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[Rhodes, Joseph] 1826-1905 :Napier Plains. Omaranui [sic] Pah. Last fight with natives....
Date: 1866
By: Rhodes, Joseph, 1826-1905; Rhodes, Beatrice, active 1978
Reference: A-159-030
Description: View of the pa and hills in the distance. Other Titles - Omarunui Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Napier plains, Omaranui pah. / Last fight with natives. / Hawke's Bay.; Recto - bottom centre - [Identifies] River Ngararuru [sic]; approach of main body; dry bed of river; native allies; my company.; Verso - [Journal notes outlining Waikato-Tauranga wars and Rewi's part in them.] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 190 x 230 mm
[Rhodes, Joseph], 1826-1905 :A. Alexander's store, Ahuriri. [1850s?]
Date: 1850 - 1859
By: Rhodes, Joseph, 1826-1905; Rhodes, Beatrice, active 1978
Reference: A-159-031
Description: View of bay with canoes and boats, buildings and pa on shore, with Ahuriri Bluff in background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - A. Alexander's store. Ahuriri.; Verso - [Journal notes describing march from Napier to Waipukurau.] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 188 x 228 mm
[Rhodes, Joseph] 1826-1905 :Ahuriri harbour and roadstead. [1850s]
Date: 1850 - 1859
By: Rhodes, Joseph, 1826-1905; Rhodes, Beatrice, active 1978
Reference: A-159-033
Description: Looking downwards in a northerly direction from Bluff Hill, showing Port Ahuriri in the earliest days of European settlement. A Maori pa or kainga is on a small island immediately below, inside the opening to Ahuriri Spit. Three low dwellings, a fire, and three people are inside a palisade on the island, and canoes with a fourth person are on the right. There is a small settlement on Ahuriri spit with one larger house, canoes pulled up outside, half-a-dozen smaller houses and a fishing boat on shore. The hills of northern Hawkes Bay are in the background This seems to be a very early view, since B-004-009, a similar view dated 1860, shows many more buildings. Likely to be a view from the artist's own home, Milton Grange Estate, one of the earliest homes and farms on top of Bluff Hill, Napier Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Ahuriri harbour and roadstead. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 187 x 228 mm