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[Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant] 1820-1895 :Mataura. [1851?]
Date: 1851
From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.
By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895
Reference: C-103-101
Description: A flat lightly bushed landscape at the base of the view showing Mataura, with a map above showing the course of the Waihopai River, Southland, and its passage out to sea, through the site of modern Invercargill. The map predates the settlement of Invercargill, whose site was selected in 1856. Various places are named on the map, including Oterawa and Taurakitewaru Wood at the mouth of the Waihopai River, Arowenua Wood (i. e. Arowhenua), Waihopai Woods and Oteraumaka Wood, as well as Pitokaika and Taurakarakauaraihe, both small areas of bush. Omaui Hill is shown to the South East, close to the sea. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 325 x 205 mm
Thomson, John Turnbull 1821-1884 :Crossing the Mataura, 11 Jan. 1857. 1877.
Date: 1857 - 1877
By: Thomson, John Turnbull, 1821-1884; Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972
Reference: A-285-006
Description: Shows Thomson in the front of a canoe being guided through rapids by Maori canoeist, Reko. Both men appear rather alarmed. Reko identified using John Hall-Jones' book "John Turnbull Thomson, first surveyor-general of New Zealand", pages 32-35. (Dunedin, 1992). ATL NZ&P collection q 920 THO HAL 1992. From that book, this river-crossing may have taken place ca September 1856, rather than January 1857. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - JTT 1877; Verso - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 306 mm. Provenance: Found in the research file for the book "Exploration New Zealand". Originally in the collection of the Hall-Jones family of Invercargill, descendants of John Turnbull Thompson and passed to Pascoe Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 75-241-11. - From the papers of John Pascoe (MS-75-241-11)..