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Correspondence
Date: Apr-Aug 1881
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
Reference: 77-248-04/1
Description: Identified correspondents entered under Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Harata Solomon drafts
Date: [ca 1988-1989]
From: Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme 1944- : Papers of the Matriarchs
Reference: MS-Papers-4416-19
Description: Contains holograph notes, clippings, whakapapa and original transcripts of the interview with Solomon. One of these transcripts is unmarked and one has been proofed, edited and corrected. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Letter book
Date: Dec 1906-May 1907
From: Keys, Ben, 1878-1951 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0407-23
Description: Letters from Keys to family and friends providing detailed information about his travels through the lower North Island on Maori Land Court business; there are detailed descriptions of the countryside and townships which Keys travels through, and discussions of people that he meets; there are also discussions of Maori practices and customs that he experiences and his impressions of them; there is also information about Keys' work in the Maori Land Court Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Elsdon Best - Notes and correspondence on Maori matters
Date: [189-?]
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-020
Description: Comprises notes in Best's hand, notes by S P Smith and letters to Smith. Among the variety of material are notes on Hau, a West Coast ancestor and his journey to Paekakariki; traditional history of early ancestor Tutahanga and fighting between Ngati Maru and Ngapuhi; whakapapa from Karepa Te Uira to Tamarere Ahu II; queries and notes about Ngati Ira and early Wellington; brief notes and whakapapa of Ngati Maru; a waiata from Whanake; many items relating to Wellington Maori place names, iwi, chiefs and history and other fragments of North Island Maori history. Includes two letters from W H Skinner to S P Smith, 1894. Also contains notes about the Ngati Toa and Taranaki chiefs leading the migrations to the Horowhenua and Wellington regions, and their conflicts with the Muaupoko; Ngati Apa; Rangitane and Ngati Kahungunu. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed listing of folder contents available in inventory.
H T Whatahoro Jury - Notebook
Date: 1873-1876
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B040
Description: Contains a list of owners of blocks of land in the Wanganui district, and a number of narratives about; significant events in the history of Ngati Kahungunu, Moriori settlement on the Chatham Islands, events in Hawaiki and subsequent migrations and settlements, the burning of the Te Arawa canoe, and conflicts in the 1820s and 1830s involving Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Porou, Ngapuhi, Rangitane, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa Physical Description: ¼ maroon black boards, 33 cm., vol numbered 26
H T Whatahoro Jury - Whakapapa book
Date: 1900-1904
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-124
Description: Contains whakapapa, with particular reference to Ngati Raukawa and Ngati Toa and shows relationship to the Kingitanga, waiata, and notes about the migration of Ngati Apa from the Whakatane area to Rangitikei, and notes about the Kurahaupo canoe (passengers etc) Also contains notes about conflicts involving Wairarapa hapu Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss
Elsdon Best - Miscellaneous notes
Date: [ca 1893-1895]
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-037
Description: Includes correspondence and notes to S P Smith; lists of Maori informants; copies of questions sent to various informants; notes on incidents involving Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Toa and Te Ati Awa, including their migrations to Wellington, and on place names in the greater Wellington area; rough indexes to notes; waiata and haka; whakapapa of Ngati Raukawa, Mahu and Taewa and Ngati Ira and Whanganui notes from his 1895 field trip. Includes a long letter from Kerehoma Tuwhawhakia of Kaiwhaiki to 1895 with waiata by Naapea Nganawheuru. Contains waiata from the Ngati Toa-Raukawa tribes from the middle and late 19th century periods including the haka of Upokoiti, the patere of Manomano and the story of Kaihamu, great grandfather of Toa Rangatira. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed listing available in inventory.
Kapiti Island; notes on its geography, history, and flora and fauna
Date: 1876
Reference: MS-1101
Description: Notes taken by an unidentified person on a visit in April 1876 and based on the notes of John O'Meara, a whaler who leased part of the Waiorua block, Kapiti Island in the 1840s. This supplements a fuller account of the flora and fauna by J Buchanan apparently made on the same visit (NZ Times 5 May 1876) Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (12 leaves). Physical Description: Ms (22 cm; ¼ brown morocco, brown buckram)
Apirana Ngata - Papers re Nga Moteatea
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-046
Description: Contains waiata that relate principally to the Ngati Toa, Ngati Tama and Ngati Raukawa tribes. Some of these waiata were later published in "Nga Moteatea". Some of these waiata were originally accompanied by the koauau, played by Paeroa Wineera (nee Tatana). Also contains some Ngati Toa whakapapa. Relationship complexity - See Nga Moteatea I-IV Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.
Maori notebook (vol 34)
Date: [1956-1957]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-35
Description: Comprises notes on sites and artifacts of Waikanae-Paekakariki area (with map); map, Manawatu River from Longburn Bridge to Oroua confluence; genealogies, no 1, relationaship of Muaupoko to Rangitane, no 2, the branching out of sub-tribes from Rangitane, supplied by Wiremu K Te Awe Awe per G Allwright; map, visit to old Maori site on dune belt, Rangitikei River; artifacts from Papaitonga-Hokio sector of dune-belt (with map); on the archaeology of Kaitaia-Ahipara, North Auckland (with maps); small stone bowling disc, Makara Arrangement: Notebook no 34 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).
H T Whatahoro Jury - Whakapapa and note book
Date: n d
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-110A
Description: Contains narratives about Maori ancestors living at Hawaiki, including Manaia and Tamatea, and the reasons that they migrated to New Zealand; also includes narrative about various conflicts in New Zealand involving tribes on the south-eastern seaboard of the North Island, and migrations that led to conflicts, or resulted from them; also contains related waiata and haka. Also contains the story about Ngati Tama, Te Ati Awa invasion of the Wairarapa district, including accounts of the battle of Te Tarata in 1829, the capture of Metapere Te Waipunaahau (Ngati Toa) by the Wairarapa tribes, the capture of Te Uamairangi and Te Kakapi-o-te-Rangi, and subsequent peace making at Pito-one (Petone) between Te Ati Awa and Wairarapa. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss
H T Whatahoro Jury - Minute book
Date: 1907
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B037
Description: Contains minutes from the sitting of the Native Land Court at Wellington, with details of successions, subdivisions, leases, removal of restrictions, whakapapa - much of which relates to the Ngati Raukawa tribe and the Ngati Toa occupation of Porirua with special reference to Pikauterangi; also contains biographical notes about Taitoko Te Rangihiwinui Weraroa Kingi, and a list of pa, mahinga kai, and urupa belonging to Ngati Hautumoana Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Marbled boards, 33 cm., vol numbered 22
H T Whatahoro Jury - Whakapapa book
Date: ca 1897-1909
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-123
Description: Contains whakapapa from Whanganui, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Kahungunu, Ngai Tara and Kai Tahu in particular; also contains detailed information about the Takitimu canoe, lists of Whanganui hapu, notes about the birth dates of Hemi Taitea's children; there are also notes about conflicts between Kai Tahu hapu, and a letter to Hare Hongi from Huru Moana about Maori cosmology Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume). Physical Description: Holograph (Black exercise book)
Maori notebook (vol 49)
Date: [1960-1963]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-50
Description: Comprises notes; letter, Michael Hitchings to Adkin re results of Hadfield Church excavation; map, Paraparaumu to Waimeha Stream; brief genealogy of Te Rangihiroa; profile, the tino of Rikiorangi site from early map; aerial photograph, Paraparaumu area; map, Paraparaumu Beach area with emendment of Te Uruhi pa site...disinterred presumed Hadfield's church; photograph and diagram of part of Kenakena site...Hadfield's church; photograph with numbered Maori place-names and sites, Porirua Harbour; map, central area, Porirua Harbour, with numbered Maori place-names and sites; draft and final map, head of Pauatahanui Arm showing recent geomorphological changes Arrangement: Notebook no 49 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).
Miscellaneous letters and papers re Maori Land transactions
Date: 1875-1896
From: Buller, Walter Lawry (Sir), 1838-1906 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0048-03
Description: Includes a list of names in Waotu South, notes on Ngatiapa iwi, notes in Maori re land at Whangaehu and miscellaneous letters and telegrams. Also comprises notes on the Taitapu Block (Nelson) and the Taupo Block (Plimmerton) as well as various items regarding land in Otaki with accompanying list of Ngati Raukawa chiefs. Includes several handwritten receipts from original Maori sellers.
Legal files
Date: 1907
From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers
Reference: 73-128-016
Description: Identified persons and firms entered under Name; also includes receipts and brief legal letters with subjects unidentified. Also letter from Foxton (writer unidentified) re inclusion of Moutoa portion of the Manawatu County in Otaki, detailed letter re false accusation of Miss Durling at Thomas McGlynn, note re subpoena, Major and Sinclair v Harnett, telegram from Treadwell in Wanganui to Field in Wellington re Churton field, letters from Walter [?] Seshe of Christchurch and the Lyttelton Times Office re financial assistance Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Elsdon Best - Notebook vol 1
Date: 1892-1894
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-021
Description: Informants and contents listed at the front. Mainly concerns Maori subjects of the Wellington district and provincial area, as well as some notes on Asian languages. Included are notes by S P Smith, and letters to Smith from Gudgeon. Also contains information on Maori circumcision practices as well as Maori customary concepts and whakapapa specific to the Kurahaupo and Takitimu Waka traditions. Includes comprehensive account of the Ngati Toa - Ati Awa including Puketapu and Ngati Maru - migration to the Kapiti Coast. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Notebook relating to Kapiti Island and Te Rauparaha
Date: 1905
From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers
Reference: MSX-9077
Description: Notebook containing research notes relating to Kapiti Island and Te Rauparaha. Includes moteatea including 'Tera te tai o Kawhia' as well as detailed notes about place names on the island and its birdlife and history. Language - Contains some Maori content, particularly moteatea and place names. Arrangement: 53 in original listing Quantity: 1 volume(s). Contains some sketches in ink mainly relating to places on Kapiti Island.
Native Land Purchase Commissioner - Papers
Date: 1860-1864
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0006
Description: Contains correspondence with regard to the purchase of Maori land in Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa in particular, and in Porirua to a lesser extent; some of the correspondence relates to the addressing of Maori grievances arising from the sales; also contains some correspondence about the conditions of McLean's employment and his role as a provincial politician Includes minutes of meeting held at Takapuwahia (26 Sep 1861) concerning charges brought against W N Searancke by Te Kakakura Wi Parata over a Ngati Toa land dispute. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Secretary, Native Department - Administration of native affairs
Date: 1856-1859
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0009
Description: Included in this folder is a paper by McLean that his biographer, Ray Fargher, describes as McLean's 'only comprehensive statement on land purchase policy'. The folder also includes information about the battle of Te Kuititanga, 1839. Quantity: 1 folder(s).