Places

Date: 1844 - 1845

By: Tiffen, Henry Stokes, 1816-1896; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; New Zealand Company

Reference: MapColl-832at/1844-1845/Acc.855

Description: Chart of most of North Island (excluding North of North Island) highlighting detail of Wellington, Wairarapa, Wanganui District, Manukau and the Hauraki Gulf. East Cape and inland East Coast show very little or no detail. Insets of Port Nicholson, Kawhia, Tauranga, Waitemata, Manukau and Whangaroa harbours. Extended Title - Compiled by Tiffen from the Government and New Zealand Company's surveys and reconnaisances, from sketches by Messrs. Symonds, D. Bett, R. Harrison, - Richards, J. Thomas, - Murant, and from Native information, 1844-5. I am Chas. Brees, principal surveyor, New Zealand Company. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale 1:800,000, 84 x 64 cm.

Date: 1842

By: New Zealand Company; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: MapColl-832.43gbbd/1842/Acc.7598

Description: Cadastral map of country sections bordering the Orewenua and Manawatu Districts between the Manawatu River and Lake Orewenua, highlighting in yellow 36 Maori reserves on numbered sections (15, 33-4, 38-9, 54-5, 60-3, 75-8, 82-6, 106-117, 176-181). Also depicts 12 'potato grounds', primarily concentrated along the Manawatu River in the Manawatu District highlighted green, from Tahumataroa southwards to Purikawau (sections 3-4, 6-7, 12, 17-18, 20, 24-7, 32-3, 35-7). One is also depicted in the Orewenua District over sections 54-5 and 77. Map has been copied and the coloured highlighted areas added, as on the original map. Several pa sites are indicated on the original map along the Manawatu River (such as Pa Taitara, Pa Taha). Names on sections include Wotenui's Place, Ara-Tangata, Porikawau, Kuti Kuti Rau, Te Paiaka, Te Kari Kari, Koputorua, Te Rotorua, Tokomaru, Tahumataroa. Note on map shows that Te Kari Kari is the headquarters for the surveying staff. Several handwritten notes on original map are illegible on this copy. Map marked '37' and signed 'Sam Chas Brees, principal surveyor'. Includes some comments on river and road access. Surveyed for the New Zealand Company. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy with coloured pencil, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 62.4 x 72.5 cm.

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: B-113-008

Description: Shows the Maori guide Kehu snaring a weka with a lure of food on a stick and a long pole with a noose. To the right is a makeshift open-fronted slab hut, a small fire burning outside, with the artist's two European companions, Charles Heaphy and Thomas Brunner reclining inside. The Matakitaki River and hills are in the background. Mount Mantell is the cone-shaped hill to the right. Recorded by Fox on his 1846 journey from Nelson through to the West Coast and back with Charles Heaphy and Thomas Brunner. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print, 1965 Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Exhibitied in 'Drawn From Nature: Europeans Record New Zealand, 1770-1860' exhibition at the National Library Gallery, 31 March to 28 May 1989. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Other Titles - Matakitaki Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title [in pencil]; Verso - [New Zealand Company Stamp, dated 19 February 1847, and inscribed 'No. 218'. Full title also on verso, along with] 20th Feb. W. Fox Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 204 x 257 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection. Purchased, London, 1915 by Alexander Turnbull.

Date: 1840

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-011-005

Description: View from inside Pipitea Pa, looking north up the harbour towards the Hutt Valley and the Rimutaka Ranges. In the left foreground, two people sit, wrapped in blankets on bare ground. The edges of the site are defined with palisades of varying heights. On lower ground to the right are a wharenui, a long low building with a single door in the side, and two whata or food storage buildings on poles. Note on verso: Selected to be exhibited in the Academy Gallery for the Chamber of Commerce centennial June 1956, but not shown because of lack of space. Other Titles - Wellington Harbour, December Other Titles - Pa Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and brown ink drawing 205 x 284 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, London, 1915, as part of the New Zealand Company collection.

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-146-009

Description: Shows the ornately carved frontage of a storehouse on two poles, with a notched climbing pole for access. In the left background sit a Maori man and women with a cooking pot and a dog in front of a large whare. There is a wooden enclosure fence with carved posts at the right and behind, including one human figurehead, a pipe in his mouth. There are woven bags of food possibly kumara stacked beneath the storehouse. Mount Egmont, its height and symmetry exaggerated, is in the background Lithograph, entitled "Wata or Provision house at Otumatua" (neg. 1/2-150220-F), was made by an unknown lithographer, after this watercolour, and included as an illustration in Wakefield, E. J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London, 1845). A watercolour by Heaphy in the Hocken Library, Dunedin, is titled by the artist 'Gateway at Otumatia Pa'. The correct form of the name is not known Other Titles - Wata or provision house at Otumatua. Pa. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy; Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - [New Zealand Company stamp]: Mar 23 1842 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchased with other New Zealand Company material by Alexander Turnbull, Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

Date: 1840 - 1841

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-011-007

Description: An extensive view from a cleared high spot with a dead tree in the left foreground, looking across bush and hills towards the west coast and the sea. The conical hill in the left background is probably Colonial Knob, with Titahi Bay in the centre background and Mount Cooper, the highest hill in the right background. Other Titles - Potato Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in sepia ink, with initials WMS. Bottom left, 'Portfolio D'. Top left 'No. 59'. Top right, New Zealand Company stamp, dated Feb 17 1842 (its date of receipt in London). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and brown ink drawing with touches of blue watercolour 177 x 255 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company drawing no. 59. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915.