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Manuscript

Notebook (vol 22)

Date: [1940-1950]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-23

Description: Contents comprise notes on adze types from Makorokio Stream, Ohau, and Poroporo Ridge; ancient rock paintings; map of Weka Pass; on Maerewhenua, a name with six variants; on the rediscovery of the kohakatakahea; data from P J Burstall; of a visit to Maketu; adzes from Westland, Moutapu Bay and Amuri Bluff (with maps); and other notes Arrangement: Notebook no 22 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

Maori notebook (vol 24)

Date: [1950-1952]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-25

Description: Comprises notes on Maori place-names and sites of past and present kainga, Bay of Plenty (with map); of Tauranga Harbour, Mt Maunganui, Whakatane and Maketu and Waihi estuaries (with maps); section of whalebone object; letter, Bryce Wood to Adkin (1953); moa-bone with cuts, Roxburgh; Solomon Islands adzes; adzes from Auckland and Poroutawhao; data from Moawhango by R A L Batley (with map) Arrangement: Notebook no 24 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

Maori place-names and lore (vol 37)

Date: [1958]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-38

Description: Comprises notes on large stone agricultural tool from Rangiauria (Pitt Island), Chathams; Chatham Islands bibliography; map, Chatham Islands; map, route of Field excursion, Wanganui district; Maori sites and place-names, Wanganui River (with map); adzes, melanesoid, owned by A C Robertson, Papaiti; and two adzes from San Cristobal Island, Solomon Islands Arrangement: Notebook no 37 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

Maori notebook (vol 36)

Date: [1957-1958]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-37

Description: Comprises notes on the earliest ethnographic map of part of the Wellington area (with map); maps, Maori pa sites, Te Awamutu area; map, Heathcote-Sumner area, showing location of Moa-bone Point Cave; anomalous adze; note and drawing by A Formison; map, Maori sites, Owhariu Bay; paper by Adkin, date and culture of the earliest people of the North Island; Maori place-names of Te Korokoro-Te Tuara-whati-o-Te mana area, Hutt Valley (with map); massve adze, from Te Kaha Point, Bay of Plenty; Arrangement: Notebook no 36 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

Maori notebook (vol 35)

Date: [1957]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-36

Description: Comprises notes on old occupation site at Kau Bay, Pt Halswell, Wellington Harbour (with maps); map of the Greytown area; map, pa near mouth of Waitotara River; map, Ohawe Village, Waingongoro River; Melanesian greenstone adze, Bethune's sale; new type of patu from Western Marlborough Sounds (with map); melanezoid adze; Maori place-names of Croisilles Harbour, Marlborough Sounds (with map); a series of maps of the NZ Company's 1st general survey, Wellington district; map, native garden, on Owhariu Stream Arrangement: Notebook no 35 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

Maori notebook (vol 33)

Date: [1955-1956]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-34

Description: Comprises notes on and possible implications of, a Dolichocephalic human skull, Kaingaroa, including carvings (with maps); notes on Maori lore and sites made on a tour to Hamilton, Tirau, Raglan, Thames and the New Plymouth-Rahotu area, western Taranaki (Dec 1955-Jan 1956) (with map); compilation of old pa and kainga and of remaining occupied kainga, Waitara-Rahotu area, Taranaki (with map); Awakino-Mokau-Mohakatino area, with map showing old pa, kainga, middens etc; former pa of the coastal district, Onaero-Mimi area, north Taranaki; plan of Te Tiki-o-te-Ihingarangi positions; notes on Lake Taupo (with map); plan of part of central Waikato showing Maori sites and data of Maori war; letter, Wally N re Coromandel workshop find Arrangement: Notebook no 33 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

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).

Manuscript

Maori notebook (vol 38)

Date: [1958]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-39

Description: Comprises notes on three Wairarapa adzes; memoranda of some stone adzes from the Wellington city area; adze from site just north of Chelmsford St, Wellington; an ethnological weekend at Palmerston North and Wanganui; large adze with scroll on poll, Tangoio; various adzes; Aitutaki adze; adze found by W D Waugh, north Cape Turnagain (with map); Arrangement: Notebook no 33 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

Maori place-names and sites (vol 30)

Date: [1952-1953]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-31

Description: Comprises detailed hand drawn Maori maps giving place-names and sites of Wellington Harbour and environs; Miramar Peninsula; Tarakena Bay fortified positions; Island Bay-Oriental Bay area; Karori-Ngaio area; Lambton-Kaiwharawhara area; Wellington peninsular to Colonial Knob; Hutt Valley (1840 and 1852); Motukairangi Island (ca 1400); and Hutt Valley, lower part with all Maori names Arrangement: Notebook no 30 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

Maori notebook (vol 41)

Date: 1958-1959

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-42

Description: Comprises maps (and some other illustrations) of the South Island, from Oamaru to the Clutha River; detailed map of Waikouaiti-Karitane area showing former Maori place-names and postcard of Moeraki Boulders; Potato Point to Seal Point showing Otago Harbour; Hokonui-Nugget Pt to Waiau River with sketch of Devil's Armchair peak, Blenheim; Bluff Harbour with postcards with notes re viewpoints of colour slides Arrangement: Notebook no 41 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

Maori notebook (vol 40)

Date: 1959

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-41

Description: Comprises maps of various parts of the South Island, (1) Cook Strait crossing by transport plane and Cloudy Bay (with southern part of Wellington region); (2) Wairau Bar moa-hunter site; Cloudy Bay, Marlborough Sounds and down to Clarence River; Lake Grassmere; Washdyke to the Ashley River; Waimakariri River to Hinds River, including Banks Peninsula; Rangitata River to Waitaki River, including headwaters; and photograph of hydro works, Waitaki River Arrangement: Notebook no 40 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

Notes re Maori history - a money ledger, an interview, an article, an historical accoun...

Date: [1930-1950]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-039

Description: Diagram of spur pa at Pahaoa, south of the Cameron homestead; note from Paneta Otene re Orongorongo (1945); transcripts from Maori Land Court minute books, including Wanganui (1938 and 1939); `The Maori and the forest' by Elsdon Best; page of galley proof, `The Arawa' by W J Phillips; page of tattooed heads by Robley; `The Development of Maori culture since the advent of the pakeha' by McEwen, a paper read at the Sixth Science Congress of the Royal Society of New Zealand; `Carved stone figure from North Auckland' and `Carved stone head from North Auckland' (same account); `Grotesque figures' (with illustrations); statement of account, probably relating to carving (1933-1935) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs Printed matter Typescripts A sketch of a Maori Pa site, four tattooed Maori heads, carved prow and stern waka carvings.

Manuscript

Paraparaumu and Raumati Beach townships

Date: 1950-1951

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-268/09

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Maori notebook (vol 32)

Date: [1955-1956]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-33

Description: Comprises further notes on former occupation and archaeology of the country east of Wellington Harbour (with maps); bone fish-hook shank and pumice net float, Wellington; adze with longitudinally ridged anterior surface; nose stone, Tirau, Central Waikato; old Maori sites at Ohau and Te Ika-a-Maru Bays, south-west Wellington (with map); some notes on the stone walls at Waikaretu by C H Hunt, Raglan (with map); Arrangement: Notebook no 32 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

Maori notebook (vol 27)

Date: [1954-1955]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-28

Description: Contents comprise notes on adzes found at Ohau Bay (Wellington); Waikanae, McCrae's Flat (Central Otago), Dargaville and Horowhenua; a greenstone spike 12" in length found at Arapawa Island (with map and genealogy of the Heberley family); map showing geographical features and the position of Maori Pa sites and kainga of central Wellington; map showing distribution of type IV adzes (Waitaha culture) of western Wellington from Palliser Bay to Foxton; adze found at McCrae's flat Otago. Arrangement: Notebook no 27 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

Maori place-names of New Zealand (vol 21)

Date: [1950-1957]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-22

Description: Contents comprise notes on adzes and stone bowling-disk from D'Urville Island; lunate pendant amulet from Foveaux Strait coast; whalebone patu from Horowhenua; observations on Sandhill point jaw; ethnological collection from Sandhill Point, Te Waewae Bay, Southland; adze, Sandhill Point; and other notes Arrangement: Notebook no 21 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

Maori notebook (vol 39)

Date: 1958-1959

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-40

Description: Comprises notes on Maori lore and ethnology at Palmerston North and Pohangina Valley (visit), with plan showing the Te Ahuaturanga or upper Manawatu, the Oroua and the Awahou blocks, Manawatu (1860); adzes from Palmerston North; photographs, longitudinal profile of old pa and lookup post, Owhariu Bay; map of south coast of Wellington from Pencarrow Head to mouth of Wainuiomata River; profile and sketch plan, uplifted coastal strip, Fitzroy Bay; photographs of Baring Head with notes Arrangement: Notebook no 39 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

Notebook (vol 23)

Date: [1950-1953]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-24

Description: Contents comprise notes on middens, Porirua Harbour (including map); alternative schemes of the populating of NZ; map of Maori sites, Waikanae- Paraparaumu-Paekakariki; selected items from P Beckett's collection; map showing Waitaha sites; nephrite heimatau from L Horowhenua; Hutt Valley midden; and other notes Arrangement: Notebook no 23 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

Maori notebook (vol 26)

Date: [1940-1953]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-27

Description: Contents comprise notes on D'Urville Island artefacts including watercolour by E M A of a greenstone chisel from Greville Harbour (D'Urville Is.), all from collection of A C O'Connor; stone sinker from Waitotara; map of Riversdale Rd, Avondale with notes re Maori midden; adze from Forest Lakes near Manakau with map; adze from Pirinoa, Wairarapa with map; and notes on greenstone amulet, Heatherlea, Levin Arrangement: Notebook no 26 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

Maori notebook (vol 31)

Date: [1955-1956]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-32

Description: Comprises reports on limestone adze from Kapowairua Stream, Hooper Point, Spirits Bay; adze, Whangape; skull, L Horowhenua; stone disc, nr Castlepoint and notes and map on others; Maori place-names of Heretaunga and vicinity, Hawke's Bay with map (1860); slab of rhyolite, Poor Knights; sketch plan of Taylor's Hill, Tamaki River; disc form stone net sinker, Bethune's sale; and banded and spotted stones Arrangement: Notebook no 32 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

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