Places

Date: [1938-1972]

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-6/08

Description: Scant notes mainly relating to Maori vocabulary surrounding such themes as such as `Weapons', `Barter', 'Early Maori and European influence' including a Maori name for Cook 'Te Paia' owing to circumstance of his calling 'fire' at Poverty Bay. Language - Some scant records relating to Maori vocabulary Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1822 - 1827

By: Herd, James (Captain), active 1821-1830

Reference: MapColl-832.11aj/1822-27/Acc.384

Description: 1st map shows the Hokianga Harbour and its entrance, showing soundings, high water marks, Maori villages (6 pa sites ), 'residence of Tuaterra's brother', positions of several forests, an area named 'New Zealand Company's land'. Two coastal profiles show the approach to the harbour from different distances for easy recognition. 2nd map shows Port Pegasus, Stewart Island with coastline, soundings and some placenames 3rd map is of the Wellington Harbour and shows soundings, some interior features such as Burnham Water and areas of flax growth. Note about the Hutt River (Heretaunga awa): "This river's source is a long distance up the interior. It runs in a constant rapid current towards the sea and is not impeded by the influx of the tide. Altho it rises and falls from four to five feet, we have observed none other of this description in New Zealand." 4th map shows part of the Otago Harbour, with soundings, habitation along shore, areas of sand and flax and sand banks - Inset: Otago, or Port Oxley in New Zealand, 1826, 37 x 40 cm. col. trans. (ncm. col. trans. (neg. 1/2-09321/1/2-022095); Wangenueatera or Port cm. Nicholson, surveyed and drawn in 1826, 25 x 40 cm, col tran. Scale 1: 63 360 ZZealand, 23 x 18 cm. col. No scale (neg. 1/2-092961). 'The coast was seen but not examined by Capt. Cook in 1770. The harbours were discovered by Capt. S Chase of the ship Pegasus in August, 1809, and were surveyed by Mr. W. Stewart of that ship as here represented' as written as a note on insert 'Sketch of the southern port ... Stewart Island'. Quantity: 4 manuscript map(s) on 1 sheet. Physical Description: Ink on linen, coloured, linen backed, sheet 68 x 98 cm.

Date: 1778 - 1784 - 1827 - 1779 - 1833

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Fumagalli, Paolo, 1797-1873; Giulio Ferrario (Firm)

Reference: A-447-012

Description: A view inside a pa or kainga with a group of four Maori standing and seated in the foreground, one man leaning on a taiaha. Two further Maori are seated in conversation on the right. They are in an open flat area, surrounded by low dwellings, with part of a palisade in the background. The view is on Cook's 'Hippah Island' with Motuara Island rising behind to the north, in Queen Charlotte Sound Derived from an engraving after John Webber 'The inside of a hippah in New Zealand' published in Cook, J and J King. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean (London, 1784). The Italian aquatint version is cropped on the right, omitting a further dwelling, fencing and a canoe in the water Inscriptions: Recto - top right - [printed plate number] 69. [Bottom right beneath image, printed etcher's name] Fumagalli f[ecit]. [Bottom right of sheet, in pencil] Neuseeland Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, hand-coloured, 182 x 238 mm (platemark) on sheet 249 x 367 mm Provenance: Purchase: Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, 21 November 2011