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Huddleston, Francis Fortescue Croft, 1846-1922 :[Maori family on Whanganui River bank]

Date: 1864

By: Huddleston, Francis Fortescue Croft, 1846-1922; Monro, Paul Alexander (Dr), 1928-2013

Reference: B-195-010

Description: A view of one of the Maori pa on the eastern banks of the Whanganui River, possibly Ranana Pa. The river winds its way through the middle of the scene, while the pa is visible on the right, or eastern bank; there are a number of whare, surrounded by pallisades. On the western bank, a number of Maori adults and children are fishing; there is a dog in the water and a canoe out in the middle of the river, as well as one drawn up on the western bank. The hills are green beyond, with poplar trees growing near the pa site Huddleston was resident in Nelson in 1864, and is known to have travelled up the Whanganui River Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - FFC Huddleston / 1864 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 350 x 500 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, in the collection of Dr Paul Alexander Monro, Taupo

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Huriwhenua - Major Kemp's Council Hall, Ranana

Date: 1885

From: Burton Bros

By: Burton, Alfred Henry, 1834?-1914

Reference: PA7-36-05

Description: Maori dressed in cloak and holding a taiaha, photographed in front of the whare-puni at Ranana. Photograph taken by Alfred Burton on 8 May 1885. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3523 - Huriwhenua - Major Kemp's Council Hall - Ranana (London) Wanganui River. Burton Bros. Dunedin Duplicate at PA7-36-06 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. Physical Description: Albumen print 14.8 x 19.4 cm on mount 22.8 x 29.2 cm

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Muir and Moodie : Waka and crew, Wanganui River, Ranana

Date: [ca 7 August 1893]

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PA7-19-02

Description: Waka and crew on the Wanganui River at Ranana. Photograph taken by Alfred Burton for the Burton Brothers on 8 May 1885 at Ranana. This print copy of the image was created by Muir and Moodie, circa 7 August 1893. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3524 - Our canoe & crew - Ranana - (London) Wanganui River. Muir & Moodie. Dunedin Prot 7.8.1893 Relationship complexity - an earlier print of this image is held at Library reference PA7-36-07 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Original photographic print

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Group outside the Huriwhenua meeting house at Ranana - Photograph taken by William Henr...

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003206-G

Description: Group of men, women, children with their dogs outside Huriwhenua meeting house at Ranana, circa 1900. Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - bottom left - 49 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

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Hirawanu - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003071-G

Description: Portrait of Hirawanu, an elderly Maori chief, wearing a korowai (tag cloak) and two huia tail feathers behind his left ear. Photographed by William Henry Thomas Partington ca 1900, probably at Wanganui. On back of file print `Hirawanu (Ranana)'. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 30. Hirawanu Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

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Taru of Ranana [?] - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003108-G

Description: Portrait of a young Maori woman identified as possibly Taru of Ranana. She is wearing traditional Maori clothing with a taniko border and eardrops. Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington, circa 1900, probably at Wanganui. Identified on back of file print as possibly Taru of Ranana. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

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Two Maori women outside Huriwhenua meeting house at Ranana

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

By: Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940

Reference: 1/1-003147-G

Description: Two Maori women outside Huriwhenua meeting house at Ranana, circa 1910. The woman in the foreground is identified as Ngarangi, and reclines on a flax mat and holds a taiaha. Photograph taken by a W H T Partington. Source of descriptive information - "Te Awa; Partington's photographs of Whanganui Maori", p. 31. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 71 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

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View of Ranana on the Wanganui River

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: 1/2-051097-F

Description: A view of Ranana on the Wanganui River, ca 1880s, showing a Maori village. Photograph taken by a photographer from Burton Brothers. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3522-Ranana (London) Wanganui River - Burton Bros Dunedin

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Ranana, on the banks of the Whanganui River

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Willis, Alfred Archibald, 1872-1947

Reference: 1/2-001280-G

Description: Ranana settlement on the banks of the Whanganui River, circa 1900. Shows the Huriwhenua meeting house. Photograph taken by Willis. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Ranana, Wanganui R - Willis Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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Ngapo Tuhana and Te Onetu Mete Kingi - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003074-G

Description: Portrait of Ngapo Tuhana and Te Onetu Metekingi. Photographed by William Henry Thomas Partington ca 1900, probably at Wanganui. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 58. Huia Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

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Huddleston, Francis Fortescue Croft, 1844?-1922 :Major Kemp's meeting house, Ranana Pa,...

Date: 1892 - 1895

By: Huddleston, Francis Fortescue Croft, 1846-1922

Reference: G-064

Description: Shows a large group of Maori seated and standing on a flat area of land in front of a carved meeting house. There are two large raupo whare further away at the left. The nearer one has steam or smoke rising from it, and may therefore be a whare kai. In the right background is a bushcovered hill and there are cleared hills in the left background, with higher hills in the distance. There are several dogs, some white and some brown, with the group of people, and a pig stands at the left. Photographs of the meeting house in the late 1880s show no carved tekoteko or amo figures. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - F C C Huddleston / 9[2 or 5] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 295 x 445 mm.

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Ranana on the Whanganui River

Date: [ca 1870s and 1880s]

From: Nairn, Douglas, fl 1973 :Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji

Reference: PA1-o-359-08

Description: Ranana and the Huriwhenua meeting house on the banks of the Whanganui River. Photograph taken by the Burton Brothers, circa 1870-1880s. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Maori village similar to those overwhelmed by eruption; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3522 Ranana (London) Wanganui River. Burton Bros Dunedin; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - [?]ri at home series Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: print 14 x 19.2 cm, mounted on album page

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Letter from Paranihi Te Kiritahanga to Premier (with translation)

Date: 13 Sep 1870

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

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0694D-05

Description: Letter with contemporary translation reminding McLean of a promise to provide him with a fowling gun Quantity: 1 piece (3 pages on 2 leaves).

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View of a canoe and its crew on the Wanganui River

Date: 1885

From: Burton Bros

By: Burton, Alfred Henry, 1834?-1914

Reference: PA7-36-07

Description: Photograph of the canoe & six Maori crew that took Alfred Burton and his party up the Wanganui River. Includes one member of Burton's party seated in the canoe and holding a paddle. Photograph taken by Alfred Burton on 8 May 1885 at Ranana. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3524 - Our canoe & crew - Ranana (London) Wanganui River. Burton Bros. Dunedin Relationship complexity - a later print of this image is held at Library reference PA7-19-02 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.8 x 20.2 cm on mount 22.8 x 29.2 cm

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Te Koroneho - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003080-G

Description: Portrait of Te Korohohe, a Maori wearing a rain cloak and holding a patu in his right hand. He has short-cropped hair, a bushy moustache and a facial tattoo. Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington, circa 1900, probably at Wanganui. Inscription on back of file print -`Te Koroneho (Ranana). Brought at Torny Baldy'. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - bottom left - 37 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

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Take Take Rangitupu from Ranana, Wanganui River

Date: ca 1880s

Reference: 1/2-020056-F

Description: Seated studio portrait of Take Take Rangitupu from Ranana, Wanganui River. He wears an ear adornments made of ribbon and an animal tooth. He wears a korowai (Maori tag cloak) and holds a patu. A tewhatewha lies at his feet. He sits before a painted backdrop. Photograph taken circa 1880s. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of print reads: "Taketake from Tawhitinui and Hiruharama" Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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Huriwhenua meeting house at Ranana

Date: [ca 1889]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/1-000490-G

Description: Huriwhenua meeting house at Ranana, circa 1889. Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

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Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns] 141. Waiomatatini;...

Date: 1942

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

Reference: E-302-q-5-141/143

Description: Each panel is named in the line above it. Patterns are in red, black and white. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on page. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 248 x 310 mm in sketchbook

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Village of Ranana and Whanganui River

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Crompton-Smith, Annie Marian, 1901-1996:Photographs of New Zealand scenes by unidentified photographers

By: Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963

Reference: 1/2-028201-F

Description: Looking across the Whanganui River at the village of Ranana, circa 1900. Shows the meeting house in the distance. Photograph taken by Frank J Denton. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Ranana Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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Looking towards Ranana, taken from Waipapa

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/2-011676-F

Description: A view looking towards the settlement of Ranana showing a white house centre left. A whare can be seen in the middle ground. Photograph taken from Monk's property in Waipapa, ca 1880s, by William James Harding. The white house on the left centre was the residence of George Haami Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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