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Date: [1960-1961]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-53

Description: Comprises report on quadrilateral adze with tang reduction; discovery of canoe hull (waka ama) of form requiring an outrigger attachment, Te Horo; timetable and background notes to tour of Hawke's Bay; notes; sketch of Napier harbour from 1870 map; drawing of small pataka and trig station profile; street map of Napier, with route noted; photgraphs of group (identified); extended genealogy, Tainui and Takitimu canoes to David Winterburn; the magnificent Winterburn adze; squat mere-like patu from Makurerua-Linton area; map, Horowhenua-Manawatu area showing localities of recent archaeological and Maori lore finds, the Makurerua-Linton adze and the Paretoa old burial place Also photographs of Adkin, map showing Maori sites and place-names of the Heretaunga Plains, ca 1850 (from Colenso); and photographs of the Makurerua-Linton patu Arrangement: Notebook no 52 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1962]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-56

Description: Contents comprise report on the Ngatimamoe adze, north Wairarapa, from K R Cairns; tanged adze from Pukeatua ridge, Lower Hutt, with map; memoranda of tape recordings and other matters with J Brydon Speedy; excavations of a promontory pa site on south head of Owhariu Bay, Wellington, with profile and maps; notes on the archaeology of Waikaretu River, Raglan-Port Waikato coast, with maps; calva (skull cap), Waikaretu; lower mandible, Waikaretu; revered hogback adze, north Waikanae Arrangement: Notebook no 55 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

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: [1944]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-16

Description: Contents comprise lower course of Hokio Stream and vicinity; site of Kohitane clearing and of adze finds, Heatherlea, Levin; Waitaha adzes, types IVC, IVB, Heatherlea, Levin and IVB from Pakakutu pa site, Otaki; adzes, types IIA, IIIB, from Lindsay Road and Roslyn roads areas, Levin; data of skull from NB1, Otororoa dune-ridge, Horowhenua; adze-like chisel, type IIB, Pakatutu pa site, Otaki; adze, type IVB with pecularity, from Plimmerton (R A Prouse); canoe paddle with Manaia-head terminal, Porotawhao; Waitaha adze, type IVA from eastern edge Weraroa Cl, Levin and type IVB, Raumatangi Block, Horowhenua; data of problematical stone from northern Hawke's Bay. Note by Adkin: adze types are according to present writer's scheme of classification (see vol 17 of present series). Cover also has note, `adze types'. Arrangement: Notebook no 13 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1963

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-62

Description: Comprises report on various archaeological finds, including adzes and fish hooks, at the Paremata site, Porirua Harbour; with longitudinal section giving geomorphology, ethnology and archaeology of the site; plan of site showing location of adzes; map showing some (not all) former whaling stations in the Porirua - Kapiti region. Arrangement: Notebook no 61 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1962]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-59

Description: Comprises reports on the disinterment of native human skeletons at Paraparaumu Beach township from excavation of sand-dune formation near the post office (diagrams of skulls) (with map, profile and photographs); Te Ika-a-maru and Ohau bays area of western Wellington - further ethnological features and note on drift objects of this coast; groups of unusually- placed storage pits and a large type whakamate on the Kenakena coastal salient...Paraparaumu Beach (with map); memo of human skull, probably late tribal Maori age, from old fixed dunes immediately west of Te Horo; remarkable Waitaha-Ngatimamoe hybrid adze in blackstone from Tiakitahuna, Palmerston North Arrangement: Notebook no 58 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1960

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-48

Description: Comprises article on the moa hunter as artist and trapper by Hugh S McCully with photographs and letter; maps and notes showing location of middens and adze found at Waikanae; plan of meeting house, Waiwhetu, `Arohanui-ki-te-tangata'; photograph of Wikitoria Puketapu with carved figure; map showing route of excursion around Pauatahanui arm of Porirua Harbour; map, excursion, Paekakariki; sketch plan and prfile, pa-citadel site, Paekakariki; discussion of the term, `Papa-kainga'; photograph and sketch of ancient outrigger float from Pinfold's drained swamp, Soldiers Road, Te Horo, photography and further drawings Arrangement: Notebook no 47 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1962]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-57

Description: Contents comprise reports on find-spots and data of artefacts, historic sites of the greater Waikanae area, including a record of recent finds between Te Horo and Waikanae to May 1962, including genealogy (with map); thick squat patu from Mangaroa pa, Richard Rolston's collection; unexpected archaeological discoveries, a new type of patu from Horowhenua and a native burial, Welllington, photographs, map and diagrams; selected memoranda from 10th science congress (1962) Arrangement: Notebook no 56 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).