Places

Date: 1845

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-079-031

Description: View of a pa with strengthened palisade walls, with musket-holes around the base, with fenced in potato plantations in front and to the right in the middle distance, with several people working in the plantations. A Maori man in the foreground is clad in a European shirt and Maori skirt and is smoking a pipe and there are several other people in the foreground. To the right of a path is a swampy area with fern or bracken and mangroves. Probably Tamati Waka Nene's pa at Okaihou. (Information from Chris Pugsley, military historian, 1995) Removed from Bridge/Williams sketchbook (E-320) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink; Verso - title in pencil in the hand of Cyprian Bridge. Barely visible under scraped out later backing board. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with scraping out 228 x 302 mm

Date: 1845 - 1847

By: Williams, John, -1905?; Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-079-017

Description: A European male, thought to be Joel Samuel Polack, facing three Maori men, one gesturing with two large woven kits of potatoes at his feet, another with potatoes on his back, the third holding a tethered pig. In the background is a curved bay, probably Kororareka (Russell) with tents and buildings visible and a canoe pulled up on the shore. Almost identical to, and possibly copied from a sketch by Cyprian Bridge entitled Maoris bartering pigs and potatoes ca 1845, (neg 52118 1/2) held in a private collection. Other Titles - Maoris bartering pigs and potatoes Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink & wash 260 x 360 mm

Date: 1845

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-079-004

Description: The British attack on Kapotai Pa, Waikare Inlet, Bay of Islands. Several armed redcoats by a clump of bushes in the foreground, other soldiers and "friendly" Maori firing from behind a line of bushes in the middle distance towards the fenced pa site set against hills. A European house outside the fencing on the right has other Maori around it. This attack took place in the Omapere area, a week after the attack on Puketutu Pa. Kapotai Pa was on one of the head creeks of the Waikare Inlet. Bridge organised a boat expedition to Kapotai Pa and burned the pa while the friendly Maori, under Tamati Waka Nene, fought the Kapotai in the bush. (Information from James Cowan's "The New Zealand Wars" (1922), p.45, where this image is reproduced. Inscriptions: Recto - [title in Bridge's hand and] Cyp.Bridge fecit [in pencil] cf A-079-025, John Williams' pastel sketch of the same view, possibly the field sketch, while Bridge's watercolour is more likely to be worked up from Williams' view. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white with scratching out 187 x 258 mm