Places

Date: [1930-1963]

By: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964

Reference: MS-Papers-6061

Description: Comprises 63 notebooks of Adkin's ethnological notes on Maori place-names, maps, diagrams and drawings of artefacts and archaeological sites throughout New Zealand although concentrating on the Horowhenua, Wellington and Wairarapa regions. The early notebooks contain material for his book, `Horowhenua', the later for `The Great harbour of Tara' (1959). The notebooks also contain his preliminary or completed drafts which he recopied for all his various papers published in the `Journal of the Polynesian Society'. One volume is of genealogies, and there are also two index volumes to the series, `Index to recording books of Maori lore, place-names, artefacts, etc' for vols 1-50 and 51-63. Most of the volumes have inserted material and loose notes and papers. Adkin included on his maps the viewpoints for slides taken during expeditions, tours and excavations A great deal of the Maori content in these volumes is focused on, but not restricted to, the tribes of the greater Kapiti-Horowhenua-Rangitikei districts. This includes the Ngati Ira and Ngai Tara; Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa; Muaupoko and Rangitane; and the Waitaha peoples who Adkin believed occupied these districts prior to the tribes listed above. There is a great deal of documentation about archaeological material found within (and outside) these districts with supporting maps, sketches and notes which often disclose information about where Maori artefacts and human remains where found, their particular characteristics, who found them etc. These papers also include the use of whakapapa. Accompanying material - Letter from donor describing background to collection; bibliography compiled by donor, and `A Bibliography of Wellington geology' by J G Begg, C Mazengarb and R G Zucchetto (1994) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Please check catalogue for further Adkin collections, and inventory Relationship complexity - See also other GL Adkin collections MS-Papers-0261 (194 folders), and Micro-MS-0600 (12 microfilm reels). Arrangement: The notebooks are numbered according to Adkin's method. All archaeological finds have precise accompanying drawings which have not been noted in scope and contents although all maps have been. Donor, Ian Keyes, has added annotations relating to publication of some reports. Quantity: 65 folder(s) (64 vols in folders; 2 vols in case folder). 0.70 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs with illustrations Provenance: Following Adkin's death in 1964 much of his papers went to the National Museum of New Zealand and the Alexander Turnbull Library. Mrs Adkin had retained Adkin's geological and ethnological notebooks and at a later date the former went to the New Zealand Geological Survey (now IGNIS) and the ethnological notebooks to Ian Keyes. The colour slides are believed to be in the possession of Dr T Barrow, Hawaii. The notebooks are extensively illustrated with professional and detailed maps, diagrams, drawings of Maori artefacts and related material

Date: [ca 1977]

From: Cairns, Keith Raymond 1925-1987 : Research papers relating to the Wairarapa, particularly archaeology and Maori history

Reference: MSO-Papers-6478

Description: Whakapapa charts of various Wairarapa hapu and people Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1960

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-47

Description: Comprises map of Fitzroy Bay, Baring Head, showing topographic features and former native sites; sketch plan, Parangarehu kainga site, Fitzroy Bay; visit to Glendower Station, Ponatahi Rd, Carterton, to inspect J M Jury's ethnological collection, especially his Palliser Bay artefacts; map, excursion to Flat Point, eastern Wairarapa; map, Flat Point-Glenburn Coast and hinterland, east Wairarapa showing archaeological sites and other data, including profile of coastal plain; sketch plan of sites on the Arawhata Stream; sketch profiles of Pukehuiake pa, Whatipu Stream and debouchure of Huatokitoki Stream; sketch profile of Pawharetotara pa site, Waikekeno Stream; osteological features characteristic of and distinguishing between Polynesia and European peoples; Maori lore of the Otaki-Paraparaumu sector of the coastal area of western Wellington (a) Maori place-names, sites and geomorphic background of the Otaki Te Horo portion of the coastal lowland; sections of same; map, Rangiuru Creek to Paraparaumu Beach; Arrangement: Notebook no 46 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-033

Description: The prologue introduces Albert Dunstall and Hannah Hadfield as first settlers into Newman, Wairarapa, Wellington Province. Part 1 explains their individual reasons for emigration to New Zealand and their coming to Newman. Part 2 tells of their children, specifically Francis Albert and his wife Ilma Lowry and their three children, Cedric and his wife Thelma with their children, and Marion and Monette. Also included is information about the Hadfield and Hall families in Glossop, Derbyshire, and the Dunstalls in Eastdean and Friston, Sussex. Family trees included Publication - Published in `Our lesser stars' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Photographs and maps

Date: 1891

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

Reference: MSY-4897

Description: Report from the AJHR 1891, Session II, G-4, by Mackay Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1943

By: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944

Reference: qMS-1929

Description: Contains notes dictated to G.C. Heron in 1943 shortly before Stowell's death about Maori history, tribal migrations and demography, prominent iwi figures, whakapapa, New Zealand flora and fauna and also Maori science Quantity: 1 volume(s) (11 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (26 cm; ¼ grey cloth)