Wellington, and later of Auckland and Melbourne.