Places

Date: 1858

By: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922

Reference: MapColl-832.2at/1858/Acc.377

Description: Map of Taranaki district depicting Maori geographical placenames around the coastline from Ngati Maniapoto, Ngati Maru, Taranaki and Ngati Whatua. Similar to but not identical with ms map held by Alexander Turnbull Library (see Acc.376). Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 22 x 18 cm.

Date: [189-?]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-020

Description: Comprises notes in Best's hand, notes by S P Smith and letters to Smith. Among the variety of material are notes on Hau, a West Coast ancestor and his journey to Paekakariki; traditional history of early ancestor Tutahanga and fighting between Ngati Maru and Ngapuhi; whakapapa from Karepa Te Uira to Tamarere Ahu II; queries and notes about Ngati Ira and early Wellington; brief notes and whakapapa of Ngati Maru; a waiata from Whanake; many items relating to Wellington Maori place names, iwi, chiefs and history and other fragments of North Island Maori history. Includes two letters from W H Skinner to S P Smith, 1894. Also contains notes about the Ngati Toa and Taranaki chiefs leading the migrations to the Horowhenua and Wellington regions, and their conflicts with the Muaupoko; Ngati Apa; Rangitane and Ngati Kahungunu. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed listing of folder contents available in inventory.

Date: 11-12 Dec 1874

Reference: MS-Papers-2520

Description: Account of a meeting held at Thames on 11 and 12 Dec to discuss payment for the Ohinemuri goldfield. The meeting was attended by Sir Donald McLean, James MacKay, Edward Walter Puckey and chiefs and members of the Ngati Maru, Ngati Tamatera, Ngati Whanaunga and Ngati Paoa tribes. Source of title - Transcribed Authorship of the document is unknown Quantity: 1 folder(s) (28 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: No details about the provenance of the document are available other than that it was found under a pile of newspapers in a cupboard in a house at Te Anau in about 1975. How it came to be there could not be established at that time.

Date: [ca 1895-1898]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-163

Description: Notes on many topics, including: whakapapa, tribal notes, whakatauki (proverbs), fights, etc. Also includes waiata from Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Toa, Taranaki and Ngati Kuia (many of the waiata and karakia of Ngati Kuia were contributed by Eruera Pakauwera), and tribal stories and notes by Te Karehana Whakataki about Ngati Toa and Tainui. Also contains an accompanying letter from W Mair, Nov 8, 1898. Language - (and English) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (414 pages). Physical Description: Holograph, ms and typescript

Date: [ca 1893-1895]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-037

Description: Includes correspondence and notes to S P Smith; lists of Maori informants; copies of questions sent to various informants; notes on incidents involving Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Toa and Te Ati Awa, including their migrations to Wellington, and on place names in the greater Wellington area; rough indexes to notes; waiata and haka; whakapapa of Ngati Raukawa, Mahu and Taewa and Ngati Ira and Whanganui notes from his 1895 field trip. Includes a long letter from Kerehoma Tuwhawhakia of Kaiwhaiki to 1895 with waiata by Naapea Nganawheuru. Contains waiata from the Ngati Toa-Raukawa tribes from the middle and late 19th century periods including the haka of Upokoiti, the patere of Manomano and the story of Kaihamu, great grandfather of Toa Rangatira. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed listing available in inventory.

Date: 1857 - 1858

By: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922

Reference: MapColl-832.2at/1858/Acc.376

Description: Map of Taranaki district depicting Maori geographical placenames around the coastline from Ngati Maniapoto, Ngati Maru, Taranaki and Ngati Whatua. Enlargement of original. `Diary of a journey to Taupo, Rotorua, Rangitikei from Taranaki' by S. Percy Smith, (New Plymouth, 1858) was republished as 'An 1858 journey into the interior' by S. Percy Smith (New Plymouth: Taranaki Herald, 1953). Similar to but not identical with a ms map (see copy Acc. 377) held by New Plymouth Public Library. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 40 x 32 cm.

Date: 1910

By: Gudgeon, Walter Edward, 1841-1920

Reference: Micro-MS-0811

Description: Description of his life, with emphasis on his term as Resident Commissioner to the Cook Islands 1899-1909 (entitled `A journal of my residence in the South Seas and the causes that led to that residence, 1898-1909'); some details of the New Zealand wars, Maori genealogies. Source of title - Transcribed Other - Pages 242 and 247 appear on the microfilm between pages 219 and 220. Page 220 shows as a reversed (mirror) image. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 250 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1829 - 1830

By: Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Company; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-092-009

Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of a Maori man, with feathers in his topknot and curls at the side of his head, a red semi-circle below the hairline on his forehead, and a pattern of dots around his eyes. He is wearing a greenstone earring in his right ear and a kiwi-feather cloak. Other Titles - Ngati Maru Hauraki Stamp on verso: Webster Collection 1444. Inscriptions: Recto - between the image and the printed title: Adic Hator age 23 1829 New Zealand Oct 1st. [pen & ink] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured on sheet 300 x 243 mm

Date: [1910]

By: Gudgeon, Walter Edward, 1841-1920

Reference: fMS-079

Description: Autobiography with related documents including many Maori genealogies. Includes description of his time as Resident Commissioner to the Cook Islands, 1899-1909 entitled `A journal of my residence in the South Seas and the causes that led to that residence', (68pp & 3 pp related) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (loose leaves tied between boards). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (photocopies) (loose leaves tied between boards)

Date: 1893-1894, nd

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-106

Description: Contains (a) letters to S P Smith and Edward Tregear, Omahu Puriri, 1893-1894 (b) Manuscript of Maori, Tangata Maori, the first 11 pages of which appear to have been published in the JPS with additional waiata and translation by S P Smith (JPS v3 p27). The rest seems to remain unpublished. Contains much traditional history. The letters contain information about attempts to date the settlement of New Zealand from Hawaiki using whakapapa and discrepancies between the whakapapa of various iwi, the transfer of Hawaiki placenames to New Zealand, and information associated with the arrival of the Tainui canoe; there are also whakapapa, waiata and proverbs and explanations of the proverbs, and notes about the Maori division of time; there are also notes about 19th century conflicts between Ngapuhi and Ngati Maru, and about Ngapuhi claims to the Kingitanga and associated titles Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1828 - 1830

By: Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Company; Ellis, Donald Grant, 1937-2010

Reference: A-092-019-a

Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of a Maori man, with feathers in his topknot, moko, a small beard, greenstone earrings and tiki and a shoulder cape with a taniko border. Published as a pair with 'Adic Hator' (A-092-009) The attribution to Ngati Maru as "Feedee's" iwi is derived both from the area he is described as inhabiting - "Howdrucke" or Hauraki - and by comparison with the matching lithograph "Adic Hator" (A-092-009), described as being of the "Nar-te-mar-lu Tribe". "Feedee" may more correctly be "Whiti" or "Te Whiti". The copy of this print in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection bears the inscription in pencil: "J.B. April 28 1828", while one of the Turnbull's copies of "Adic Hator" bears an ink inscription: "Adic Hator age 23 1829 New Zealand October 1st". The Turnbull's third copy of "Adic Hator" (A-092-009-b) was purchased with information from London Booksellers Francis Edwards Ltd: "feedee and Hator came to England with Mr J Johnson, a trader, after their district had been ravaged by Shungi [Hongi], a powerful chief. They travelled all over the country, and gave exhibitions of Maori manners and customs. This information was obtained from two hand bills advertising their intended visits to Carmathen and Evesham in 1829. These hand bills with copies of the portraits are now in the possession of the Hocken Library. An example of the work of pioneer lithographer Godefroy Engelmann, who established the firm Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. in London in 1826, closing it in 1830. See Ellis, E.M. & D.G. Early Prints of New Zealand (1978), p.73-74 for further details. Other Titles - Whiti Hauraki Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (hand-coloured) ; 298 x 241 mm Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Don G. Ellis of Sydney and of Christchurch, author of Early Prints of New Zealand (1978)

Date: 1880-1912, n d

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-206

Description: Includes various papers for whom authorship is generally unknown: An address to the Polynesian Society (16 leaves); a paper on Ngati Whiti history and traditions, Omahu, 26 and 27 Oct 1880, in Maori (possibly by Paramena Te Naonao)(a translation is in JPS v 21 p 83, and there is a note on the back in Elsdon Best's hand dated 5 Apr 1912); A typescript copy of comments on Easter Island by James Cook (with a note in S P Smith's hand "from Mr Kenworthy"); a waiata in Best's hand titled Waiata tangi by Tukua-te-rangi Tutakangahau for his daughter Marewa-i-te-rangi, who died 13 Sep 1897, of Tamakamoana hapu, Tuhoe; a waiata (Kimikimi noa ana ahau, i to kunenga mai i Hawaiki...) by Rangitokoru for his child, and proverbs, supplied by Hetaraka Wakanua and Numia Kereru, 25 Nov 1897; waiata tangi for Tukorehu (Tahuna mai te ahi ki runga i a te Poa...), with translation and a note by Smith saying see Ngamoteatea p 33; waiata aroha (Kaore te aroha e awhea mai nei kei to ngohi pawhara) and other notes (typescript with translation and explanations of waiata, with a note saying "translations verified by Mr George Wilson); a partial index for the early volumes of the JPS; a typescript of the Rarotongan legend No Angene teia tuatua; and a genealogical chart showing the connection of various prominent families of the Waikato and Hauraki districts, including a genealogy of Ngati-Pou (or Uri-o-pou). Also includes information about the Maori division of time and related astronomical knowledge Language - Also material in Cook Island Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: See inventory for full description of content of this folder.

Date: nd, 1800-1929

By: Rae, Elsie Alice, 1911-2002; Rae, Kenneth William, 1909-1986

Reference: MSX-9366

Description: 'History of the Western Hauraki Plains', compiled by Elsie Alice McDonald (later Mrs Rae), focusses on the geology, landscape, and social history of the Western Hauraki Plains in the Waikato Region. McDonald's history has a preface and two parts: "Pt 1 The Maori" and "Pt 2 The Pakeha". In Part I subjects covered include pa sites and fortifications, burial sites and traditions, eeling, and conflict with other tribes, including Ngapuhi under Hongi Hika. Part II focusses on the development of the land for dairying and flax farming, the discovery of taonga during development, the building of houses, various personalities, and social events such as dances. Places specifically mentioned include: Kahurangi Pa, Torehape stream, Patetonga, and Mangawhero. Illustrations attributed to Kenneth William Rae (later McDonald's husband). Includes pasted in photographs. See Illustrations field for further information. Includes two commendations on the title page, one being from Duncan McFadyen Rae (principal of Auckland Training College and no relation) and the other from a person with the initials "F C L". Notes and remarks in pencil throughout the volume are in an unknown hand. Source of title - Transcribed from item Relationship complexity - Two spiral bound facsimiles of this item are held in the National Library's published collections: Wellington, New Zealand Pacific (PAM 993.327 MCD 2002) and Alexander Turnbull, New Zealand Pacific (P 993 MACD 2002). Elsie Alice Rae grew up on a farm in Hauraki District before moving to Auckland to train as a teacher. She compiled 'History of the Western Hauraki Plains' when she was 17, during her first year at Auckland Teachers College. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, watercolours, photographs Illustrations are watercolours, unless otherwise specified, and all images are attributed to Kenneth William Rae. Photographs are taken circa 1920s. Illustration titles are as follows: 'Map of the Western Hauraki Plains' (including key); a stylised tiki; 'The disappearing stream, Torehape'; 'The Maori - Kahurangi' composite illustration of two images of Kahurangi pa captioned "conjecture" and "evidence", two pen drawings of carved wooden panels, and one photograph of the pa site captioned "truth"; 'The site of the Mission Station, Patetonga'; 'Patetonga's first house'; pen drawings 'The cream launch' and 'On the swamp land'; and two photographs 'The remains of the Patetonga Mill' and 'The hill above Mangawhero'.

Date: 1828 - 1830

By: Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Company

Reference: A-092-019

Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of a Maori man, with feathers in his topknot, moko, a small beard, greenstone earrings and tiki and a shoulder cape with a taniko border. Published as a pair with 'Adic Hator' (A-092-009) The attribution to Ngati Maru as "Feedee's" iwi is derived both from the area he is described as inhabiting - "Howdrucke" or Hauraki - and by comparison with the matching lithograph "Adic Hator" (A-092-009), described as being of the "Nar-te-mar-lu Tribe". "Feedee" may more correctly be "Whiti" or "Te Whiti". The copy of this print in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection bears the inscription in pencil: "J.B. April 28 1828", while one of the Turnbull's copies of "Adic Hator" bears an ink inscription: "Adic Hator age 23 1829 New Zealand October 1st". The Turnbull's third copy of "Adic Hator" (A-092-009-b) was purchased with information from London Booksellers Francis Edwards Ltd: "Feedee and Hator came to England with Mr J Johnson, a trader, after their district had been ravaged by Shungi [Hongi], a powerful chief. They travelled all over the country, and gave exhibitions of Maori manners and customs. This information was obtained from two hand bills advertising their intended visits to Carmathen and Evesham in 1829. These hand bills with copies of the portraits are now in the possession of the Hocken Library. Other Titles - Whiti Hauraki An example of the work of pioneer lithographer Godefroy Engelmann, who established the firm Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. in London in 1826, closing it in 1830. See Ellis, E.M. & D.G. Early Prints of New Zealand (1978), p.73-74 for further details. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (hand-coloured) ; 244 x 214 mm

Date: 1864, 1867-1868

By: Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki, -1893

Reference: MS-Group-0087

Description: The notebook contains an account of Te Kooti's visions during his detention on the Chatham Islands. Also included are lists of names. The notebook would appear to be in Te Kooti's hand. Publication - Partial translations were published in the `Nelson Examiner' 5 May 1869, and `The Monthly Review' March 1889 Accompanying material - Accompanied by translations of pages numbered in red, 1-25 (8 pages) and points of interest (2 pages) Other - Cover title: Const. Brennan. The notebook appears to have one time been the property of Constable Frederick Brennan who was stationed on the Chatham Islands in 1867. He had used the notebook before Te Kooti acquired it. Other - For further information see Richard Hill `Te Kooti's Notebook' Archifacts 13 (March 1980), and Judith Binney `Redemption songs. A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki' (1995), pp 328-334 Te Kooti, a military leader and prophet was founder of the Ringatu religion. He was imprisoned for sedition in March 1866 and transported to the Chatham Islands where he received celestial visions. He escaped to the mainland and carried out his mission for sometime before seeking refuge among his followers. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (87 leaves). 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss (and photocopy) Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 30 September 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile..

Date: [188-?]

By: Gudgeon, Walter Edward, 1841-1920

Reference: Micro-MS-0179

Description: Genealogies of Hawkes Bay, Poverty Bay and Northland tribes; index and some vocabulary included Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 100 frames).

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-104

Description: Contains whakapapa from Ngati Awa, Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Porou and Wairarapa; also contains detailed information about the Takitimu canoe and its crew; waiata , karakia; notes about the settlement of the South Island by various iwi with extensive information about Kai Tahu; notes about native dogs, and narratives about the Ngati Kahungunu ancestor Maahu as well as nineteenth century tribal conflicts. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume). Physical Description: Mss Black exercise book

Date: 1947

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-1/05

Description: Record list of the Thames Valley and Waikato tour of the Mobile Recording Unit of NZBC and other loose papers. Topics covered in the interviews include early settler and Maori history of Thames and Waikato, including Morrinsville, Te Aroha, Hauraki Gulf, Coromandel, Paeroa, Pirongia, Te Awamutu and Huntly. Includes some details about the interviews with Sir Stephan Allen and Missy Mary Ann Turnbull of Morrinsville, Toki Watene and R W Hammond of Thames, Kapa Potae of Kennedy Bay (Coromandel), C H Hovell [Charlie], Hoane Te Huia of Paeroa, Mr H A Swarbrick relating to the missionary period, and Raureti Te Huia and Te One Haereiti of Te Awamutu. Some of the interviews were conducted in Maori mostly relating to early Maori and Pakeha settler history of the Waikato and Thames area, also recordings of waiata, whakatauki, whakapapa etc. Also includes a biography of Mr George Shaw of Wilson & Shaw, Huntly, and a story about Te Rauparaha's lament, [relating to leaving Kawhia] and English translation. Language - Some notes about interviews recorded in Maori. Quantity: 1 folder(s). One photograph of a family. One young girl, one young boy and a teenage girl, possibly Fowler's family?

Date: 1925-1954

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-2/03

Description: Historical articles [and drafts] relating to Maori, Pakeha and Chinese on the New Zealand goldfields. Also includes synopses of recordings and a manuscript for "Ah Wong, the gold seeker". Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1829 - 1830

By: Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Company

Reference: A-092-009-a

Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of a Maori man, with feathers in his topknot and curls at the side of his head, a red semi-circle below his hairline on his forehead, and a pattern of dots around his eyes. He is wearing a greenstone earring in his right ear and a kiwi-feather cloak. Other Titles - Ngati Maru Hauraki Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured on sheet 244 x 211 mm Transfers: See full details for A-092-009-b.