Places

Date: 1845 - 1859

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Trapp, H H, active 1983

Reference: B-062-021

Description: Shows three figures tramping across a plain, with flax bushes and cabbage trees. In the background, the landscape is probably Waiohine Gorge with Mounts Isabelle and Holdsworth (Identified by A G Bagnall, 4/7/1983) The background landscape was identified by A G Bagnall, at the time of donation, personal communication to Curator, 4 July 1983 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour ; visible image 195 x 312 mm on sheet 310 x 430 mm

Date: 1850 - 1860

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-028

Description: The three-storied flour mill at Kaiwharawhara, with its mill wheel to the left, set alongside Kaiwharawhara Stream (at the bottom of Ngaio Gorge) with a road running towards the mill on the stream's right bank and bush-clad hills. A Maori man with a spear in one hand is walking towards the mill. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 252 mm. Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: [circa 1860]

Reference: PA2-2397

Description: Te Anaua, circa 1860. Photographer unidentified. Te Anaua, also called Tu and Hori Kingi was a prominent Whanganui chief in the early part of the nineteenth century. He was head chief of the Ngati-Ruaka. Te Anaua signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Hori Kingi Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-005

Description: Shows a spirited group of three Maori, two men and one woman, each on horseback, galloping from left to right in profile. The woman wears a top hat, and the men wear peaked caps. The woman rides sidesaddle. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - William Strutt 1856.; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 190 x 255 mm

Date: 1856

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: G-695

Description: A group of Maori in the foreground, dressed partly in Maori, partly in European clothing. They are seated in cleared farmland, with cattle to the right, sheep in the distance to the left. Mount Taranaki topped with snow is in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - William Strutt [in red brushpoint]; Verso - W. Strutt. Taranaki. 1856. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 325 x 710 mm Provenance: Collection of A. H. Turnbull.

Date: 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 1] 1851-1852

Reference: E-332-041

Description: Shows two Maori men and a child sitting outside a raupo whare in front of a camp fire, with a tent to their right and a range of mountains in the background. Also a sketch on the left side of the page showing 'Waitaki looking north down the valley through which the path runs'. Te Raupoaparaheka is a swamp near the Kurow River Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title also; About 500 ft above us looking about south. Spurs at Kohurau plain ridge behind Mt Omega Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 185 x 229 mm (side on)

Date: 1855

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

Reference: E-106-f-005-2

Description: Shows the Maori chief Te Tanewha seated on the ground wrapped in a cloak, a mere hanging from his right wrist and sheltering under a piece of cloth/canvas tied between two trees. Published in the Illustrated London news in 1855. On the same page are engravings of Kawau, a view of the Hutt River and bridge, and articles by Charles W Ligar about Maru-tu-ahu, and another about the recent earthquake in the Hutt Valley. Other Titles - Te Horeta Tanewha Extended Title - From Illustrated London news, Vol 27, No 771, Jul-Dec 1855, p 620 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 130 x 80 mm on page 370 x 240 mm

Date: [ca 1850s-1860s]

Reference: 1/2-113813-F

Description: Upper body portrait of Reverend Te Koti Te Rato. Inscriptions: bottom centre - Te Kooti Te Rato was a Wesleyan minister at Rapaki in Lyttelton, and the Chatham Islands for many years. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1884 - 1851

From: Church Missionary Gleaner for 1884.

Reference: PUBL-0006-1884-022

Description: A scene near Hauraki, 9 April 1851, showing Archdeacon Brown with members of the Tauranga tribes, an orator in the centre, gesturing with an upraised left arm, a spear in his right hand, and another Church Missionary Society missionary negotiating for local tribes. A stream runs between the two groups. First published in the Church Missionary Gleaner, No. 5, May 1852, p. 49. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) wood engraving. Physical Description: Wood engraving 100 x 140 mm

Date: 1855 - 1884

From: Church Missionary Gleaner for 1884.

Reference: PUBL-0006-1884-098

Description: Two Maori canoes laden with people, including Grace and his wife, reaching the shore, with crowds welcoming them. Part of a pa is visible on the top of a hill on the right. One man is standing in the Grace's canoe and waving his arms and his paddle. Physical Description: Wood engraving 120 x 200 mm

Date: 1852 - 1900

By: Webster, Hartley, -1906

Reference: PA2-1830

Description: Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Wi Karamoa Rangiowhia Waikato Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1855

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 1st series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-452-f-010-2

Description: Half length frontal portrait of a Taranaki Maori chief with full moko. He is wearing a cloak held together with a bone clasp Rawiri is the Maori form of the English name David. Rawiri died in 1855 and his grave is shown in E-453-f-002-2 'Rawiri Wairua's grave & the spot where he fell. 1855' and in E-453-f-0 'Rawiri's widow' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 150 x 130 mm

Date: 1854 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-082-1

Description: Looking along a shoreline with a war canoe close to shore, with a rower holding an oar seated in the stern. On the shore are many Maori, most holding oars. There are hills in the distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & ink, 120 x 180 mm

Date: 1852 - 1866

By: Webster, Hartley, -1906

Reference: PA2-2101

Description: Te Awa-i-taia was a leader of Ngati Mahanga, whose home was on the Waipa River. In 1833 he was converted to Christianity and baptised by the resident Wesleyan Missionary, James Wallis on 17 January 1836. He signed the Treaty of Waitangi on 11 April 1840 when it was brought to Whaingaroa by the CMS missionary Robert Maunsell and he exhorted others to do likewise. He died at Raglan on 27 April 1866 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - William Naylor Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1851

By: Park, Robert, 1812-1870

Reference: A-114-012

Description: Shows, from left to right: Hine Paketia, Puhara, Alice Kranama, Te Uri He Kahekakariki, Hine Rangia, and Patuware. The group were all members of the Ngati Kahungugnu tribe. The women on the left was Queen Hineipatekia, sister of Te Hapuku. She was mentioned as "our Queen" in Te Hapuku's 1851 letter to Governor Grey disputing the price offered by the Crown for the land. His "favourite wife of 13 wives, Hine Rangia" is second from the right and his daughter is on the far right. Te Hapuku (Te Ika Nui o te Moana, paramount chief of the Ahuriri/Napier area) was responsible for selling the tribe's land to the Crown. This led to intertribal warfare for many years. Figures drawn on separate sheets and pasted on to background. Descriptive note signed: R. Park. Some Maori names spelt incorrectly. Note on back. A very similar watercolour is in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia. It is titled Natives of Ahuriri (Hawkes Bay) alive in 1851 and is signed by Robert Park Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title and names and roles of the subjects, in ink. The notes were added later than the drawing was made, since they include death dates after 1851 for a number of the subjects Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 10 x 13 1/2 inches

Date: 1857

By: Healey, Joan A, active 1994

Reference: A-255-022

Description: Frontal portrait, head and shoulders of an elderly tattooed Maori man, with white beard and moustache Probably sent back to England in the nineteenth century. The item was folded in half and may have been enclosed in a letter. Other Titles - Waiwhakaiho, New Plymouth Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Wei Tongata Waiwakaiho Taranaki N. Z.; Verso - This is a portrait of one of the oldest Maories in Taranaki. I have frequently been to his Whare or hut & I found him the best disposed & good natured Native i ever met with. A friend accompanied me on my last visit & took his likeness. The old man seemed much pleased & looked first in a looking glass & then at his portrait & said it was good. A. Shelley March 15 57 [in pencil]. Received June 12 / 1857 [in ink, possibly in another hand] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 150 x 119 mm

Date: 1851 - 1858

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871; Phillips, William Edward, active 1868

Reference: A-429-042

Description: Shows a view across the harbour towards the town buildings, with Plimmer's Ark noticeable on the foreshore, and the buildings of barracks on the more distant hill at the left. In the right foreground is a small jetty with a wooden hut or sentry box on the end of it, and wooden steps leading down to a moored rowing boat. In the left foreground a red canoe with a cargo possibly of fish or firewood is poled along by a seated tag-cloaked pipe-smoking figure, and a figure standing in a red cloak. The reflections of the canoe and the jetty and hut are clearly visible in the water in the foreground. Further away at the left are a yacht and a larger sailing ship seen end on. Attribution: Attributed to Gold on stylistic grounds, such as the reflections of the canoe and the awkwardness of the figures; see work by Gold at A-288-026. Another version of this watercolour, closely similar, is in Whanganui Museum, signed 'Dr Phillips pinxt'. The name Dr Phillips is not known as an artist resident in Wellington in the 1850s. One artist may have copied the other's work. William Edward Phillips registered as a medical practitioner in Nelson in 1867, but is not known to have been an artist Dating: Gold was based in Wellington between 1847 and 1858. 'Plimmer's Ark', the wrecked barque Inconstant, was moored at the junction of Lambton Quay and Willis Street from 1851 The sentry-box on the end of the wharf was located close to Government House, now the site of Parliament buildings, towards the north end of Lambton Quay Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 223 x 277 mm.

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-025-08

Description: A seated portrait of a Maori man, (Mapu of Poraiti Pa, Napier) with full moko, a white beard and short curly grey hair. He is wrapped in a blanket and has his right hand on his chest. Other Titles - Poraiti Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 145 x 130 mm

Date: 1859

From: Thomson, Arthur Saunders, 1817?-1860 :The story of New Zealand (London, John Murray, 1859).

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: PUBL-0144-1-front

Description: Shows a group of Maori men performing the haka. They are all jumping in the air simultaneously, grimacing, and holding their rifles diagonally across their chests with their right hands. Extended Title - From: Thomson, A. S. The story of New Zealand. (London, John Murray, 1859), volume 1, frontispiece. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 150 x 230 mm.

Date: 1849 - 1852 - 1851

From: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889: A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand

Reference: PUBL-0032-5

Description: Shows a Maori whare with porch and doorway, and a carved figure at the front end of the ridgepole. A man and woman in the left foreground, and three others figures stand or sit at the front of the whare. At the extreme right, two figures take a canoe to the water's edge. Another whare with a thatched roof appears in the bushes near the water. All figures are dressed in a mixture of traditional and European clothing, some in cloaks, some in blankets over shirts or dresses. Other Titles - Hauraki Pa There is also a two-tone lithograph of this image at C-054-008. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: 1 hand-coloured lithograph, 270 x 396 mm