Places

Date: 1860 - 1870

Reference: MapColl-832.18hkcmf/1860s/Acc.5104

Description: Map of the fortified Ohinemutu pa site, Rotorua, depicting Captain Main's redoubt. Shows 'Tiki' (carved gateway), stockades (two lines) and ditch surrounding three sides of the site, 'Paepae-mohoao' (old whares), 'Pukaki' (carved gateway), 'Maharo' (Captain Main's redoubt), 'Te Hina-a-Maui' (old kumara gardens), 'Te Pono' (sacred to the god Makawe), 'Hiraua' (covered with houses and kumara gardens), 'Pa-nui-o-marama' (carved gateway) near the Catholic Church; shows the position of '?Parapato'. The fourth side of the site is the Lake Rotorua. This map is comprised of two separate maps overlaid on each other. One is in ink and outlines the traditional positions within the pa site (as well as Captain Main's redoubt). The other is a pencil map depicting roads, paths, a football ground, dwellings, and 'Te Rua o te Manui'. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on dressed linen, scale indeterminable, 32 x 45 cm.

Date: 1871

By: Durand, Godefroy, 1832-; Harral, Horace, active 1862-1876; Graphic (London, England)

Reference: A-466-004

Description: Shows two carved Maori waka, full of paddlers, three men in each canoe standing to encourage their teammates. The front men standing hold weapons; the middle standing men hold flags; and the men at the back steer their canoes. In the background are two cliff headlands each with palisades on top of them Identified as being Tauranga, with Monmouth Redoubt in the background Overleaf, the first section of the printed page of the journal is a piece entitled 'Boat racing in New Zealand', explaining that the illustration is 'an engraving from a sketch by Captain H G Robley, taken at Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty' See also at A-343-034 (a duplicate of which is at E-106-f-045) for a different version of the image, as well as a version of the scene at A-018-006, based on the sketch by Robley, from 'L'univers illustre': 'Course de pirogues dans la Baie de Tauranga (Nouvelle Zelande)' Extended Title - From: The Graphic, April 1, 1871 [p.293 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 225 x 330 mm, on sheet of journal paper 300 x 405 mm

Date: 1864 - 1865

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Episodes of the Great War. 1914-1928

Reference: E-024-f-2-070

Description: A long war canoe or waka taua, with many seated rowers, three men standing at prow, stern and in the centre. Headlands and hills are behind the canoe, with a fort visible on the headland on the left. Robley created several versions of this view, both as ink and wash drawings, and as finished watercolours. According to the text accompanying a watercolour version sold at Sotheby's, London, 15 February 1990, lot 121, the view represents the winning canoe in a race organised at Tauranga, Christmas 1864 (or 1865), by Captain Gilbert Mair, in honour of Robley. The canoe is landing on the Tauranga waterfront, at The Strand, opposite Spring Street. The redoubt visible along the crest of the foreland in the left background is Monmouth Redoubt. Other Titles - Waka taua Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 90 x 138 mm in album

Date: 1861 - 1864

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-064-040/041

Description: Two drawings on one sheet. Puke Hina Hine Redoubt in the distance at the top of a hill. A fortified ditch leading to a higher point with the redoubt in the distance Other Titles - Gate Pa Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: 2 pencil works, on sheet 305 x 392 mm. Provenance: Purchased at auction at Sotheby's, London, in 1988.

Date: 1842

From: Terry, Charles, fl. 1840s :New Zealand, its advantages and prospects as a British colony. London, T & W Boone, 1842

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Gauci, P, active 1842

Reference: PUBL-0076-071

Description: Shows a small pronounced hill, surrounded by a palisade and with a smaller palisade on its top. The surrounding palisade has a tall carved gateway at the right. Attributed to Merrett because of an annotation on the title page of Auckland Public Grey collection copy of this book - "The sketches and likenesses by Merrett". Extended Title - From: Terry, Charles. New Zealand, its advantages and prospects as a British colony. London, T & W Boone, 1842. Opposite p. 71. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 105 x 170 mm

Date: 1864

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: A-033-007

Description: View of the trenches at Gate Pa, Tauranga, looking east, the front of the pa to the left, the rear to the right, after its capture by British forces in April 1864. European soldiers standing guard, two carrying a stretcher in the background, a rifle and parts of the broken palisade lying in the foreground, and wounded and dead Maori men visible in the trenches, including Reweti, in a trench to the right, facing the viewer. A tunnel on the left is marked as a covered way, and a tall pole in the background, on a slant is the flagpole. A low land formation in the background to the left is noted as Maungatapu cliffs with cemetery. Tauranga Harbour can be seen in the background Very similar to A-033-009. Robley made many copies of this view Another such view in Cowan's New Zealand Wars has Robley's additional explanatory text around the outside (neg 10985 1/2). The section along the left, to the left of the trench and inside the palisade is a covered passage leading to rifle pits. The figure lying in the left trench is described as 'dead Maori on blanket'. The figure in the right-hand trench is described as 'bearded wounded Maori' and 'Sticks knocked from the palisade' and 'sticks of palisade scathed by shot', '68th sentry on the higher part of the Pa', as well as 'fallen flagstaff in rear' are noted. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [title]; Recto - bottom left - Front; Recto - bottom right - Rear; Verso - Disposition of fortifications and other features explained in notes on back of sketch, including the following: Looking east. The flagstaff. Maungatapu cliffs [with] cemetery. A covered way. Reweti wounded and another. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash drawing 180 x 255 mm

Date: 1864

Reference: MapColl-832.16hkm/[ca.1864]/Acc.1869

Description: Hand drawn military map of the area from the Waimapu River, including the Tauranga-Rotorua Road to Okauia, Irihanga, Wairoa River and Tauranga Harbour. Includes roads and tracks, one of which is marked as 'my scouting track - there and back close on forty miles'. Gate Pa is marked, settlements, rivers and some roads are named. Scenes of action are marked as crossed swords and some battle sites are named - Gate Pa, Te Ranga, Oropi, Waehi, Whakamarama. Directional arrows point to Rotorua and Okauia. Includes some hachures, sites of clearings and a location of a house. Title partly taken from the pencilled heading, believed to have been added at a later date, and the catalogue card. Pencilled title of map is written along the top edge and on reverse: [Sketch map of country around Gate Pa ... ca. 1864] believed to have been added at a later date. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil, coloured pencil on paper, linen backed, coloured, 19.7 x 21 cm.

Date: 1870 - 1879

Reference: MapColl-832.16a/[187-?]/Acc.1848

Description: Topographical map of the area around the Maketu Pa, including the Kaituna River and Waihi Estuary. Okurei Point, Pukemiro Redoubt, Wharekahu Mission Buildings and Tapsell's store are named, as is the first old road to Waihi and Rotorua. The sites of the cemetery, a house and an English church are marked as is the palisade surrounding the pa. An extensive key details historic notes about the area. Title taken from the pencilled heading, believed to have been added at a later date Pencilled title of map is written along the top left [Sketch map of country around Waihi Estuary ... 1870] believed to have been added at a later date. The reference key is as follows:- A - Maketu Pa - palisade facing Te Tumu B - Tapsell's store on flat & whare on edge of cliff. A ti-palm marks spot of house now C - Pukemiro Redoubt - first Maori fort. Later 1845-1870 - British garrison D - Remains of old road graded by Maoris to Waihi & Rotorua E - Remains of trenches - 10ft. deep in places F - Last resting place of Arawa Canoe & grove of angiongi trees G - Pipi's chopping block H - Wharekahu Mission property - first police station in Bay of Plenty - bought from Tohi-te-Ururangi for a saw. Cemetery beyond where Hans Tapsell was buried I - palisaded fighting pa of Nagatierangi on sandhills at Te Tumo Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper, linen backed, 19.7 x 25 cm.

Date: 1864

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: A-033-011

Description: A three-quarter length portrait of Taratoa seated on a hillside in front of a palisade fence on the skyline 60 paces away. A flag flies on the flagpole by the fence. The flag has a red background, with (top left to bottom right) a Christian cross, an inverted new moon, and a 5-pointed star. Taratoa wears a rural European grey smock and bark (grey?) neckerchief. Based on a photograph. Robley is not thought to have met Taratoa Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - H G Robley; Recto - bottom left - The flagstaff 60 paces in rear; Verso - Portrait of Taratoa lay preacher (Selwyn), a Ngaiterangi chief killed at Te Ranga 21 June 64 / whose name is on the RAWIRI monument at Te Papa cemetry / who was Maori commander [may refer to Rawiri]. A window at Lichfield Cathedral placed by Bishop Selwyn to this lay preacher who drew up the humane order for fighting; as to protecting wounded men and bodies of the dead from desecration (as had lately happened at Te Ahu Ahu fight). (old native manner there)(at Te Ahu Ahu Captain Lloyds 57th Regt head was cut off, and some of the mens and Victorians History; Verso - top centre - [Labelled sketch of flag] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 230 x 183 mm. Transfers: May have been transferred from Robley papers in Manuscripts and Archives..

Date: 1864

By: Atcherley, Henry Mount Langton, active 1860-1903; King, F A (Mrs), active 1949

Reference: A-196-009

Description: View from a plain towards an abrupt hill, surmounted by a fort, containing tents, other dwellings and a flag-pole. There is a broad path leading up to the hill on the right, several soldiers and three dwellings at the base of the hill on the left. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - H. M. L. Atcherley; Recto - bottom right - [Title. Both inscriptions in red brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 142 x 226 mm

Date: 1864

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: A-033-012

Description: Shows Judea Redoubt close to Gate Pa, Bay of Plenty. Pitched tents on the left and scattered figures in the foreground. There is washing hanging from a clothesline close to the small raupo huts on the right. Mount Maunganui is in the background. Robley named the site from Huria, a Maori village alongside. Explanatory note on back of sketch This watercolour is thought to be the only existing view of Judea Redoubt Other Titles - Judea Redoubt Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 203 x 280 mm