Places

Date: 1860s-1949

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Johnston, Owen, active 1940-1987; New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: PA1-o-1038

Description: Contains photographs of a Maori group at Wanganui, Te Rangitahau of Waitahanui, inscription at Wairaka meeting house (Whakatane), Pohaturoa Rock (Whakatane), Tainui anchor stone at Mokau, Matahourua anchor stone at Dominion Museum, Tokomaru anchor stone at New Plymouth Museum, hui at Rangitukua (March 1945), Ngarimu hui at Ruatoria (1943), hui at Hiruharama (1945), Tahi hohepa at Otukou (1947), reception to Field-Marshall Montgomery at Ohinemutu (1947), Sir Apirana Ngata speaking at erection of Porourangi meeting house (Waiomatatini), scenes in Parihaka, and Sir Peter Buck at Te Araroa (March 1949). The photographers represented are W J Harding, A P Godber, Burton Brothers, Owen Johnston, and the New Zealand Railways Publicity Department. A number of images were provided by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Graphic drawing book 23 x 31 cm

Date: 1864

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

Reference: E-372-f-003-1

Description: A battle raging across a river with a tall hill to the right, based on a drawing supplied by Charles Heaphy. The Waiari fight was part of the Waikato-Tauranga campaign of the New Zealand Wars. The Waiari area is now known as Mangapiko Extended Title - From Illustrated London news, 28 May 1864, p. 525 Waiari or Mangapiko was the battle at which artist and soldier, Charles Heaphy, won his V. C. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 170 x 235 mm

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-020-09

Description: A half-length frontal portrait of an unnamed Maori man of Petone Pa. He has a moko, is wearing a European cap and is wrapped in a blanket or flax cloak. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 122 x 75 mm

Date: 1833 - 1840

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Laderer, active 1830s

Reference: A-327-003

Description: Shows head and shoulders portraits of two women, one man and an infant. These are selected from Plate 70 in Dumont DUrville's "Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe ... (Paris, 1833), portraits 3,5 and 6, and therefore show Ekara, young girl of the Bay of Islands, and Tawiti and his wife. Tawiti's wife holds a baby wrapped in her cloak by her shoulder. Plate 176 from an unknown publication in German or Dutch, derived at least partly from Dumont D'Urville's "Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe". Other Titles - New Zealand. Portraits of inhabitants Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 100 x 154 mm.

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

Date: 1930 - 1820 - 1939

From: Goodwin, Arnold Frederick, 1890-1978 :[Historical incidents in New Zealand in 1820]. By courtesy John Walker & Sons, Ltd., Distillers, Kilmarnock [Edinburgh? 1930s]

Reference: A-236-002-a

Description: The palisades of a large Maori pa, with several Maori greeting Bellingshausen and his men. Dense bush in the background. There was no large pa at Ship Cove in 1820, nor did Ship Cove itself become a great whaling port, although Te Awaiti, at the entrance to Tory Channel, some distance away in Queen Charlotte Sound, did become a whaling station. Other Titles - Bellingshausen Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 211 x 157 mm Provenance: Donated by Mr B N Lindsay of Wellington, in 1984. Transfers: Transfer from MSS&A 84-145, Macdonald family papers, in 2003..

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-023-3

Description: Half-length frontal portrait of a seated Maori man, with his eyes closed. He is wearing European clothing, including a peaked cap. He has moko and is smoking a small pipe. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 130 x 112 mm

Date: 1843 - 1846

By: Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868

Reference: B-014-013

Description: Photograph of sketch printed from microfilm in ATL of original reports and letters by Meryon in the British Museum. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of sketch

Date: 1880 - 1865 - 1890

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: E-280-011-3

Description: Shows a Maori warrior performing a haka. He is holding a tewhatewha. There is detailed tattooing known as `puhoro' on his left thigh. Tutu ngarahu is the name of the type of haka See also "Moko", p. 32, fig. 27. Almost identical drawing of Tutu Ngarahu on E-280-011-5 has the inscription on verso `carved gate at Maketu 1865'. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of a drawing on postcard 140 x 90 mm

Date: 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: A-228-006

Description: A Maori man seated on a high flat rock in a limestone shelter, looking out to a plain with ponds in the distance See also: E-281-007; see also E-333-026/027, Mantell's version of the same view 'The Commissioner' referred to is Walter Mantell Inscriptions: Recto - top right - No 6. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 60 x 140 mm

Date: 1800

From: Artist unknown :[South Seas views from Galleria universale di tutti i popoli del mondo. Venezia, Antonelli, 1841]

Reference: A-119-045

Description: Plate 77, volume 3 of an illustrated Italian publication. An upper plate shows a Maori man from the Far North District, one arm stretched out, with another figure, supposedly a woman (in fact a boy) to the right. A lower plate shows a group of Tongan women dancing, observed by the seated Queen Tine to the right. Both views are based on engravings by Piron from J. J. H. Labaillardiere's 'Voyage in search of La Perouse' (Paris, 1800) Other Titles - Native man and girl of New Zealand. Dance of the Friendly Isles before the Queen [translation] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Two hand-coloured lithographs on one sheet, 296 x 201 mm

Date: 1867

From: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867

Reference: E-370-010-1

Description: The Ruamahanga River, with bush on both sides. A war-canoe is rounding the bend in the distance, and two Maori men are observing its approach from the bank on the left. The artist mentions in his title that the latter details are imaginary. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 133 x 205 mm

Date: 1855 - 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. 1st series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-452-f-011-2

Description: A seated Maori man, holding a taiaha (spear). He is wearing a flax rain cape over European clothes, has short hair and moko Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 180 x 240 mm

Date: 1833

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Vanderburch, H, active 1833; Adam, Jean Victor, 1801-1867

Reference: B-052-015

Description: Shows Maori whare beside stream, group of sailors and Maori. Published in: Dumont D'Urville, J.S.C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe. Atlas [historique]. Pl. 45. Other Titles - Uawa Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-col. 208 x 356 mm, on sheet 330 x 510 mm

Date: 1816 - 1991

From: Various artists: [New Zealand seen by the French; postcards]. Wellington, National Library of New Zealand, 1991.

By: Piron, Jean, active 1791-1794

Reference: E-279-q-155-1

Description: Reproduction of a watercolour by an unknown artist after Piron from collection of the Hocken Library, Dunedin. Portrait of Ranginui, ca 1816? Produced in conjunction with the exhibition "New Zealand seen by the French, 1769-1846", National Library Gallery, 21 September-30 November 1991. Identical image reproduced on postcard at E-279-q-152 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 1 colour photolithograph, on card 105 x 150 mm

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

Date: 1844 - 1888 - 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Kirkwood, Henry William, 1854-1925

Reference: B-110-021-1

Description: Shows full-length figure of Hongi Hongi (a.k.a. Nga Toki), wearing mats or blankets, a greenstone earring, and holding a greenstone mere in his right hand. He stands before the posts of the pa enclosure at Ngahuruhuru Pa, four miles from Otawhao. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844. This is a redrawing of his lithograph Hongi Hongi, plate 11 in his The New Zealanders illustrated (London, 1847). The copyist is probably H. W. Kirkwood One of four lithographs on one sheet, all copies of work by Angas and probably all copied by Kirkwood. The centre of the sheet is inscribed in blue pencil 'Printed 2500 copies' Other Titles - Hongi Hongi Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 216 x 145 mm

Date: 1847

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-040-4

Description: A Maori man, Haumuera Puketapu, shown seated, in European clothing, with his back to the viewer near the coast at New Plymouth looking north. In front of him is a raupo whare and a group of three other seated Maori. In: Mantell, W B D Scrapbook Other Titles - Village of Samuel Puketapu [translation] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 126 x 208 mm

Date: 1848 - 1850

From: [Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[New Zealand and Pacific sketchbook, 1848 to 1856]

By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858

Reference: E-454-q-023

Description: View north across the harbour from Thorndon, just to the left of Pipitea Pa, with the palisades of the pa on the right, a ravine and three Maori to the left of the ravine. Kaiwharawhara with the hotel is visible on the extreme left, with the Western hills leading to the Tararuas, and the Hutt Valley in the distance. The view may possibly be further along Thorndon Beach from the Pa. There was a ravine where the motorway now runs, crossed by the Hobson Street Bridge in later years, and this may be the area shown, in central Thorndon. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Kate Kavanagh, England, 1993

Date: 1827 - 1847

From: [Various artists] :[Costume plates of Oceania] Torino [Turin] ; Fontana, 1844

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Mercier, active 1840s; Thomson, John Mansfield, 1926-1999

Reference: A-119-025-a/026-a

Description: Shows head and shoulders profiles of 2 Maori men, tattooed and with topknots. Wahlen's book is a translation of his "Moeurs, usages et coutumes de tous les peuples du monde..." Bruxelles, 1843-44. Vol. 4. This print is probably a first state. It differs from A-119-025/026 which does not have the signature by MERCIER and which shows damage or wear on the block in the shading above the upper figure's left shoulder Other Titles - Types of natives of New Zealand [translation] Extended Title - From: Wahlen, A. Usi e costumi sociali, politici, et religiosi... Vol. 2 Oceania. Torino, 1844-1847. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - MERCIER; Recto - beneath image - Tipi degli indigeni della Nuova Zelanda Sainson visited New Zealand in the Astrolabe in early 1827. Engraved after L. A. de Sainson's \"Nouvelle Zelande: chef de Houa-Houa...\" (image reversed), and \"Nouvelle Zelande. Naturel de Teraouiti\" (image reversed). See Dumont dUrville, J. S. C. \"Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe...Atlas\". Paris: J. Tastu, 1833. Plate 53. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, handcoloured, on sheet 265 x 165 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr J. M. Thomson, of Wellington, in 1991.