Places

Date: 1836

By: Wing, Thomas, 1810-1888

Reference: MapColl-832.17aj/1836/Acc.1465

Description: Hydrographic map depicting Kawhia Harbour, soundings, high and low water marks recorded by the schooner 'Fanny' in January 1836. Text on the map provides landmarks and information for safe travel through the harbour. Two Wesleyan Mission stations and the river 'Wai Heragigi' are depicted. Inscriptions: Signed 'January 1836, ? T W.' Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, linen backed, front covered with gauze, scale indeterminable, 40 x 36 cm.

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-0014-37

Description: A seated Maori couple with a background of a carved whare. The man, To Ngaporutu has a moko and is wearing a greenstone earring and a flax leaf rain cloak. His wife, seated on his right, is in a woven flax korowai cloak and has an albatross feather ear adornment. She has a chin moko and crosses marked on her cheek and forehead. The pair were residents of the Waitomo area, with Rihe coming from the Wanganui area. Both were recent converts to Christianity. On the right side, another seated man and woman, of Waikato, ther man "Ngawhea" from the Kawhia area had not been converted to Christianity; the woman, Nga Miho was a 'celebrated priestess, and wife of Rangitautaea, the old chief of Ahuahu, who was wounded at Taranaki'. The woman is wearing a blanket, the man a flax rain cloak. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844. According to Angas's text, Nga Miho means 'the teeth'. However the usual Maori word for teeth is niho. Other Titles - Ngati Maniapoto Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm