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Gudgeon, Walter Edward, 1841-1920 : Maori genealogies
Date: [188-?]
By: Gudgeon, Walter Edward, 1841-1920
Reference: Micro-MS-0179
Description: Genealogies of Hawkes Bay, Poverty Bay and Northland tribes; index and some vocabulary included Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 100 frames).
Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :Mt Cook, Greenstone country, Middle Id. [1846]
Date: 1846
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881
Reference: A-144-013
Description: Coastline of Arahura district, Westland, looking south with Mount Cook in the distance and a sailing ship offshore, near the mouth of the Taramakau River. Possibly the earliest view of this coastline and Mount Cook from the land. Similar images are held by the British Library, in a private collection in Basel and reproduced in Hochstetter's New Zealand (Stuttgart, 1867). Middle Island was an earlier name for New Zealand's South Island. Dates from Heaphy's five-month long exploration from Nelson to the West Coast near Hokitika, in company with William Fox, Thomas Brunner and Kehu, March-August 1846. They were the first Pakeha to visit the Poutini Ngai Tahu settlements in Westland and to establish Mount Cook as New Zealand's highest mountain. Other Titles - Arahura Coast and Mount Cook from the mouth of the Taramakau River Other Titles - Kaikoura Coast [Incorrect title in auction catalogue, 1991] Other Titles - South Island Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Chas Heaphy. Title (barely legible) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour with Chinese white and scraping out on tinted paper, image 140 x 225 mm on sheet 176 x 268 mm Provenance: Previously held in a private collection