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Date: 1959-1976

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

Reference: 77-014-1/19A

Description: Papers relating to Maoritanga including research papers, articles, correspondence and stories. Includes whakatauki (proverbs), a poem/song called "The Song of Maoritanga," an article about Maori education and educators' attitudes to the cultural heritage of Maori youth, a Maori Land Court interim decision on Raharuhi Rukupo delivered at Gisborne 19 Sep 1975, some notes about moemoea (dreams) and their interpretation within the Maori culture, an article by Fowler titled "The teaching of Maori in schools," papers relating to the significance of tukutuku patterns for Ngati Porou and other articles relating to various topics including Wharepuni [sleeping houses], a Maori almanac (re: fishing and planting), a draft story of "The taniwha of Tuparoa" and some loose papers relating to Fowler's autobiography. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1950

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0470

Description: Contains essays and notes, one regarding the Ngata Memorial Hall in Waiomatatini, one entitled `The Savage hits back', an essay on Taranaki history, a waiata entitled `He Tangi Na Turaukawa' and other waiata. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1957-1976

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

Reference: 77-014-2/01E

Description: Loose papers relating to The Road to Whangara [book] includes notes relating to East Coast Maori history, place names and whakapapa. Includes correspondence from H Te Kani Te Ua relating to Ngati Kanohi whakapapa [typewritten copy of letter] and an incomplete draft of a letter by Fowler written on The Remuera Book Exchange letterhead, which names Fowler as the proprietor and is dated 1976. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Two black and white photographic prints one of a group of Maori sitting on a shady bank by a car with an unidentified Maori woman in the foreground, and the photograph is of three Maori men inside a carved meeting house iwth microphones, so possibly being recorded for a broadcast.

Date: [1769-1958]

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

Reference: 77-014-5/12

Description: Papers relating to Maori history including whakapapa, waiata and correspondence relating to Fowler's novel 'Brown Conflict'. Also includes a copy of typescript `The Storehouse of Hine-mati-oro' also known as 'Te Rakau Tamatea Reke' (p.1 & 4 only); several East Coast genealogies or whakapapa relating to Te Kooti Riki Rangi, Ngati Ira and Ngati Porou. Also an article: `On some Maori place names'; and an outline for `The Road to Whangara'. Also includes a 5 page manuscript [written in an unknown hand] of various versions of the Ngati Kahungunu oriori 'Pinepine te kura', one version is attributed to Te Kooti Rikirangi. Language - Some material in Maori including whakapapa and waiata Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1958-1960

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

Reference: 77-014-1/09

Description: Correspondence with Maharaia [Maha] Winiata from the Auckland Education Centre at the University of Auckland relating to the promotion and organisation of Maori education and leadership events, also relating to Maori land utilisation or farming, particularly on the East Coast, Te Tai Rawhiti. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1958-1960

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

Reference: 77-014-1/15

Description: Various papers relating to Maori history and culture. Includes Maori concert programmes, papers on Maori land ownership of Mangatu (blocks 1, 3 and 4), pounamu or greenstone manufacture and types of stone, a pamphlet about Te Porere battle site, a letter to Bruce Mason [editor of Te Ao Hou] about an article Fowler was planning about the Hui Topu and notes from recordings from "Takipu and Mangatu huis" 1958, and various waiata including some by Arnold Reedy from 1935. Also some papers relating to Maori plant names and a letter from Bernard Teague of Wairoa. Also includes a photograph of a Maori carving and a satirical poem "Let's cook the Maori". Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1955-1974

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

Reference: 77-014-4/14

Description: Correspondence, notes on articles, articles on Maori place names, photos, maps, newspaper clippings and abstracts of radio programmes based on Maori whaling on the East Coast and Te Kaha history. Correspondence includes letters relating to Fowler's writing and publications, including some correspondence in French relating to an article that Fowler wrote in Landfall that was being translated into French for inclusion in the Ethno-psychologie journal. Correspondence also from Eric Ramsden and Charles Brasch. Language - Two letters in French Language - Some notes relating to Maori phrases Quantity: 1 folder(s). One black and white photographic print of a kapa haka group taken from above.

Date: [1950s?]

From: [Maori choir performances]

By: Hiruharama Māori School; Woods, John Joseph, 1849-1934

Reference: MSD12-0346

Description: Label: National Broadcasting Service NBS M1 and M2 Other Titles - Tupona mai (Wenceslaus) / Hiruharama Native School Choir Other Titles - God defend New Zealand / [Woods] ; Hiruharama Native School Choir and orchestra Quantity: 1 12" disc(s).

Date: [1950-1960]

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

Reference: 77-014-4/09

Description: Manuscript of `Good Oh, Joe'; `The Keys'; `The Housegirl'; `Bully Hayes' and `Bully Hayes II'; `Bully Hayes III' ; `What Happened to the Endeavour' ; `Whaling on the East Coast'; `Chinese on Otago Goldfields'; `Thoughts on a Buggy Lamp II' and `Counting sheep'. The story 'Whaling on the East Coast' includes some loan words in Maori for whaling terms. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1954

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12777-07-04

Description: Includes words of Te Arawa and Ngāti Tūwharetoa haka; pōwhiri; Posture dance by Ngāti Tūwharetoa; Poi dance by Te Arawa; Mataatua tribes action dance; Taihauauru Poi Aotea, Whakapapa Kawai Rangatira, He Ngeri; Haka Waka Atua; Ngati Porou tribe women's haka of welcome; men's ceremonial haka. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet, 38 pages, 220 x 144 mm. Processing information: Combined into ATL-Group-00753, October 2022. Previous reference: Eph-A-ROYAL-1954-01.

Date: [1951-1952]

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

Reference: 77-014-2/10D

Description: Miscellaneous papers including some chapters of a book on tangihanga and Maori-Pakeha relations, and some papers relating to the Gisborne Museum "Maori wing" and others relating to Fowler's time as Director of Broadcasting in Samoa. Includes a plan of Raukawa "whare wananga" in Otaki which includes the names of the poupou, drawn by Te Matenga Baker in 1936. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1953

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

Reference: 77-014-1/06C

Description: Auckland sheet no. 5, cadastral map, 1953. Also an Automobile Association map of Auckland [date unknown], and a MS map on tracing paper of the Awapuni area between Gisborne and Wairoa, showing riverbed areas that had dried up and an outlet area of the Awapuni river of 1841, includes Kaupapa, Whakato, Umukapua, Orakaiapu and Pa o Kahu. 1953 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1959 - 1962

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-Competitions-1900s

Description: Includes: 1959: Annual Maori competitions. Opera House Gisborne. 19 September [1959]. Compere Rev R Rangiaho. (Haka include: Ruamoko, Kura Tiwaka Taua, and Paikea). Souvenir programme 1960: Annual Maori competitions. Opera House Gisborne. 2 September [1960]. Compere Rev R Rangiaho. (Includes Haka Taparahi). Souvenir programme 1961: Annual Maori competitions. Opera House Gisborne. 1 September [1961]. Compere Rev A Takurua (Includes words of "Te Urunga Tu, Te Urunga Pae"; and the "Ngeri" - Ka mate! Ka mate!) 1962: Annual Maori competitions. Opera House Gisborne. 31 August - 1 September [1962]. Compere Rev A Takurua. Souvenir programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and programmes, sizes varying up to 250 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1954

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1950/1954

Description: Includes: 1950s: Aotearoa; greetings from New Zealand. Kia ora Katoa. Regal greeting card 2OX3-9W [1950s?] Hot pool cooking, N.Z. [Postcard. 1950s?] New Zealand tattoed Maori. Produced by G B Scott, photographer, Auckland H26-12 [Greeting card. 1950s?] Real photographs for your snapshot album. Maori. Published by Tanner Bros. Ltd [1950s?] NZ Post Office. Public relations Division. Who first discovered New Zealand? [1950s?] Pamphlet 1950: Micromodels Ltd (London) :Three dimensional volumetric micromodels. Maori war canoe. Set S.XV [ca 1950] Ngati Poneke Maori Association. Dance at Ngati Poneke Hall, 2 August 1950. With the Royal Hawaiians Dance Band. Invitation card Rangiatea Centennial Celebration. Service of thanksgiving & benediction for the centenary & restoration of Rangiatea. Otaki, 18 March 1950. Order of service (2 copies) Rangiatea Church Otaki. Centennial celebrations, 18 March 1950. Invitation card to the Evening Post Representative and Photographer Rangiatea Centennial Celebration. Souvenir programme [for various events]. March 1950. Tainui Canoe sexcentennial celebrations 1350-1950. Turangawaewae Pa, Ngaruawahia, 5-10 October 1950. Souvenir programme 1951: Pukekaraka Hui Aranga Katorika 1951 (the annual Easter hui of the Federated Catholic Maori Clubs of the Archdicoese of Wellington). 22-26 March 1951 at Pukekaraka, Otaki. Souvenir programme. 1952: The Maori as he was, by Elsdon Best. Pamphlet / order form [1952?] Valedictory dinner tendered by the staff of the Maori Affairs Department to Robert Preshaw Dykes, esq, Judge of the Maori Land Court, on his retirement. wanganui, 21 November 1952. Menu 1953: Te Hinota Maori (Maori Presbyterian Synod), "Te Maungarongo", Ohope, 16 May 1953. Service of dedication. Maori and English on alternate pages. 1954-1857: A traditionally carved Maori meeting house; a new amenity for Wellington and the Hutt Valley. 7000 [pounds] already raised. Will you help? Pamphlet [1954-1957] (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: [1955-1956]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-33

Description: Comprises further notes on former occupation and archaeology of the country east of Wellington Harbour (with maps); bone fish-hook shank and pumice net float, Wellington; adze with longitudinally ridged anterior surface; nose stone, Tirau, Central Waikato; old Maori sites at Ohau and Te Ika-a-Maru Bays, south-west Wellington (with map); some notes on the stone walls at Waikaretu by C H Hunt, Raglan (with map); Arrangement: Notebook no 32 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1950-1972

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

Reference: 77-014-6/05

Description: Papers relating to broadcasting, including programme notes; correspondence (1950-1972); report on broadcasting in Western Samoa, compiled and written by Fowler; notes on recordings at Te Kaha and Hicks Bay. Also includes a document relating to 'Talks in Maori' and some papers relating to Fowler's novel 'Brown Conflict'. A drawing related to Fowler's novel 'Brown Conflict' was put in a new folder while enhancement work on the collection was done in 2014. This is now located at MSI-Papers-11554. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Material in this folder was extracted from the file named 'Te Kani Te Ua' [which is in 77-014-6/04?], and also from Box 5 and Box 1 of the Leo Fowler papers [when initially arranged and described].

Date: [ca 1950s]

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

Reference: 77-014-6/13

Description: Research papers including papers relating to costings for construction of museum display cases, a speech on the value of museums; appeal to the Maori community; list of works printed by Colenso (1835-1852); notes on the meeting houses `Hauteananui-o-Tangaroa'; Te Kani-a-Takirau; Mariu-te-Rangi; issues and clippings from Whakatane & District Historical Society newsletter; `Peculiar pilgrimage, memories of W Bauke (Banke)', Otorohanga (1950s); and a copy of a letter from James W Stack and notes relating to Maori manufacture of greenstone [pounamu]. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1928-1957

From: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5220-021

Description: Includes correspondence, telegrams, demographic surveys and electoral pamphlets supporting P Jones electoral candidacy for the Western Maori seat in the National Party from people and organisations like the Kingitanga: also includes pamphlets and flyers for other political groups for seats like the Eastern Maori Seat; the demographic surveys contain the number of voters from almost all of the Tainui - Waikato iwi; also contains the minutes of the National Party Western Maori Seat meetings Other Titles - Constitution and Rules of the National Party 1951 Pei a Western Maori candidate Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: [1950-1970s?]

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

Reference: 77-014-6/03

Description: Papers including correspondence, typescripts, research notes, waiata and ephemera. Includes typescripts of articles on tapu and the whare wananga. Includes a waiata 'He mahi kai ano' with translation and words by Sir Apirana Ngata. A letter from Glover, Apia, 17 Feb 1950, re: Deeken. Also includes a page of notes relating to 'Rangiuia's lament'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). One colour photographic print

Date: 1955-1969

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

Reference: 77-014-1/08

Description: Papers mainly relating to archaeology in New Zealand includes New Zealand Archaeological Association papers from 1960-61 and articles and correspondence. Includes correspondence with Jack Golson of the Anthropology Department at the Auckland University College [from 1957] and some published papers including the NZAA newsletter vol 4, no 4, Sept 1961, a pamphlet advertising a symposium at Victoria University on "Maori origins and migrations" which occurred on Oct 20-22, 1962, a guide to field archaelogy in New Zealand by J Golson, and a paper on "The Cathedral Church of St Paul, Wellington. The case for its preservation" published by the Historic Places Trust. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Two black and white photographic prints of parts of an unknown wharenui.