Places

Date: 1844

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-027

Description: A Pakeha male and two Maori walking on a rocky beach with cliffs and low scrub to their right, looking towards Palliser Bay and Wellington in the distance. Both Maori are in cloaks and are carrying taiaha. This work was given the title Turakirae Head by Library staff, possibly in the 1950s, 60s or early 1970s. Close inspection in January 1996 revealed a previously unnoticed title. Cape Palliser is a considerable distance from Turakirae Head, although along the same stretch of coastline. Modern photographs confirm that the site is Cape Palliser, and that the topography as recorded by Brees is accurate. The only modern change is a (probably man-made) pool half-way between the high tide mark and the cliffs. A copy of modern photographs of the same scene is with the watercolour. On verso: section of a manuscript map of Pauatahanui and Porirua Harbour, presumably by Brees. Pauatahanui is called Pawai Tang[inui? - paper trimmed]. Other Titles - Turakirae Head, Palliser Bay coast ca 1843 Inscriptions: Recto - lower centre over a sandy patch between the foreground rock outcrop and the closest Maori and rocks; in brushpoint and very faint and illegible in parts: Cape Palliser towards the Wairarapa. 1844. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 173 x 372 mm

Date: 1823 - 1846

Reference: A-178-016

Description: Shows Rangihaeata's stockade, built and captured 1846, at Pauatahanui; pickets; a military tent with a figure in red in the foreground. The terrain appears to be misrepresented; compare R H Wynyard's Old stockade at Pahatanui [1852] Title from verso; initials and date indistinct Date (apparently 1823) is wrong. More likely to be 1846 or later. The stockade was built and captured by British troops in 1846. The pa was located at Pauatahanui on the low hill that is now the site of St Albans Church Other Titles - Pauatahanui Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, crayon and watercolour on paper 179 x 254 mm

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-007

Description: Shows a Maori man walking on the near shore to the right, and a pa on top of a low hill across the water. The Pa is Rangihaeata's Matai Taua Pa Copy of pencil drawing (115 x 185 mm) copied by Mary Marshall from original by W. Swainson. Matai Taua Pa, built ca 1845, was abandoned by Rangihaeata in 1846 when he withdrew with his men to Battle Hill to face British soldiers. He later moved north to Horowhenua Other Titles - Pauatahanui Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Microfilm printout, 238 x 167 mm

Date: 1846

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 :Collection of photographs

Reference: PAColl-3033-1-39

Description: Photograph of an ink drawing depicting a ground plan of Rangihaeata's pa at the head of Pauatahanui inlet, with references and a sketch of the outer palisades, drawn by an unidentified artist. Other - A similar image appears in James Cowan's "New Zealand wars", volume 1, page 121. Source of descriptive information - Notes on item. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 14.7 x 15.7 cm

Date: 1844 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: B-031-036

Description: Map of Porirua Harbour, Paramata, Plimmerton and Pukerua districts with Mana Island. Location of several pa sites indicated: Wairaka Pa near Pukerua Bay; Taupo Pa (built 1844) at Plimmerton, Warakoua Pa on Porirua Harbour's North shore, and a pa at Titahi Bay. Also shows location of Jackson's Hotel, Thom's hotel and whaling station, Maori gardens beyond Taupo pa and Maori path to Pukerua Bay. Subdivisions of land are indicated around Porirua Harbour. Attributed to Charles Heaphy until 1993, because sketches referred to in title were thought to be Heaphy's. Reattribution to Brees because 1. Brees was Principal surveyor for the N.Z.Company and the map shows land subdivisions. 2. Handwriting very similar to Brees' on MS map held by the Admiralty (photo held by Cartographic Collection (823 at / 1844-5 / acc 855) 3. Indications of points of view of sketches can mostly be linked with known originals by Brees. The following list gives the numbers on this map followed by titles and plate numbers of the matching illustration from Brees' Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand (London, 1847). No.21 [i.e. no. 1 or 2?] = Porirua Harbour no. 35, described as looking towards the north from near Jackson's towards Thom's. No.3. Thom's whaling station, Porerua, no.14. No.4. Porerua Harbour no. 29; also Porirua Harbour, ATL's watercolour (B-031-006), looking south towards Thom's and Paramata Pa. No.5. Paramata Pa, Porerua, no.52. No.6 Porerua Bay, no.12. Taken from the native path towards Pukerua, showing the "native potatoe gardens". No.7 Island of Mana. No.8. No parallel image traced. No.9 Pokaroa and the Island of Kapiti, no.37. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Title. Other place names and geographical features elsewhere. "Portfolio D. Marked &c by Mrs Allom" inscribed above title by the New Zealand Company Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & Watercolour 319 x 409 mm on laid paper, watermarked 1840 Provenance: New Zealand Company; purchased by A.H.Turnbull in 1915.