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Diaries
Date: 1960-1964
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Diaries
Reference: Micro-MS-0600-12
Description: Notes on Adkin's original Maori oral history research which focuses on tribal histories, settlements, and historic sites. Adkin's interviewed Paeroa Wineera and her son Tutuira Wineera (1963) who gave him information on Ngati Toa whakapapa as well as the original Maori place-names for Taupo Pa (ie. Turi-Karewa) and other landmarks around Takapuwahia Pa. Includes notes on Adkin's archeological expeditions in the Mana-Kapiti Coast, Horowhenua, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay, and Wairarapa-Palliser Bay districts. Also comprises notes on the Whitireia and Mana Island archeological sites. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Turoa Kiniwe Royal - Te Wananga o Raukawa, Otaki
Date: 1981-1984
From: Royal family : Papers (Te Whanau a Roera Hukiki Te Ahukaramu)
Reference: MS-Papers-4563-1A/02
Description: Contains whakapapa to the Royal family and other papers pertaining to Te Wananga o Raukawa Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Karauti, Horopapera, 1878-1932 : Papers
Date: 1909-1937
By: Karauti, Horopapera, 1878-1932
Reference: MS-Group-1447
Description: Includes letters to his wife from the war, in both English and Maori, ephemera collected overseas, training diary, other papers relating to the war, photographs from the war and earlier (some relating to Te Aute College), other material. Karauti left New Zealand as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 4th Maori Contingent in May 1916 and served with the New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion in France Quantity: 45 folder(s). 7 volume(s). 0.40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs M Lomas, Wellington, November 2005 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to other sections from here - To Photographic Archive - 1 box of photographs (PAColl-8921) - To Book Collections - 1 box of various publications (PR-06-0099, PR-06-0100) - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Sketches of soldiers and `Jeannette' (A222-014/021) - To Cartographic Collection - World War One trench maps.
Old Horowhenua notebook recording data for Adkin's book Horowhenua
Date: 1948
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Papers and diaries
Reference: MS-Papers-0261-34/05
Description: Includes notes, sketches and some clippings (obituaries) about various Maori personalities, pa sites (fortified villages), kainga (villages), pa-tuna (eel weirs), and details of a multitude of Maori artefacts mainly from the Horowhenua area. Other Titles - Horowhenua Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Kerei Mangonui Roera (Lae Grey Royal) : Tribal histories ; Whakapapa
Date: 1913-1977
From: Royal family : Papers (Te Whanau a Roera Hukiki Te Ahukaramu)
Reference: MS-Papers-4563-2F/03
Description: Contains correspondence, clippings, minutes and the personal papers and documents of Lae Royal. These papers also contain whakapapa for the Royal family, Wineera family, Kawharu family and the Rowland family; all of which are related to the Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Ngati Koata tribes. There is also whakapapa which relates to other sections of these and other tribes. Also includes examples of the Kai Tahu dialect. Also contains typescript notes, in English, about some places around the northern South Island (meanings of names and brief histories), and some brief notes about Ngati Kuia Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Portrait of Mai Tahaia
Date: 1925
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
By: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964
Reference: PA1-q-002-085
Description: Portrait of Mai Tahaia photographed by George Leslie Adkin in 1925 Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002. Information given by Adkin with the photograph states that Mai Tahaia was a member of the Ngati Tukorehe hapu of Ngati Raukawa living at Muhunoa kainga on the south-western shore of [Lake] Papaitonga Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Genealogies
Date: [1930-1950]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-01
Description: Twenty-eight tables of genealogy including Taikapurua, Watana Akitu, Te Ahu Karamu, Hone Makimereni, Kingi Puihi (Te Rangiotu), Wiremu Te Aweawe, Winiata and Nicholson families, Hori Wirihana, Ngati Raukawa, Te Hakeke (Ngati Apa), Utiku Hapeta, Major Kemp, Enoka Te Wano, Arapata te Hiwi, Manahi te Hiakai, Waretini Tuainuku, Emily Broughton, meeting houses, Riria Makirika (Sciascia), Kipa Roera, Ngati Tara and Rangitane, Te Ao family, Te Rau-o-te-rangi, Pomare, Te Rauparaha, Parata and Bevan families and loose notes Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Adkin album 13
Date: Early 1900s to 1931
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-002
Description: Māori place names and old historical sites of Horowhenua (Vol. 1, images 1-146). Album includes maps, diagrams & sketches, and black & white photographs. Views include Paremata Redoubt, Lake Horowhenua, carved pātaka at Papaitonga Pā. Views of Komokorau, the burial place of Mua-Upoko chiefs including Chief Mahuera Paki Tanguru-o-te-rangi; Lake Wai-tawa and Te Moutere (formerly a fortified island pā). Place names & historic features of Kapiti Island, including relics of whaling days at Wharekohu Bay showing ruins of stone house, stone walls and a stone-embanked stream channel, burial caves, Waiorua Valley showing the approximate site of Te Rauparaha's principal pā, and Motungārara Island where there was a subsidiary pā of Te Rauparaha. Ōtaki, Rangiātea Church (1925); carved whare at Puke-Karaka; Ōtaki Jubilee Pole; and old meeting house Uawhaki at Waikawa. The site of the old Māori flour-mill on the Waitarere Stream at Poroutawhao, which was built in 1853 or 1854 under the direction of a French priest. Several images of performers competing in the haka and poi competitions at Shannon, 2 January 1928. Images of Pākehā pioneers of Horowhenua (Hector McDonald and his wife Agnes (nee Carmont)), and a photograph of Rora Hakaraia, daughter of Mua-Upoko chief Tanguru, and sister of Te Rangihiwinui (also known as Taitoko, and later as Te Keepa or Major Kemp). The photograph of Rora Hakaraia was taken from a painting in the possession of Rod A. McDonald of Levin. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s).