Places

Date: 1892

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-5/33/394/Acc.55080

Description: Fragment of map, partial facsimile copy print, showing parts of Otago from Lake Wakatipu in the north to Riversdale in the south, includes railway lines and roads, with topographical details. Annotated as being dated 1892. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed map on paper, scale undeterminable, 43 x 40 cm Transfers: This sheet relates to other sheets of a larger map of Otago and Southland held in this collection. See Library references MapColl-5/33/395/Acc.55081; MapColl-NZGB-5/29/371/Acc.55057; and MapColl-5/33/393/Acc.55079..

Date: 1885

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Monro, Paul Alexander (Dr), 1928-2013

Reference: C-173-004

Description: Shows a farm scene, probably in Otago. To the left, three workhorses walk side by side; in the distance to the left, the house and farm buildings can be seen, with a woman and two children crossing the field. To the right is a bull, a cow and a calf; and beyond them three kennels, each with a dog outside. In the distance are the Southern Alps, showing snow down to their foothills Inscribed on backing board; wrongly named as 'An early Wairarapa homestead' Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C Aubrey 1885 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white on paper, 350 x 565 mm Provenance: From the estate of Dr PA and J B Monro, of Taupo.

Date: 1844 - 1847

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: PUBL-0014-55

Description: A group of sketches with accompanying text, paraphrased as follows: 1. [Top centre] Mode of fishing with nets on Lake Taupo. 2. [Upper centre]. A fishing weir, or eel pa, on the river Mokau. 3. [Top left] Wooden fish-hook. 4. [Top right] Fish hook generally in use, made of wood with a layer of paua ... 5. Kupenga or eel trap, formed of twigs [a basket trap]. 6. [Centre left]Ko, a wooden spade for rooting up ferns and preparing the ground for plantations. 7. [Upper right, below paua fish-hook] A pestle for beating flax, formed of volcanic trap. 8. [Centre right, below pestle] Wooden flute, one of the orifices is tattooed to resemble the lips of a woman. 9 [Lower left, below digging sticks] Bark bucket and calabashes for holding water. 10. [Lower centre] Ornamented flax basket for household purposes. 11. [Bottom centre] [H]e kumete, ancient wooden bowl for kumaras, from the deserted pa of Otawhao, near Waipa, eight feet in circumference. 12 & 13 [Bottom left and right] flax sandles from Otago. 14 [Centre] Portrait of an aged slave woman, at Pouketouto [Puketutu Pā?], in the interior, beyond Mokau [Waitomo]. The woman is squatting in front of a whare. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured, 230 x 336 mm.

Date: 1860

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-1282

Description: Includes diary entries for a visit to Otago, mainly to do with farming matters, in February 1860, and an account of a meeting with supporters of the King Movement in May 1860. Some of this account of the various speeches of the King supporters is in Maori. The volume also includes notes by McLean on the various canoe arrival stories told him by Maori. Also includes other rough notes. Many of the entries are very faint, and barely decipherable. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1848

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

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

Reference: C-103-049

Description: The bottom half of the South Island, from just above Banks Peninsula to Stewart Island, showing the lakes of the Southern Alps and Fiordland, somewhat inaccurately. The overall shape of the East Coast around South Canterbury / North Otago is also inaccurately drawn, making the island too narrow. The details of the interior were not drawn from first-hand knowledge but probably from Maori informants There is a very similar map in the Cartographic Collection, also by Mantell and done in 1848. The main differences are in the dotted lines Mantell has drawn across the island, probably land-sale indicators. Both maps drawn while Mantell was Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil with some watercolour

Date: 1848

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

Reference: E-333-072/073

Description: Identifies Bri[ross?] Pt; Island Pt.; Matainaka; George Smith. Other Titles - Purakanui. December Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double spread). Physical Description: Ink over pencil on sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm.

Date: 1847 - 1849

By: Abbot, Edward Immyns, 1822-1849; Crowder, John, active 1986-2000

Reference: B-155-010

Description: Shows two bearded surveyors attempting to boil a billy over an open camp fire, in bleak wet weather, on a treeless plateau with mountains in the background. One man, smoking a pipe, is dressed in a torn jacket, and attempts to warm his hands over the fire. His companion, at the left, tries to shelter the fire from the wind with his hat. At the far left, a miserable dog stands in front of the opening of a tent. The smoke blows from the fire in a direction opposite to what one would expect judging by the slant of the rain. Abbot was part of a surveying party contracted in 1847, with Sydney M Scraggs, northwards along the Taieri plain and further north. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 241 x 349 mm

Date: 1893

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995

Reference: A-169-033

Description: Shows part of a lake, with trees, and a mountain range, possibly the Remarkables, in the background. Verso bears business stamp of A.A. Finch, solicitor, of Dowling St, Dunedin. Considered possibly the Remarkables because of the deep strong pencil marks used to portray the jaggedness of the tops. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W.M.H. 93.; Verso - centre right - (Stamp): A.A. Finch, Solicitor, Dowling St, Dunedin. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on piece of envelope.. 6.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Pencil, 113 x 160 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A95-145. - Transfer from Manuscripts and Archives, A95-145..