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Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Hadfield, Octavius, 1814-1904

Reference: A-241-015

Description: Otaki Maori church with a small house to its right, the cemetery on the hill behind, fences and bush Photocopy of a pencil drawing in Auckland Museum, reference number PD 52 (19). The Library also has a photograph of this drawing, a better-quality copy under artist and title in the photographic files of the Drawings & Prints Section. Other Titles - [Church Missionary Society church and house, probably at Waikanae or Otaki - former title] Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy of drawing 210 x 330 mm

Date: 1844

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

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

Reference: C-103-016-1

Description: View from near the mouth of the Otaki River, looking inland towards the hills. A Maori man wrapped in a cloak stands on the bank to the left. On the verso is a set of small drawings including untitled trees in landscapes; a house with gables ('A gabley house') and two drawings of young Maori women, one titled 'N. Z. awful [?] girl with her eyes out.' This woman is shown with moko on her chin, a scarf over her head and the outlining of her eyes gone over in pencil several times The reverse is photographed as negative 1/2-069628 and file print dfp-012880 under title N. Z. girl ... Other Titles - From the Akewood [Oak wood?, Akeake wood?] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 127 x 215 mm

Date: 1846

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902; Te Whiwhi, Hēnare Mātene, -1881

Reference: A-292-043

Description: Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper 147 x 244 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1840-1950

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Heron, George Charles, 1923-1972; Johnston, Owen, active 1940-1987; New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Palmer, Albert Noel, 1920-1972; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PA1-o-1036

Description: Contains photographs and photographic copies of paintings illustrating Te Rangihaeata's house on Mana Island, Waitahanui Pa at Lake Taupo, meeting houses at Waihi (Taupo), Wairoa, Te Wairoa (Rotorua), Otaki, Ohinemutu, Morrinsville, Waiomatatini, Pokai, Whakarewarewa, Tokaanu, Koroniti and Thames. Also shown are a gateway at Te Teko and the gateway to a church at Nuhaka. The artists and photographers represented are G F Angas, A P Godber, A N Palmer, William Hall Raine, George Heron, Owen Johnston, E Edwards, and the New Zealand Railways Publicity Department. A number of images were provided by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Graphic drawing book 23 x 31 cm

Date: 1844

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

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

Reference: C-103-021-8

Description: Rough sketches, some annotated. There are several profiles of men's faces. A tall tree with a man standing below is annotated 'Old manuka, Kaiwarra Hill' (i. e. Kaiwharawhara, Wellington). An outline of a fish is annotated 'Kae [or Rae?] Taratoa's Fish at Ohau' A drawing of a rock is annotated 'Road to Wairarapa'. The word 'Otaki' also appears. On the reverse of C-103-021-1 'Auckland 24 May [1844?] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 125 x 165 mm

Date: 1846

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-033/034

Description: Portraits of Matenga and his wife. Drawings by Matenga of implements Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: [1843-1938]

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-036

Description: Published by Whitcombe & Tombs, 1930. Presentation copy to James Cowan by H. E. Partridge with a dedication message to Cowan from Partridge tipped in to front of book, and loose papers which were laid into the book. These include photographs, clippings, correspondence, research notes, maps, and drafts. The photographs consist of eleven prints which include portraits of Hera Puna, Te Rauparaha, and Tamati Waka Nene. They also include one image of Mt Ngauruhoe erupting (with a group of people watching it [circa 1930s-1940s]), an image of the 'ceiling of Maori Church' in Otaki [Rangiatea] showing kōwhaiwhai, and another image featuring tukutuku and a poupou of Maui fishing up the North Island 'Te Ika a Maui'. The papers include correspondence from H. E. Partridge, dated 1930 and 1931, and S. Stuart [artist Sam Stuart] dated 1913. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Printed material, holographs

Date: [ca 1850s-1940s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-001

Description: Views of Wellington and environs, many of them copies of originals by W T L Travers and others, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. They include early churches, street scenes, shipping and personalities, and a view of Te Rauparaha's monument in Otaki. Aso included are a number of original photographs by Wrigglesworth and Binns of Wellington. Quantity: 76 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1840 - 1860

By: Working Men's Educational Union; Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: D-010-001/014

Description: 6 pictures of New Zealand subjects, others in Pacific Islands, Australia, South Africa?, and elsewhere ; for descriptions and further details see child records and TL 3/1/1, 24/5/1967 and 19/6/1967 Supplied title Each picture stamped with Union's name and address, and serial number, and has eyelet holes in 4 corners Quantity: 14 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Art prints : lithographs on calico, hand-col. ; each c.a. 900 x 1200 mm

Date: 1844

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

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

Reference: C-103-001-1

Description: A self-drawn moko by an unknown Maori man, Possibly Te Whatanui, with the different parts of the design identified in Maori, e.g. 'Te ngu' for the upper nose area, 'te wha' for the chin area. The tattoo is for the nose, chin and cheek. In the background is a set of faint drawings by W. B. D. Mantell, including hands holding a plant. On the reverse are several pencil drawings by Mantell of Maori carvings, a whare or cottage, and a hut, inscribed 'Otaki 1844' 'Te Whatanui's whata, Ranginui, Otaki'. 'Ohau, Muhunoa' and an illegible word in Maori, probably a person's name written by him- or herself while learning to write Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 125 x 169 mm

Date: 1849

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: B-103-028

Description: Shows Tamihana Te Rauparaha's house, built in a combined Maori and European style with carved figures supporting the trellis around the front verandah, weather boards, and a shingled roof. The inside was also partially carved with tukutuku panels adorning the walls. Other dwellings, possibly built in the same style, beyond a fence in the background, trees and a hill. A young wisteria has been trained to climb the roof pole on the left of Tamihana's house. Other Titles - Thompson's whare Otaki Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 175 x 250 mm

Date: 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Wellington Historical and Early Settlers Association; Dudding, Lorna Margaret, 1895-1971

Reference: A-190-023

Description: A side view of the house of Tamihana (Thompson) te Rauparaha, a wooden dwelling, with verandahs front and back, with trellis railings. A Maori storehouse on poles is to the left of the house Title from ink inscription on mount. Attribution on stylistic grounds: see also his Road to the Hutt... (A-190-024) Date conjectured from other Swainson sketches Pasted on backing card (200 x 210 mm) Other Titles - Tamihana te Rauparaha Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - "Thompson, N. House, Otaki"; Verso - "From Mrs L M Dudding, great-grand-daughter of William Swainson" Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (mounted on card). Physical Description: Pencil, 89 x 129 mm on mount 158 x 205 mm

Date: 1846

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902; Te Whiwhi, Hēnare Mātene, -1881

Reference: A-292-034

Description: A range of weapons and implements, those on the left probably drawn by T. B. Collinson, those in the centre and to the right by Matene te Whiwhi. The weapons include a taiaha (spear), a mere and a patu (clubs) and variant forms of mere as well as hoes and spades and axes and digging sticks (ko).. Extended Title - Taiaha Kura - Spear, Patu - Club, Meri (Mere) Pounamu - Greenstone Club, Paiaka - Weapon made from the root of the tree, Mere Kotiate - Lobed Club, Kororariki - Stone used to make weapons, He poto kerikeri wenua, a short land cultivating implement, Kumara - Utensil used for cultivating kumara, Taewaa - Utensil used for cultivating root vegetables, Tata - Spade utensil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1846

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-033

Description: Three seated unnamed Maori seated at the top of the drawing. A group below, showing "Martin of Otaki" (Matene te Whiwhi), an unnamed seated child, "Martin's wife" (Pipi or Phoebe) and "Tamihana of Otaki" (Tamihana te Rauparaha) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1844

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

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

Reference: C-103-002-6

Description: The back view of a Maori man walking up steps cut in a bank from a small moored canoe towards a hut in the bush On the reverse of the right section of C-103-002-4. The other drawings on the associated sheets are dated 1844. Mantell is not known to have visited Totaranui in Golden Bay. The view is more likely to be in the Otaki area Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 126 x 216 mm

Date: 1839 - 1844

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-025-021

Description: Seven strips of coastal profile forming a more or less continous record of the appearance of the west coast of New Zealand from Taranaki south to Queen Charlotte Sound. Part of the view is taken from Entry (i.e. Kapiti) Island The work seems most likely to have been done in 1839 when Heaphy travelled up the west coast aboard the Tory. Exhibited: "Drawn from Nature: Europeans record New Zealand 1770 - 1860". National Library Gallery 31 March - 28 May 1989; Treasures in Trust, Auckland Art Gallery, 11 November 1996 to 9 February 1997. A related series of coastal profiles, also by Heaphy, is held at the office of the Hydrographer of the Navy, Taunton, Somerset, England. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 385 x 499 mm Provenance: Commissioned by the New Zealand Company. Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull from Francis Edwards in London in 1916 with other New Zealand Company material.

Date: 1932 - 1849

By: Marshall, John Willoughby, 1851-1940; Hadfield, Henry Samuel, 1853-1910; Hadfield, Amelia Caroline, 1869-1956

Reference: A-123-011

Description: Shows a one-storey cottage with three windows and a door along the front. There is a path leading to the door, and flower beds on either side of the door. The house was Hadfield's first home, built 1849, and located 100 yards north of Rangiatea Church, under the hill. Copy of an earlier sketch 'Rev. Octavius Hadfield's cottage at Otaki, 1849', drawn for F.C. Hadfield by H.S. Hadfield from his father's description, not directly. (A reproduction in Mulgan, A.E. The city of the Strait. Wellington, 1939, attributes the earlier version to Anne Hadfield, but calls it a copy) The earlier sketch is privately owned and was also reproduced in Lethbridge, Chris. The wounded lion: Octavius Hadfield, 1814-1904 (Christchurch, 1993), p. 154, attributed to Anne Hadfield, daughter of Octavius Hadfield. There may be three versions of this drawing: one drawn by H S Hadfield, one by Anne Marshall nee Hadfield, and the one belonging to the Library by J W Marshalls Other Titles - Hadfield's Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 137 x 225 mm

Date: 1844

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

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

Reference: C-103-002-5

Description: View from the Otaki area looking inland towards the Tararua Range. A row of palisades, some in water, are in the foreground and a Maori figure is seated to the left. Mantell was at Otaki on 3 July 1844. On the reverse of the left section of C-103-002-4 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink & wash, 126 x 216 mm