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Date: [ca 1860-1900]

By: Peyman, Benjamin, 1823?-1897

Reference: PA2-2560

Description: Shows Karaana standing in front of a painted studio backdrop. Photograph taken ca 1860s by Benjamin Peyman. See PA2-2828, 2829 & 2830. Other - Photographer identified from cartes-de-visite in PA1-q-895, inscribed with name B Peyman, Taupo Quay, Wanganui See albumen silver print: Auckland Museum, PH-ALB-91-p18-11, Daubeny Album. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1865

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-041

Description: Scene inside a pa, with soldiers on guard and seated on the ground, a white horse pulling a cart to the left. The watercolour is a likely to be a copy of a watercolour by Colonel Edward Arthur Williams and is almost the same, apart from the placement of the soldiers, as a watercolour by Williams in the Turnbull Library entitled Picket at Nukumaru, 30 Jan.y 65. (A-210-019) Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white, 174 x 249 mm

Date: [ca 1860-1890]

By: Peyman, Benjamin, 1823?-1897

Reference: PA2-2559

Description: [Karaana ?] or Caroline, sister of Victoria, Queen of the Nukumaru, standing alongside two rifles, circa 1860s. She wears a long dress, belted with a large wrap and bandanna type headress. She holds a long handled axe under her right arm. Photograph taken ca 1860s by Benjamin Peyman. See PA2-2828, 2829 and 2830 Other - Photographer identified from cartes-de-visite in PA1-q-895, inscribed with name B Peyman, Taupo Quay, Wanganui Inscriptions: Verso - Karana [?] or Caroline, Sister to the Queen of Nukumaru. Karaana [?] fought with the Imperial & Colonial troops in all their engagements on the West Coast of this Island, she was accidently burnt to death. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1865

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-036/037

Description: Shows view over wide plain with "large farm and flax extent that was fired by us", with at far left, a pah on the Waitotara 3 miles off, 3 high trees 1550 yds off at centre left, a small redoubt in centre distance, some palisades, a village (Nukumaru) and some peach groves. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 138 x 464 mm.

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-042

Description: By one of the Nukumaru Lakes, with three soldiers relaxing on the bank among toitoi in the foreground. A spur of land in the middle of the lake holds further soldiers, one on horseback, and two cows Possibly a copy of an original by E. A. Williams Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title, partly erased] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream paper, 175 x 246 mm

Date: 1850 - 1870

By: Peyman, Benjamin, 1823?-1897

Reference: PA2-2829

Description: Shows a woman dressed in a feather cloak with rifle in hand. Photograph taken ca 1860s by Benjamin Peyman. Same as PA2-2828 Other - Photographer identified from cartes-de-visite in PA1-q-895, inscribed with name B Peyman, Taupo Quay, Wanganui Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Queen Nukumaru Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1865

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-210-019

Description: Five soldiers in the foreground, their backs to the viewer, several raupo shelters and a fence in the middle ground, a low hill with the palisade of a pa and trees in the background Reproduced as a Turnbull Print on folder of the 1980 General Williams set. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title & date Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 175 x 250 mm Provenance: Purchase: A.H.Turnbull, possibly (suggestion by Anthony Murray-Oliver, early 1980s)

Date: [1869?]

By: Woolnoth, Alfred, 1849-1897; Cowan, James, 1870-1943

Reference: A-138-027

Description: A fenced pa with three soldiers and four horses in the foreground, one horse riderless. Another horse is on the ground, as is one soldier. Ink inscriptions in another hand supply comments on the copying, and identify features and events, e. g. "Wright"; "Big Kereopa came out with a long-handled tomahawk"; "Maxwell shot dead:. Shows also W. Lingard on horse at left. Title from pencil inscription An ink note in the right border, alongside a drawing of a palm tree states 'Wrong! This was a gnarled old ngaio with very thick branches'. Another very similar drawing, pencil and a similar size, with the same title and attribution on offer at International Art Centre auction, Auckland, 22 October 2009, lot 109. Provenance given as Private collection, United Kingdom. Copyist described as Alfred Woolnoth. An Alfred Woolnoth was living and working as an artist in Edinburgh at the right date According to James Cowan in The New Zealand wars, Vol II, p. 278, Christopher Maling was present at the skirmish on 25 January, 1869. He is known to have done drawings in New Zealand and could possibly be the artist whom Woolnoth was copying Other Titles - Taurangaika Pa. Tauranga Ika Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, image 156 x 232 mm, on sheet 210 x 290 mm Transfers: Transferred from: MS Papers 39 (Cowan collection). Processing information: Names updated May 2024 following information from a staff member.