Places

Date: 1865 - 1845 - 1866

By: Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868

Reference: B-014-007

Description: A large thatched storehouse (pataka) on four poles to the left, outside a fenced area containing three houses (one with a European-style slab chimney), and a smaller taller storehouse in a tree on the far right. A group of Maori outside the fence appear to be selling potatoes to a European. No. S97 in Richard S. Schneiderman's catalogue raisonne. State vi/vii. Other Titles - New Zealand. Native store-houses and dwellings at Akaroa. Banks Peninsula [translation] Collector's mark on recto, a stamped monogram with AM in a circle. (The same mark appears on B-014-003). The Library holds another copy of the same print, same state, at B-014-006, more heavily inked than B-014-007 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 5 x 9 inches

Date: [1844]

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

Reference: A-020-005

Description: On the left, a watercolour of the point of a taiaha (spear) with notes about war costume of Maori. There is also a drawing of a huia feather and a note about a momument at Ngauranga to the memory of Te Wharepouri. On the right, 'slave preparing food' at Ngauranga Pa, shows a crouching woman inside a hut, preparing small round objects, possibly potatoes, from a basket in front of her. The taiaha is the original sketch for a lithograph In: Angas, G F, The New Zealanders illustrated, (London, 1847), Plate 58, No 7, p 130, where it is described as E Hani. The slave woman is the original drawing for a view in the upper right corner of Plate 59, no. 2 ' Domestic sketches' Other Titles - Ngauranga Nga Hauranga. Huia. War costume Quantity: 1 drawing(s). 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil 182 x 100 mm; Watercolour 175 x 107 mm

Date: 1886 - 1911 - 1938

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/2/2-Acc.38772

Description: Identifies with coloured dots, areas of potatoes, fruit, tobacco, peas, barley and maize (1886, 1911, 1938). Quantity: 6 manuscript map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Ink drawing on linen. Scale indeterminable. 77 x 70 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1886 - 1911 - 1938

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/1/12-Acc.38711

Description: Identifies with coloured dots areas of potatoes, fruit and tobaccof Quantity: 3 manuscript map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Ink and coloured drawing on tissue paper. Scale indeterminable. 41 x 53 cm Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1844 - 1889 - 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Allan, Joseph Stuart, 1861-1930

Reference: B-110-029-3

Description: A squatting Maori woman preparing potatoes for a meal. She has two woven baskets in front of her, holding the potatoes. She wears a cloak across her shoulders One of four proof lithographs on a single sheet measuring 447 x 285 mm. A copy of the upper right section of a lithograph by G. F. Angas, 'Domestic sketches', in his The New Zealanders illustrated (London, 1847), Plate 59, no. 2 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 170 x 99 mm

Date: 1846 - 1951

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962

Reference: A-173-035

Description: The stone Paremata Redoubt, with its two towers, surrounded by a yard with a picket fence. A ship visible in Porirua Harbour in the background and soldiers standing in line to attention, with tents in the distance. By the gate in the foreground, a Maori woman is selling produce to a group of soldiers, while another man with fish in a kete, and a woman with potatoes await their turn. Two civilians watch the proceedings from the right, one smoking a pipe. Drawn from descriptions provided by James Cowan The remains of this fort still stand in the Ngati Toa Domain, at Mana, just north of Porirua City Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Grey wash, 242 x 316 mm

Date: 1866 - 1845

By: Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868

Reference: B-014-006

Description: A large thatched storehouse (pataka) on four poles to the left, outside a fenced area containing three houses (one with a European style slab chimney), and a smaller taller storehouse on the far right. A group of Maori outside the fence appear to be selling potatoes to a European. No. S97 in Richard S. Schneiderman's catalogue raisonne. State v/vi. The Library holds a second copy of the same print (same state) at B-014-007. This copy is more heavily inked than B-014-007. Other Titles - New Zealand. Native storehouses and dwellings at Akaroa (Banks Peninsula) [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 120 x 228 mm (image) on sheet 270 x 382 mm

Date: 28 June 1878

From: Walsh, Philip 1843-1914 :[Waitara sketchbook]

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-357-031/032

Description: Shows rows of kumara baskets, topped with pigs ready for a huge feast, a large crowd of Maori and Europeans mostly seated, dogs, a horse and cart, flags, the palisade of a pa and houses in the background. A Maori man is making a speech to the left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 110 x 360 mm

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: 1841 - 1855

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-189-019

Description: A clearing in dense bush, with a Maori storage platform containing kete and seed potatoes. Two people to the right of the platform. One appears to be lifting a kete onto the platform. A cabbage tree is visible amongst the bush to the left and there is a large dead tree trunk on the left. The drawing is black and white and may be unfinished. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Crayon on paper, 215 x 127 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: PUBL-0020-05-1

Description: Part of a pa seen from Plimmerton with Porirua Harbour in the background. A European man with swag, walking stick and dog is walking towards the palisaded pataka and potato garden on the headland in front of him. Taupo Pa (Plimmerton) is on the left. The accompanying text mentions that the view is taken from the native path passing from Porirua to Pukerua Bay, that the foreground structure is around a native potato garden and that the bay to the left 'is called Taupo and is the spot where Rangihaeata intrenched himself after the Wairau Massacre' Other Titles - Porirua Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand coloured 85 x 145 mm

Date: 1840 - 1841

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-011-007

Description: An extensive view from a cleared high spot with a dead tree in the left foreground, looking across bush and hills towards the west coast and the sea. The conical hill in the left background is probably Colonial Knob, with Titahi Bay in the centre background and Mount Cooper, the highest hill in the right background. Other Titles - Potato Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in sepia ink, with initials WMS. Bottom left, 'Portfolio D'. Top left 'No. 59'. Top right, New Zealand Company stamp, dated Feb 17 1842 (its date of receipt in London). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and brown ink drawing with touches of blue watercolour 177 x 255 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company drawing no. 59. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

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: 1861

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of a trip up the Wanganui River, December 13, 1861-Jan 8, 1862]

Reference: E-041-030

Description: A carving of a man in the foreground, with a low building beyond and fencing around a pit. To the left is a paddock with a horse and a cow. A large cabbage tree is in the centre and a small building, possibly a pataka, is visible on the right. Hills and bush are in the distance Other Titles - Potato Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & ink, page size 130 x 177 mm