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Date: [ca 1919-ca 1920s], 1950

From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: PAColl-9928-27

Description: Loose prints from album and album pages at PA1-o-1818, PAColl-9928-25 and PAColl-9928-26, chiefly images relating to the Presbyterian mission in the Whakatane District, taken circa 1919 to circa 1920s by unidentified photographers. Also four postcards taken in Rotorua district circa 1920s including Whakarewarewa village. Also two school group portraits taken 1950 and circa 1950 of Maori school girls, possibly from Turakina Maori Girls' College. The images show, chiefly unidentified, Maori children and adults, also people working for, or visiting, the mission. Pictures include: - groups of Maori school children, some outside school buildings, some with teachers. A P Godber photographed one of these groups at Te Whaiti school. - Rev John George Laughton wearing Maori shoulder cape. - group outside the manse, Maungapohatu. - portrait of young Maori girls Merihi Tamahou and Rawhina Ripaki, taken January 1920. Relationship complexity - Some of these images, and information regarding them, may be found in an article published in Te Ao Hou, Number 73, July 1973, pages 27 to 34, titled 'Memories of Waiohau' by E E Little. A copy is filed in the Binney backfile in Photographic Archive. Quantity: 81 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1958-1959

From: Rowe, John, 1928?-: Transparencies

Reference: PA12-11504

Description: Transparency slides taken by John Rowe, 1958 to 1959. Seven images show the exterior of Miringa Te Kakara near Tiroa and Benneydale, taken circa 1954, 1958, and 1959. Various members of Rowe's tramping party are visible in some of the photographs. Likely people include John Kendrick, Rowe's wife Stella, [Hedvig?], and G B Wilson. Two buildings (cruciform house with bark roof and circular building with tin roof) are framed by surrounding farmland. Some images also inculde a wooden cart and pou. Set also includes images of two sites in Te Urewera. Two slides from 1958 show the remains of a pa palisade on the "upper Te Whaiti River". John Kendrick stands beside carved poles in both photographs. Stella also appears with Kendrick in one of the images. A photograph from a 1959 excursion to Mataatua shows three women in tramping outfits [including Stella?] standing in front of a carved whare. The whare, which is partially falling down, features walls of adzed totora and a totora bark roof. Quantity: 10 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dufaycolour 35mm film transparencies in annotated card mounts

Date: 1959

From: Alexander, John Hood, 1916-1975 :[Twenty drawings, including of historic houses, churches, Mangapohatu, Waimate North, the first Bank of New Zealand in Auckland, and Auckland Public Library 1880. 1950s-1960s]

Reference: B-192-016

Description: An exterior view of the wharepuni (sealed house) at Rua's Stronghold. A Maori man sits cross-legged in front of the house, while a woman tends to making a kohua (three-legged metal pot) of food. On the left in the background, a rock shaped like a thumb can be seen; this is Maungapohatu, burial place of the Urewera chiefs over the centuries. Originally the wharepuni was used during the winter months, being sealed and warm; this type of dwelling died out once the use of European garments and blankets became more widespread Other Titles - Wharepuni at Rua's Stronghold Other Titles - Old-time Maori wharepuni in the Urewera Extended Title - In: Alexander, John H: 'Historic New Zealand buildings: a folio of pen and wash paintings with text by John H. Alexander (1961) Inscriptions: Verso - top right - No.X7 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on page 305 x 415 mm