Places

Date: [ca 1880s-1966]

By: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979; Burke, Walter Ernest Messervy, 1866-1954; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-4454

Description: Mounted photographs of a moa skeleton compared with a human one; a view from Cains Terrace, Timaru showing the Post Office and old St Mary's Church; a group of Maori in traditional clothes outside the carved meeting house at Ohinemutu, Rotorua; view of Parihaka pa with Te Whiti's house on the left and Mount Taranaki in the background; Sir George Grey's house at Kawau Island with a jetty; two stuffed kiwi and a kiwi egg; a woman sitting outside a Maori whare with a pig; a man standing outside the Vulcan Hotel, St Bathans with advertisements for Gaytime ice-cream and Speights beer 1966; and a loose print of a young woman sitting at the pihanga of a meeting house with a carved pare. Photographers include Walter Burke. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-029165, 071676, 071677, 071678, and 071696. Two of the images are described as the same as 1/2-031035 and 1/2-015845 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 7 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

Date: ca 1860s-1870s

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-4693

Description: Photographs of an unidentified Maori man with full moko and huia feathers; an unidentified young Maori woman with moko; two photographs of groups of Maori in European dress some holding rifles, one at a pa at East Clive and the other at a pa at Omarunui near Taradale, both in the early 1860s; and a montage of Maori cartes de visite, houses and bush views taken by Burton Bros. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1843

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: A-275-008

Description: A Maori family in the left foreground, with a man heading towards a path rising up a bush-clad mound, on top of which is the Pa, known both as Maketu from the name of its meeting house and as Otawhao. To the right is a broad plain with Pirongia mountain in the background. The meeting house is the tallest roof showing above the palisade. Other Titles - Otawhao Inscriptions: Verso - J. J. Merrett. Dec.r 1843 [inscribed on holograph poem "Wake warriors wake!" on the verso] A very similar ink and wash drawing is held in the British Library (Add. MS 19953, p. 20 plate 46), titled A Pah at Otawao, Waipa. The British Library drawing lacks the Maori in the foreground. There is also a drawing of the meeting house 'Maketu' by Merrett (Add MS 19953, p. 28, plate 72) and a more distant view of the pa titled 'Otawao Pah' (Add MS 19953, p. 28 pl. 73). The meeting house itself is illustrated by George French Angas (possibly copying another drawing by Merrett) in 'The New Zealanders Illustrated' - 'Maketu house, Otawhao Pah'. (London, McLean, 1847), plate 25. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 163 x 247 mm Provenance: Originally part of Mrs Hobson's album. The album was passed by Eliza Hobson to her daughter, Eliza, Lady Rendel. Transfers: One of several pages removed from the Hobson album for conservation reasons, 1990. This page was was formerly located on p. 121 of the album..

Date: [1880s]

Reference: 1/1-000646-F

Description: Photograph of Nga Tau e Waru meeting house at Te Ore Ore marae, Masterton district, with a group of Maori in the porch of the house; the distinctive decorative style of the house, using paintings, carvings and kowhaiwhai, are clearly seen The meeting house at Te Ore Ore was opened in 1881, but burnt down later Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1884

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025757-G

Description: View of Maketu Pa at Kawhia. Some whare can be seen and in the centre distance is a meeting house. Taken by William Williams in 1884. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1846

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-117-2

Description: Scene on a marae inside a palisaded pā (Motuopuhi Pā?) with an orator surrounded by a large crowd of seated Māori, several whare and a whare nui, hills behind with a cabbage tree on the skyline and Lake Rotoaira to the left. Te Heuheu and his wives were killed in the landslide that wiped out Te Rapa on 7 May 1846. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil & ink, 85 x 155 mm