Places

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: B-004-030

Description: Recto shows two huts beside and end of the lake; verso shows a woman carrying a baby on her back, and a man with a bird. A copy of this watercolour was reproduced in 1967 as one of 'The Barraud Prints' published by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - Horowhenua / Papaitonga; Unsigned and undated. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, on both sides of sheet, 270 x 415 mm.

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-123-006

Description: Maori whare with rapou thatched roof and fish-rack with drying fish on a small rocky beach on the east side of Miramar Peninsula. The Eastbourne hills are on the other side of the sea close to the entrance to Wellington Harbour. Inscriptions: Signed: W. F. B. Note on verso: The Entrance [i. e. to Wellington Harbour] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper 175 x 250 mm Provenance: Barraud family donation.

Date: 1910

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-356-013

Description: Shows a raupo hut on the water's edge, with a view of an offshore island (probably Kapiti Island) in the distance. Te Rauparaha died at Otaki in 1849, so the location is likely to be there, with Kapiti Island in the distance. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, impression 134 x 180 mm, on sheet 235 x 282 mm.

Date: 1862 - 1864

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :[Lake Papaitonga; Maori woman carrying child; man with bird. ca 1863].

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: B-004-030-1

Description: Shows two huts beside and end of the lake, one with a group of six Maori (probably three men and three women) five of them seated, in front of it. At the entrance way to the other a hut man is about to enter carrying a flat bowl with steam rising from it. In the centre foreground is a three?-legged cauldron. In the lake water at right a figure stands at the back of a canoe. There is a grassy island in the lake and beyond is flat-rolling land partly covered with bush. Reader in 2005 suggests that this picture may show the Mahoenui kainga, burnt down in 1873, by Muaupoko tribe. Verso shows pencil sketch of Maori woman carrying child beneath cape, and unfinished sketch of man with bird. Original watercolour for photolithographic prints at C-028-012/012-b. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - Horowhenua / Papaitonga; Unsigned and undated. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on recto of sheet 270 x 415 mm.

Date: 1875 - 1880

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-029-063

Description: Shows several whare in centre foreground, a bridge at right, and the impressive Pohaturoa Rock in centre background. Possibly the original for the wood engraving 'Pohaturoa' by C. D. Barraud published in his New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive (London, 1877) p. 19. The accompanying text reads "Pohatura, or the Great Rock ... which rises 650 feet abruptly from the plain on the banks of the Waikato near Niho-o-te Kiore, is a celebrated pa of the Ngatiraukawa tribe". Date uncertain; may be earlier or later than indicated. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 240 x 340 mm.