Places

Date: [Circa 1890s?]

From: Starke, June, 1923-2006: Photographs

By: Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963

Reference: PA1-o-477

Description: Seven pages of photographs of New Zealand; pages 8-44 are empty Identification of places is in pencil beneath the images, and include "Mr Neal's whare", and one entitled "A Maori village, N.Z." signed Denton. There are two views of Frasertown, one of a Frasertown celebration with a group of five men in a bar, and one of the Frasertown Show. One image shows ancient Maori carved figures in the bush; and two others show a small house in summer and in winter surrounded by snow Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 24.5 x 32.0 cm

Date: 1875 - 1890 - 1885 - 1891

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

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

Reference: A-274-055

Description: A reproduction of a photograph, showing Te Hauhau, a Maori chief or priest, seated at the entrance of a carved and painted wharenui. He is clad in formal Maori clothing with huia feathers in his hair and is holding a taiaha, point down, in front of him. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - in blue pencil: 10-6-89. Also in pencil above image, ringed: Printer Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, on sheet 291 x 230 mm

Date: 1832

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: G-402

Description: A portrait of the seated figure of Tohitapu, with long hair and beard. Inscribed on verso: 'Tohitapu from sketch by Rev. H. Williams. Carved and coloured wooden frame is from church at Te Wairoa which was buried by the eruption of Tarawera in 1886'. Tohitapu feasted on the body of Marion du Fresne. Frame: in a frame carved with Maori designs A copy of an original drawing in Auckland Museum Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pencil drawing, 215 x 165 mm Provenance: Unknown

Date: 1885

From: New Zealand Department of Justice, Commissioner of Patents :Collection of Burton Brothers prints

By: Burton, Alfred Henry, 1834?-1914

Reference: PA7-36-26

Description: Photograph of Te Hau Hau wearing a headband with two huia feathers at the front and with a blanket over his shoulders. He is standing behind a fence which has been erected in front of the verandah (mahau) of King Tawhiao's whare puni at Te Kuiti. Photograph taken by Alfred Burton in Jun 1885. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3607. `Te Hauhau' at the Te Kuiti - King Country. Burton Bros, Dunedin; Mount recto - left of image - Registrar of Copyrights, New Zealand. 692 Another view of the same subject at PA7-36-25 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 20.2 x 14.8 cm on mount 29.2 x 22.8 cm

Date: [Early 1880s?]

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Taber, Isaiah West, 1830-1912

Reference: PA1-q-153

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers, circa early 1880s. Images include several Maori groups, Maori kainga, meeting houses, carving; a large number of views of mud pools, geysers, hot springs, and in particular views of the Pink and White Terraces before the Tarawera eruption in 1886. Other views show areas of the South Island, including Dunedin City, Oamaru, Christchurch; and the North island including Auckland, Thames District (a number showing aspects of gold mining in the area). The last photograph, of the R.M.S.S. Zealandia was taken by Taber Photo, San Francisco. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with grey blue cover, black corners and spine edged with gold; 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Date: 1867 - 1864

From: Illustrated London news :Various scenes of early New Zealand published in the Illustrated London News. 1860s

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: B-070-011

Description: A Maori man and two women seated outside a carved gateway and the palisade of Maketu Pal, near Tauranga. The woman in the white skirt has been identified as Hineaturama, Phillip Tapsell's third wife. The seated man with the spear to the right is Hikaroa. The dog in the foreground was sent from Denmark to Philip Tapsell in New Zealand by his brother. It was a Dutch barge dog. The gate shown in this view is now in the Vienna Museum. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 50, p. 27, 1867. Robley's watercolour on which this wood engraving is based is in the Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust Museum, accession number MMC 808. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving

Date: [Circa 1890s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919

Reference: PA1-o-520

Description: Album of tourist views of New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic Islands, chiefly taken by John Richard Morris, Jnr, circa 1890s. Places and subjects listed above where identified. The Sub-Antarctic Island views are all of native flora and fauna of the different islands, listed on the images as mollymawks, albatrosses, sea lions, crested penguins and erect-crested penguins On page 32 there is a view of the SS Knight Templar leaving Lyttelton on February 17, 1900, taking about 260 soldiers and 300 horses of the 3rd Contingent "the New Zealand Roughriders" to Durban, en route to fight in the South African War. The wharf is crowded with people seeing the ship off, soldiers lined up alongside the ship, and bunting flying on two ships nearby. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1844

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

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-028-1

Description: Full length squatting stylised portrait of Te Rangihaeata holding a pipe or other object and carved by himself. It formed the lower portion of the central pillar supporting the roof of Rangihaeata's house on Mana Island, the house being known as Kaitangata. The image was about 4 feet high and had eyes of inlaid paua shell. Original sketch for lithograph In: Angas G F "New Zealanders Illustrated", Plate XLVI, no. 1 p.105 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 134 x 228 mm

Date: [Before 10 Jun 1886]

From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations

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

Reference: PA7-37-13

Description: Photograph of an unidentified group of Maori in front of the Hinemihi meeting house at Te Wairoa taken prior to the eruption of Mount Tarawera. Photograph taken by Burton Bros, before 10 Jun 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3846 - Runanga House (Hinemihi), Wairoa. Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.5 x 20 cm on mount 23 x 29.3 cm Provenance: Source/donor - Donated by Robert Mercer, 7 Apr 1964

Date: May 1832

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

By: Earle, Augustus, 1793-1838

Reference: A-274-011

Description: A carved pataka supported by two poles, one with a carved figure at its base. A Maori man with a weapon is standing nearby and a curved bay with hills, probably the Bay of Islands, can be seen in the background Page removed from Narrative of a nine months residence in New Zealand by Augustus Earle (London, Longman, 1832). Opposite page 20 Sepia aquatint Ellis number 243 Other Titles - Tabued, tapued Earle was in New Zealand for six months, 1827-1828, mostly in the Bay of Islands Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, on sheet 219 x 139 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

Date: circa 1890-1910

From: Shaw, G W :Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna

By: Wilson, Alex R, active 1900s; Shaw, Helen M G, active 1976

Reference: PA1-q-269

Description: Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna. William M Wilson was born in Glasgow in 1868, coming to New Zealand when 8 years of age. He was apprenticed to John Fitchett, coach builder in Wellington, then with other firms including Rouse & Hurrell. He was employed by Wilfred Woolf in Eketahuna in 1894, and subsequently bought his business, and entered the firm of Kibblewhite and Wilson. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Wellington Provincial District, Eketahuna. Includes dwellings; carriages; group outings and portraits; 1 of the Club Hotel of F D Pelling; 3 of the Ryan family at Tawa Flat; 1 of a house at Island Bay, 1 of a thatched whare at Plimmerton, a Ghuznee St boarding house; 2 relating to the Burnett family; 2 scenes in Manakau; 1 of D A Greenlees store; 2 of Rarotanga; 2 relating to the business of Lyon & Blair, steam printers and lithographers; 1 of a group outside a house in Eastbourne; 3 relating to the Manson family; 1 of a military camp in New Zealand in preparation for the South African War. Also includes a pocket on the inside back cover containing newspaper clippings, and a photocopy of a letter written by the donor Mrs Helen M G Shaw, which gives some information about the album. Inscriptions: Album page - Alex R Wilson, Central Terrace, Kelburne, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover; 28.5 x 20.5 cm

Date: 1844

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

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-029

Description: Various Maori artifacts, including a carved shark's tooth, a tiki, a dagger and a club, a flute, a greenstone earring and a drawing of a woman's lip and chin tattoo. Other Titles - Pounamu (greenstone), he kumete (a bowl) Quantity: 7 drawing(s) (on recto). 1 drawing(s) (on verso). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 230 x 313 mm

Date: [1890s-1900s]

From: Harris, Esme Enid, 1913-1993 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-115

Description: Album containing family photographs (mostly unidentified); photographs of life in Wellington and the region nearby, including two group portraits of school children, views of public buildings in the city, the Kelburn Cable Car, shipping in the harbour, and views of fire fighters, the fire brigade building in Newtown, and fire fighting equiment. In the Wellington region are views of the Porirua Hospital, and the Maori meeting house at Otaki. Source of descriptive information - Biographical information for M E Coulter from Library client, 2007 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with ochre coloured buckram cover, entitled `Sunny memories'; 33 x 28 cm

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Mair, Gilbert Henry, 1875-1966 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-2315-08

Description: Interior of Te Rauru meeting house at Whakarewarewa showing kowhaiwhai (rafter patterns), tukutuku (woven lattice panels), carved wooden slabs and flax floor mats. Photograph probably taken by Josiah Martin circa 1880s. Exhibited in 'Collect' exhibition on the role of collection in the Alexander Turnbull Library, mounted in National Library Gallery, 15 December 2006. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Carved Maori House Whakarewarewa Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.1 x 19.8 cm

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-051

Description: Drawings of two guardian figures from a pa entrance at Rangiriri. Rough indications of flax bushes from Whangamarino Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 100 x 320 mm

Date: [1880s-1900s?]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Iles, James, active 1878; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-518

Description: Includes photographs of Maori artefacts in museum context. Possibly created by James Edge-Partington, an anthropologist who studied artefacts in New Zealand and the Pacific. This volume is in the same style of album, with similar photographs and articles as Webster album 4 (PA1-o-519) which has Edge-Partington's named bookplate inside the front cover. Studies of a variety of artefacts including an instrument giving a decoy call for kiwi; a sea leopard's tooth carved and worn as a pendant (from Stewart Island); whale teeth pendants; weapons; tools; carved waka, prows of waka; carved meeting houses; Te Kooti's house "Te Waho"; carved storehouses; a Maori kite; eel traps and fish hooks. The artefacts are from various collections in New Zealand and overseas, including the Chapman Collection, the Hamilton Collection, the Hocken Collection and General Robley's Collection. Cuttings from articles written by James Edge-Partington from anthropological journals are inserted in the album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Abum with dark grey cover; 26 x 21 cm

Date: 1844

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

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-003

Description: Shows an elaborately carved tekoteko which forms the post of a palisade to a pa near Rotoaira Lake Original sketch for lithograph in Angas, G F "New Zealanders Illustrated", Plate L, p114, where it is described as a carved Tiki or image in an old pah near Roto-aire (Rotoaira) Lake. Behond the image is a little elevated whata, or box for holding the bones of a favourite child Other Titles - Hei tiki Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 233 x 175 mm

Date: 1914 - 1844 - 1847

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd; New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-015-019-c

Description: A large whare with carved figures along the near side, a porch and painted rafters (kowhaiwhai) Supplement to: Brett's Christmas annual 1914 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 235 x 338 mm

Date: [Between 1868 and 1885?]

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

Reference: PA1-o-083

Description: Photograph album titled 'New Zealand land of loveliness'. Includes photographs of the Wairoa and Rotorua Districts, taken by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Other Titles - Land of loveliness Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Cloth cover entitled "Land of loveliness. New Zealand. Photographed by Burton Bros. Dunedin"

Date: 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 1st series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-452-f-015-2

Description: Front profile of a carved boundary post, known as Fitzroy's Pole, erected near Bell Block, New Plymouth, a European fence beyond it. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour wash, 240 x 160 mm