Places

Date: 1844 - 1847

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: PUBL-0014-37

Description: A seated Maori couple with a background of a carved whare. The man, To Ngaporutu has a moko and is wearing a greenstone earring and a flax leaf rain cloak. His wife, seated on his right, is in a woven flax korowai cloak and has an albatross feather ear adornment. She has a chin moko and crosses marked on her cheek and forehead. The pair were residents of the Waitomo area, with Rihe coming from the Wanganui area. Both were recent converts to Christianity. On the right side, another seated man and woman, of Waikato, ther man "Ngawhea" from the Kawhia area had not been converted to Christianity; the woman, Nga Miho was a 'celebrated priestess, and wife of Rangitautaea, the old chief of Ahuahu, who was wounded at Taranaki'. The woman is wearing a blanket, the man a flax rain cloak. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844. According to Angas's text, Nga Miho means 'the teeth'. However the usual Maori word for teeth is niho. Other Titles - Ngati Maniapoto Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm

Date: 1824 - 1827

By: Turner, Nathaniel (Rev), 1793-1864; Methodist Missionary Society

Reference: B-121-023

Description: A bush-clad hilly area with the Kaeo River winding through towards Whangaroa Harbour (out of sight to the right). In the middle ground is a low rise with the mission station on top, with five buildings and a flagpole carrying the Union Jack. The whole area is cleared and fenced with well-established gardens and fields, with crops and fruit trees. There are cows grazing in a field to the left and several whare and a food platform with a standing and a seated Maori on the far left. In the foreground, inside an enclosure with a low fence, are another standing and a seated Maori man, four more whare and two more food platforms. The view is probably taken from the lower slopes of Pohue, a terraced conical pa site near the mission station A letter accompanies the drawing, signed by Nathaniel Turner, describing the scene and the use made of the various buildings. Wesleydale station was founded in June 1823 by Rev'd Samuel Leigh and Rev'd William White. Nathaniel Turner and John Hobbs joined them several months later, when Leigh returned to New South Wales, because of his poor health. On January 15 1827, Maori attacked the station and burned it to the ground. The suggested dating of this work is because the station looks well-established. It is most likely to be shown in 1825 or 1826. Accompanying letter: To the Secretaries of the Wesleyan Missionary Society ... London: The long Building at the back is a Rush House, 45 feet by 12 - 27 of which is a Schoolroom, the remainder which is in two rooms is occupied by Luke. The House below is our Dwelling the main building of which is 26 by 13, with a Skilling or Leanto at the back 10 feet wide and another at the Southern end 8 feet. The Building to the right on the same level contains three apartments, two below and one above. The one above serves as a Store for Native Provisions etc etc. The one below it is principly occupied by the Native Girls. The Skilling or Leanto is the Carpenters Shop. The tall building above is the Barn and the small one to the right of it is the Cow House which is Rush and Logs. The one down the Bank below is the Boat House, built of Rush. The Garden and young Orchard are within the inner fence below the House. The Wheat Field is to the left and below that. That below and to the left where the Cattle are seen is a Flat of uncultivated ground coverd with small brush wood. The enclosures below are the Native Plantations or Kumera Grounds. The river runs in the front and to the right and left in a very Serpentine manner. The Foreground is part of a Native Village. The principle village where the Pa is, which could not be included is just to the left. The Hills immediately at the back are barren, but those in the distance are covered with fine Timber, Kaudi etc etc. The view of the Settlement does not nearly equal the view in richness of Scenery as from the Settlement. Nath.l Turner. "Luke" referred to in Turner's letter was Luke Ward, an English servant who assisted on the station, with his wife. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on wove paper 242 x 381 mm (irreg.) Provenance: Collection of the Methodist Missionary Society.

Date: 1855 - 1884

From: Church Missionary Gleaner for 1884.

Reference: PUBL-0006-1884-098

Description: Two Maori canoes laden with people, including Grace and his wife, reaching the shore, with crowds welcoming them. Part of a pa is visible on the top of a hill on the right. One man is standing in the Grace's canoe and waving his arms and his paddle. Physical Description: Wood engraving 120 x 200 mm

Date: 1884 - 1851

From: Church Missionary Gleaner for 1884.

Reference: PUBL-0006-1884-022

Description: A scene near Hauraki, 9 April 1851, showing Archdeacon Brown with members of the Tauranga tribes, an orator in the centre, gesturing with an upraised left arm, a spear in his right hand, and another Church Missionary Society missionary negotiating for local tribes. A stream runs between the two groups. First published in the Church Missionary Gleaner, No. 5, May 1852, p. 49. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) wood engraving. Physical Description: Wood engraving 100 x 140 mm

Date: 1814 - 1964

By: Morgan, Jack, active 1961-1966; Weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: B-077-002

Description: Samuel Marsden behind a makeshift pulpit, with the Bible, preaching to a group of Maori and Europeans, with a bay behind him on the left, with canoes and a European ship (the Active), and on the right Rangihoua, a hilltop pa. The Maori chief Ruatara is standing in uniform to the right of Marsden and in the left foreground is Korokoro, dressed in the regimental uniform given him by Governor Maquarie of New South Wales. This reconstruction was painted to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1st Christian sermon in New Zealand, and was commissioned to be published in the Weekly News, Auckland, December 16th 1964 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 380 x 280 mm

Date: 1849

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-030-003

Description: The Rev Thomas Chapman officiating right of centre, bald-headed and wearing spectacles, with a crowd of English and Maori spectators, around the reclining aged chief Te Ngahue, who was baptised on his deathbed. Te Ariki was on Tarawera Lake. Sir George Grey is probably the standing figure in profile at Te Ngahue's feet while the smaller dark man standing behind him with handlebar moustache and side whiskers is likely to be Grey's secretary, John Jermyn Symonds An accompanying MS note by A H Turnbull attributes this sketch to Sir George Grey, but B30/8, a tinted wood engraving after this sketch, says that "Sir George Grey... was so much impressed by the scene that he had a drawing of it made".. Turnbull's attribution has obviously been taken from the Church Missionary Gleaner, 1884, p. 18 which says that Grey "made a sketch of on the spot.", The sketch was initially reproduced as a wood engraving in the Church Missionary Intelligencer, March 1851, opp. p. 70, with descriptive text of the event on p. 71. See: Journal of an expedition overland from Auckland to Taranaki ...[by George Sisson Cooper] p. 222-226 for a description of this event. Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil in the hand of Alexander Turnbull, with an attribution to Sir George Grey. A note in another hand suggests that the artist is Cuthbert Clarke. There is also another faint sketch on the verso, showing a European dwelling or similar structure, a distinctive conical hill with fencing at its base in the centre and possibly a cow in the foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 251 x 338 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull from Angus and Robertson, Sydney, April 1917 (although described as 'a print' in the correspondence of 23 Jan and 12 April 1917).

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: A-286-004

Description: Head and shoulders profile portrait of Iwikau, a Maori man, from Wakapuaka pa, near Nelson Iwikau's wife, Hingatu, and child are shown in another portrait in this group (A-286-005) See: Minson, Marian. Art as evidence : the enigma of the Nelson Maori portraits. In: Turnbull Library record, vo.23, no.1 May 1990, p.47-67 for further information. Iwikau is likely to have been converted by the Rev. Charles Reay of Nelson Other Titles - Iwikau. Wakapuaka. Remarkable for his piety. 1843? Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title cf almost identical portrait in Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass. (Coates, I. Remarkable for his piety...). Library has file print Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 257 x 192 mm Provenance: Part of a house sale in Boston, purchased by New York dealer, then by Auckland dealer. Transfers: One of 19 portraits (A-286-1 to 19).