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Date: [1870s-1880s]

Reference: 1/2-107060

Description: Photograph of unidentified group of Maori with a canoe, on a siding off the Ruamahanga River, Wairarapa. The Ruamahanga River was the principal waterway through the Wairarapa valley Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003082-G

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of a Maori man wearing a beard, and a kakahu (Maori cloak). Photographed by William Henry Thomas Partington, probably at Wanganui, ca 1900. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 12. Te Mahi Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Ingle, M A (Mr), fl 1967 :Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-37-09

Description: Photograph of a Maori woman seated on the ground wearing a flax cloak. Standing beside her is a Maori man wearing a full-length tag cloak. The couple are posing outside in an area surrounded by flax bushes. Photographed by Burton Bros, ca 1880s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3794 - Winete Paranihi & Kuini - Papakai, King Country. Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.5 x 20.2 cm on mount 22.5 x 29 cm

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: A-286-004

Description: Head and shoulders profile portrait of Iwikau, a Maori man, from Wakapuaka pa, near Nelson Iwikau's wife, Hingatu, and child are shown in another portrait in this group (A-286-005) See: Minson, Marian. Art as evidence : the enigma of the Nelson Maori portraits. In: Turnbull Library record, vo.23, no.1 May 1990, p.47-67 for further information. Iwikau is likely to have been converted by the Rev. Charles Reay of Nelson Other Titles - Iwikau. Wakapuaka. Remarkable for his piety. 1843? Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title cf almost identical portrait in Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass. (Coates, I. Remarkable for his piety...). Library has file print Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 257 x 192 mm Provenance: Part of a house sale in Boston, purchased by New York dealer, then by Auckland dealer. Transfers: One of 19 portraits (A-286-1 to 19).

Date: [circa 1860]

Reference: PA2-2397

Description: Te Anaua, circa 1860. Photographer unidentified. Te Anaua, also called Tu and Hori Kingi was a prominent Whanganui chief in the early part of the nineteenth century. He was head chief of the Ngati-Ruaka. Te Anaua signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Hori Kingi Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-005

Description: Shows a spirited group of three Maori, two men and one woman, each on horseback, galloping from left to right in profile. The woman wears a top hat, and the men wear peaked caps. The woman rides sidesaddle. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - William Strutt 1856.; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 190 x 255 mm

Date: [1890-1900]

Reference: 1/2-042038-G

Description: Full length studio portrait of Tutu (Hoani Paraone) Te Whaiti, wearing a tweed suit and a fob chain Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - top right - Tutu Te Whaiti Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1879 - 1860 - 1881

By: Forbes, David W, active 1950s-2000s

Reference: A-279-003

Description: A cartoon showing a Maori man about to tuck into an enormous plum pudding with a large plate of meat to one side, in the "before" view; and looking very well-fed and fat with many empty plates on the table in the "after" view. He is seated in a room with leadlight windows. The room with leadlight windows may be the Melanesian Mission building at Kohimarama (Mission Bay) where Governor Gore Browne convened a Maori Conference in 1860. Another possibility is that the conference is one of the series of conferences at Orakei in 1879, 1880 and 1881, to discuss and ratify the terms of the Treaty of Waitangi, 1840. The latter conferences were held in a building constructed by Paora Tuhaere, probably lacking leadlight windows. The image implies that the Conference was simply an excuse for gluttony. Inscriptions: Recto - above & below image: title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink on cream wove paper 121 x 193 mm Provenance: Purchased from a book dealer (Mr Wreden) in Palo Alto, California, by David Forbes, 1970s.

Date: Jan 1908

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001929-G

Description: Photograph of two elderly men, Kiharoa Akuhata (left) and elder brother Eruera te Uremutu, sitting side by side on chairs outside a carved house at Ohinemutu. On the far left is a stone with the words `Ko Tauwhitu Mei 1 1894' on it. Photograph taken by William Arthur Price on 10 Jan 1908. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Carved Maori House. Ohinemutu. Rotorua. 1299.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - W.A.P. 10.1.08 William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1827 - 1838 - 1828

From: Earle, Augustus 1793-1838 :Sketches illustrative of the Native Inhabitants and Islands of New Zealand from original drawings by Augustus Earle Esq, Draughtsman of H. M. S. "Beagle". London, Lithographed and Published under the auspices of the New Zealand Association by Robert Martin & Co, 1838

Reference: PUBL-0015-07

Description: Seated portrait of Kawakawa (Bay of Islands) chief Rangituke, his wife leaning on his shoulder, his son seated at his feet, viewed, according to the artist, 'from the window of my hut at the Bay of Islands' (Russell or Kawakawa?). A carved storehouse is in the right background and a whare and storage platform on the left, with the sea beyond. According to Earle 'it illustrates the general attachment of the natives of New Zealand to their wives and children'. Based on Earle's oil painting 'Portrait of Arangi Tooker [Rangituke] ... with his wife and son ... [1827]' (G-634) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 289 x 235 mm

Date: 1843

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

Reference: PUBL-0011-08-1

Description: An extensive view of the Wairarapa Plain with Wairarapa Lake on the left, Rimutaka Range and Tararua Ranges in the background. A boar hunt is underway in the foreground, with one Maori man and a dog to the right. The Maori man is dressed in traditional costume, and appears to be carrying a rope. Bracken and ferns in the foreground and clumps of bush on the plain. The accompanying text reads: This district lies about fifty miles from Wellington by the nearest road. Mr Charles Kettle, one of the Company's Assistant-Surveyors, ascended the Manawatu River, which flows along the other side of the Tararua Mountains, and entered this plain by rounding the low spurs at the extreme right of the view. The forest consists of the largest trees. The open tracts are covered with grass, feern and tutu bushes. Wild hogs abound in this plain. The Ruamahanga flows through the midst of it, and passes through Lake Wairarapa into Palliser Bay. The plain of the Ruamahanga is about sixty miles in length, with an average breadth of twelve miles. There is one small native village at its northern extremity, and another on the beach at Palliser Bay, as well as a whaling station supplied from Wellington. Lake Wairarapa is ten miles long, and from two to three miles broad. Between the lake and the sea several settlers from Wellington have recently squatted with large herds of cattle, which they drove along the sea-coast. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 238 x 460 mm

Date: 1843

By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: A-255-017

Description: Head and shoulders profile portrait of Te Rangihaeata, a peacock feather in his top-knot, an albatross feather ear adornment and a fine flax cloak. One of a series of portraits of at least twenty Maori men and women done by Nelson artist Isaac Coates. Rangihaeata & Rauparaha, with their wives and whanau, visited Nelson in March 1843, the likely date of this portrait. The artist made various watercolour copies of this portrait, but this appears to be an earlier version than the one held in the Library's collection at A-286-014 and the one in the Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachussets. There is a (probably) still earlier version in the Bett Collection, Nelson Provincial Museum. Other Titles - Rangihaeata Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & ink, 284 x 191 mm Provenance: Purchase: Nigel Tully, Terra Australis, Wollstonecraft, New South Wales, 1985.

Date: 1843

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

Reference: PUBL-0011-08-2

Description: An extensive view of the Wairarapa Plain with Rimutaka Range and Tararua Ranges in the background ("the snowy range in the distance is the Tararua Mountains"); a wild boar hunt in the foreground, with 4 Maori, 3 Pakeha men and four dogs. The dogs are worrying the boar. The Maori are wearing traditional Maori clothing, and all are carrying firearms. Bracken and tree ferns in the foreground and clumps of bush on the plain. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 238 x 495 mm

Date: 1887 - 1883

From: [Ryan, Thomas Aldworth] 1864-1927 :Te Kooti or Turuki addressing Rotorua natives at Tama te Kopua in 1887 [i. e. December 1883?]

By: Laishley, Richard, 1816-1897; Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927

Reference: A-114-004-2

Description: Recto: Head & shoulders portrait of Te Kooti and smaller portrait of an unidentified man (although he is most probably Te Kooti, also, wearing a hat with its brim turned up at the front). Formerly attributed to Richard Laishley. However it is more likely to be the work of Thomas Ryan who was present at Tama te Kopua in 1887, when te Kooti was addressing Rotorua Maori. Ruyan drew Te Kooti in profile (see A-114-004-1 - Te Kooti or Turuki addressing Rotorua natives in 1887' - on the other side of this sheet). Ryan is very likely to have produced this drawing as well. The handwriting and style of drawing both appear to be Ryan's Other Titles - Laishley, Richard, 1815-1897. Te Kooti at Rotorua. 1887. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 210 x 140 mm

Date: 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-452-f-005-2

Description: A young man standing, draped in a flax cloak, moko on his chin, two feathers in his hair, ear adornments in each ear, and a tewhatewha in his right hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 230 x 180 mm

Date: 1827 - 1805

By: Harris, George Prideaux Robert, 1775-1840; Archibald, W, active 1827; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-092-007

Description: Shows a three-quarter-length portrait of a chief with two feathers in his hair, wearing a cloak over one shoulder and a pendant in the shape of a skull, holding a mere in his left hand. In the background is a river or lake with a war canoe with armed warriors on board. G. P. Harris was in Sydney when Te Pahi visited in 1805 Other Titles - Te Pahi Extended Title - Frontispiece from H. Murray's "Adventures of British seamen" (Edinburgh, 1827). Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on sheet 106 x 78 mm. (trimmed)

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003127-G

Description: Studio photograph of a group of men. Three are wearing feather cloaks, one is wearing a piupiu around his shoulders, two others as a skirt. The two younger men sitting in the front are wearing striped tops. Three of the men are holding taiaha. Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington, ca 1900, probably in the Wanganui district. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Jessie H, active 1935-1947

Reference: B-031-004

Description: Sea to the right, with a beach, with two women and a man on horseback. Low bushes in the centre right foreground, in the centre a Maori man in a flax cloak pointing twoards the sea and in conversation with a Pakeha man; two Maori walking away in a red and a black cloak; another man, apparently aiming a slingshot; and two other Maori figures, seated on the ground. Beyond the figures is an undulating plain, probably sandhills. In the distance are several ranks of higher hills. Identification of the location suggested by the strong similarity of the line of hills in the background to those depicted in B-031-030, which Brees has titled Mana Pokerua [i.e. Mana Island and Pukerua] Other Titles - Pokarua Mana Pukerua Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - POKARUA. MANA. [Conjectured title. Only the PO then the M are visible] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 178 x 343 mm

Date: 1815 - 1819

By: Lewin, John William, 1770-1819

Reference: A-237-042

Description: Shows full-face head and shoulders portrait of a Maori chief with moko, short curly hair, a turkey feather over his right ear, ear ornaments and a feather cloak. The chief's name was Te Uri Kanae Attribution based on the fact that an engraving was made of this work in 1824, and Lewin is acknowledged as artist ("Lewin del."). A copy of the engraving is held at A-092-002 According to Ellis' "Early prints of New Zealand" (Christchurch, 1978), A Hoodee O Gunna [Turi a Kuna] was a signatory to the first sale of land in New Zealand, to the Church Missionary Society in February 1815. Dating has been made on the basis of this. The subject is a chief of Rangihoua and nephew of Te Pahi. Lewin is said to have made his sketch of this subject in Sydney; there is no evidence for Lewin having visited New Zealand. Other Titles - Te Uri o Kanae Turi a Kuna Rangihoua Inscriptions: None. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 166 x 133 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by John Dixon Antiques, Park Street, Wellington and exhibited by them, 6 & 7 July 1964 at Wakefield House, 90 The Terrace, Antique Fair and Exhibition with the caption 'A young Maori chieftain from Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand' - watercolour by ... J. W. Lewin

Date: 1838 - 1827 - 1828

From: Earle, Augustus 1793-1838 :Sketches illustrative of the Native Inhabitants and Islands of New Zealand from original drawings by Augustus Earle Esq, Draughtsman of H. M. S. "Beagle". London, Lithographed and Published under the auspices of the New Zealand Association by Robert Martin & Co, 1838

Reference: PUBL-0015-09

Description: A Maori chief standing in a beached canoe, addressing a crowd of warriors, mostly seated, with a few standing. Two other long canoes are on the beach, one with a sail is in the water, and others are pulled up close to a pa or kainga in the left background. A dog sniffs the ground in the foreground. Most men are armed with guns, although one on the far right holds a taiaha. A gourd and flax kit are centrally placed amongst one group of men. Earle's text reads: "A party of warriors had collected at the Bay of Islands for the purpose of making a hostile visit to a tribe on the banks of the Thames. They were detained by contrary winds; and for several days were constantly engaged in listening to speeches from their chiefs, who addressed them from a canoe hauled on shore ... one [canoe], which I measured, was 70 feet long, and carried one hundred fighting men." Contents page gives title as: "War speech, previous to a naval expedition". Other Titles - War speech, previous to a naval expedition Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 238 x 377 mm