Places

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: E-333-012

Description: Two versions of a rough map of southern Queen Charlotte Sound, showing Waitohi (Picton) with its port, Waikawa, Oyster Bay and Whatamango Bay Other Titles - Waitohi. Whatamango Inscriptions: Recto - Maori place names, some repeated. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on sheet 135 x 230 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: E-333-013

Description: View close to shore from a low hill, looking into Waikawa, the deep bay north-east of Picton Annotations identify Otamau and Teingaataurangi (to the north) Wooded valley & rise (to the east). Path to Tuaruarina (Tuamarina) & Nelson (to the south); also the length of the Waikawa Bay ('1 1/2 to 2 miles deep from Sound'). From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Other Titles - Picton Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink over pencil on sketchbook page, 135 x 195 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

Reference: C-103-048-1/5

Description: Includes three sketches of the surveyors Alfred Wills and Walter Mantell with tripods surveying in Otago; and two head and shoulders sketches of Kaiapoi Maori (Te Kawai and I Ki). The sketch of Mantell is by Wills. Other Titles - Southern District New Munster. Kakanui Quantity: 5 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, each 105 x 75-85 mm.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-066

Description: Rough sketch of Lake Wainono looking across to distant hills, marked, on the left 'To Morokura', and on the right [two illegible words, possibly Taramea and Tikurua] then 'Waihau' [i. e. Waihao River]. Along the edge of the page is a series of 5 comic views of Malmanche, Wills and Mantell or Hughes, attempting to cross a river in a mokihi or reed canoe, which sinks with the weight of the three men. A makeshift paddle is also shown, along with the axe lost in the failed attempt to use the canoe. Wainono Lagoon is on the coastal plain between the Hook and Waihao Rivers, Waimate District, South Canterbury Other Titles - Mokihi crossing the river Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: E-334-051

Description: 6 drawings on one page, showing from top left, two views of storage platforms titled Te Owiwa or Te Owina, and 'forries and futters' [whares and whatas]. The 3rd view is of a pa alongside a river, with a whare and a storage platform, the 4th of a large egg, possibly a moa's egg. The 5th is titled W te R. Remains of pa f... Hap 1851 and another illegible word. It shows several carved niu poles, and a cabbage tree, with a plain and hills beyond and an unidentified object in front on the ground. The 6th is titled Ruataniwha and dated Sept 7, and is signed A. W. (Alfred Wills). It shows a pa alongside a river, possibly the same site as no. 3, with a stand of bush behind it, at Ruataniwha (a name no longer in current use) Ruataniwha was the name of the pa on the site that eventually became Twizel, South Canterbury Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: E-333-016/017

Description: The left half of a two-page spread shows a map of Hapua Cove (Onapua Bay), Tory Channel and Port Underwood. Identifies Fly Cove or Port Underwood and marks the position of the old pa and the Mission station. The right hand side is a sketch of the bay 'Hapua Cove, Tory Channel, Q. C. S, from Mount Pisgah' showing the bay, Tory Channel,the west end of Arapawa Island (Heaphy Point) in the middle distance and further hills, possibly Mount Stokes in the background, identified as Totaranui Other Titles - Onapua Bay from Rahotia. Queen Charlotte Sound Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (two page spread). Physical Description: Pencil 135 x 140 on page 135 x 230 mm

Date: 1849

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-101

Description: Records the movements of Mantell, Alfred Wills, Captain Thomas, William Fox, and another man with the initial S. Mentions the ships Fly, Superior, and Kutusoff and their arrivals and departures at Akaroa. Quantity: 1 holograph. Physical Description: Ink, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-134/135

Description: A caricature of Alfred Wills and another surveyor standing perhaps on Mount Evans, looking north east across Lyttelton Harbour on the left to Godley Heads, Little Port Cooper (Big Bay) in the centre and the heads of Port Levy to the right. Inscriptions: Recto - Left image: P. Cooper; Recto - Right image: Little P.. Cooper Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 400 mm (double page size, inverted)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-062

Description: Surveyor Alfred Wills seated with his back to the artist, at the door of his tent. He appears to be eating a cooked bird. Otupua was close to the site of modern Timaru Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 18; Recto - beneath image - and to the right: Mr Wills on 18 Oct 1848 at Otupua. His dinner trapped & brkfast for 19th Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 70 x 100 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: E-333-019

Description: View from Whatamango Bay, Picton looking west into the Sound. Identifies Watamango in the foreground; Motungarara an island or small peninsula to the left; and Parororangi Range in the background Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - A Wills 1848. Aug Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil 135 x 230 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-051

Description: A tent in the left foreground with two men (Mantell and Alfred Wills) packing up their gear. At the entrance to the tent is a semi-circular shelter built of cabbage-tree branches and leaves, with a river and hills in the background From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on sketchbook page, 135 x 195 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852; Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910; Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-333-026/027

Description: Sketch on the right shows a view across a plain with small round ponds from a camp fire beneath overhanging rocks, 'Commissioner's Cave, Ototara. The sketch on the left shows a man with a broad-brimmed hat, and patched trousers, leaning against the walls of a small wooden shelter, with a table and cooking pots on the ground beside him. It appears to be a copy of F. E. Nairn's 'Rakitawine of Te Hakataramea, Waitaki' (original sketch located at C-103-080-1) The view from the rock shelter identified as 'Commissioner's Cave' Ototara from Alfred Wills' drawing 'View from Commissioner's Cave, Ototara, looking southwest. Three of the curious round ponds on the plain. [Oct/Nov, 1848]. The Commissioner was likely to be Mantell, Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 'Copied' [possibly from drawings by Alfred Wills and Francis Nairn] Quantity: 2 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on page, 135 x 230 mm.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-102

Description: Shows two houses on a steep cliff with a road beneath, probably the beginning of what became the Sumner Road at Lyttelton On the same page continuing from page 101 is the unfinished list of the movements of Mantell, Alfred Wills, William Fox, Captain Thomas and another man with the initial S around Banks Peninsula, January 1849 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 60 x 103 (inverted)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-048

Description: Two drawings and dairy notes on one page. On the left, is a coastal scene looking south, with the survey camp tents on the beach, and a caricature of Alfred Wills in a dunce's cap in the foreground, inscribed Rakaia, Sun 1 Oct and 'By caricaturing only himself a man man render himself ridiculous but not odious.' Top right, diary notes for 1 October. Bottom right, another beach scene with a tent, looking north towards a cliff, with the name Kauwaukakao, corrected to Tauwaukakao 2 Oct. Inscriptions: Recto - Bottom sketch: note beside caricature reads: By caricaturing only himself a man may render himself ridiculous but not odious Quantity: 2 drawing(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: E-333-011

Description: Identifies Bluff Hill; Mr Wills [i.e. the artist, seated sketching to one side, a sunhat on his head]; John McCormack's farmhouse with outhouses in the centre foreground, and in the background, Moeraki, Little Kuri Wood and Te Kuri Wood. Appears to be two or possibly three landscapes on top of one another, with the lowest view looking along Moeraki Beach from the south and the highest view looking along the beach from the north. From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Quantity: 3 drawing(s) on sketchbook page.. Physical Description: Ink, 85 x 230 mm, and 100 x 230 mm, on sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm.

Date: 1848 - 1849

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-124

Description: Alfred Wills walking south on a beach about to round a bluff on the South Canterbury coastline. View south of Arowhenua looking north up the coastline Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (top image) Mr Wills at the end of the 90 mile beach; Recto - above image - (Bottom image) Arowenua [Arowhenua] and lower left, `From above' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-039

Description: A scene at Waitaki showing Te Wharekorari seated on the left and Alfred Wills, one of Mantell's fellow-surveyors and travelling companions, wearing a large hat and lying on the ground on the right, with two other men in the middle distance on the banks of the Waitaki. In the background are distinctive hills, including one shaped like a mayor's hat or an elephant's back. Te Wharekorari is also shown and named on page 35 of the sketchbook. This view is a preliminary one for a watercolour 'Messrs Wills and Wharekorari looking at the Mayor ... alias Elephant, Pokowaikawa - Waikawa' (C-103-039) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on page, 135 x 230 mm.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: E-333-021

Description: Shows Paton's homestead, Epsom, and five identified faces; Mrs Potini Matiu; Hurihia Moeraki; Te Kauai; Ripeka Korako 90; a male labelled M [Walter Mantell?]. Presumably refers to Epsom in Auckland, possibly drawn on board `Fly'. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Six pencil sketches on page 135 x 230 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-068

Description: In the upper sketch, four European men alongside a small tent, with two Maori, gathering sticks (possibly flax stalks) to make a small reed boat or mokihi. They are close to the mouth of the Waihao River, with the sea and coastline visible beyond them. In the lower view, low hills and coastling. The text 'Ye historie of ye moki by W. M. Right merrily ...' has been crossed out, lower right. Wainono Lagoon is on the coastal plain between the Hook and Waihao Rivers, Waimate District, South Canterbury Other Titles - Waihao mokihi Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-053

Description: Top left, 'Mr Wills as he appeared while sketching at Tarawata's Kaik' shows Alfred Wills standing on a beach, with the kainga (kaik) in the background. He has a sketchpad in his hands. Top centre, a (Maori?) man's face, the back view probably of Wills, with a broad-brimmed hand and a pack on his back and a side view of a seated dog. Top right and across the bottom, diary notes for 3 to 7 October. '5 October - reached Waiteruati. 7 October visited the plantation behind the kaik ... Huirapa - Tarawata not yet taken' Tarawhata was the son of Ngai Tahu rangatira, Te Rehe Other Titles - Tarawhata Inscriptions: Recto - Top of page: Oct 3-7; Recto - top left - Beneath one sketch: Mr Wills as he appeared while sketching `Terawata's Kaik Quantity: 2 drawing(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)