Places

Date: 1847

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

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

Reference: C-103-041-2

Description: Looking north up the coast from a kainga at Waitara with a whare to the right Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 110 x 172 mm

Date: 1847

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

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

Reference: C-103-040-4

Description: A Maori man, Haumuera Puketapu, shown seated, in European clothing, with his back to the viewer near the coast at New Plymouth looking north. In front of him is a raupo whare and a group of three other seated Maori. In: Mantell, W B D Scrapbook Other Titles - Village of Samuel Puketapu [translation] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 126 x 208 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

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

Reference: E-281-q-019

Description: The Otago coastline, looking north, with 'dry sand spit' marked in the centre and 'Kaika' [Kainga or Maori village] noted beyond the spit and in the shelter of a rounded hill at the water's edge Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash, 56 x 201 mm.

Date: 1847

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

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

Reference: C-103-037-1

Description: Mount Egmont in the background viewed from its southern aspect. A small Maori kainga (Umuroa) is just visible on top of a nearby hill. Umuroa does not appear to be in current use in Taranaki as a place name Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date in ink. Also an inscription in pencil, partly legible as 'Puketo a hini. High wind, hot sun, Jan 23rd 10 a.m.' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 163 x 242 mm

Date: 1852

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

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

Reference: C-103-053-4

Description: Three drawings on one page, showing the site of a cave previously occupied by Maori, a European man standing outside; a plan drawing of the inside of the cave, and a profile view of the hill at Awamoa, and location of the cave near the summit Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 107 x 66 mm

Date: 1849

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

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

Reference: C-103-082

Description: A panoramic view of the plains north of Christchurch (with a small section missing). From left to right is a large stand of native bush (possibly Papanui Bush), 'Hills at Waipara' in the distance, 'Wood ... near Kaiapoi' also at some distance, sandhills, a Maori kainga with a rough palisade and two raupo whares titled Waiti... (word cropped), three further small stands of bush, the hills of Banks Peninsula, a further small stand of bush and the foothills of the Southern Alps. In the section showing the hills of Bank's Peninsula, a European man is standing, holding a flag or something similar on a tall pole. Despite the title assigned to this panorama, Waipara is in the distance and the view is more likely to be taken from south of the Waimakariri River Inscriptions: Recto - Features given their Maori names across the bottom of each page with some names in English also included Quantity: 4 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash on 4 sheets, 104 x 693 mm + 342 mm + 342 mm + 343 mm, total 1720 mm

Date: 1847

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

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

Reference: C-103-045-2

Description: Mount Taranaki from the south seen across a plain, with a small kainga in the middle distance Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 114 x 182 mm

Date: 1852

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

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

Reference: C-103-098-1

Description: Shows an extensive plain and occasional conical hills, with a cluster of houses at the foot of the hills just right of centre. Spread across two pages of a sketchbook. Part of W B D Mantell's Scrapbook (C-103) "Betterwood" is a joke of Mantell's A similar but not identical panorama, from a different angle, showing Goodwood, is on six pages of Mantell's sketchbook E-332, with titles From Mount Royal, 1, 2 and 3. Reference numbers are E-332-006/007, E-332-008/009 and E-332-012/013 Other Titles - Mt Watkin. Rocky mountains. Carte Blanche, Pique, Repique, Mt Charles, Mt Royal Inscriptions: Recto - SDNM i. e. Southern District New Munster, now known as Otago, South Island Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 65 x 35 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

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

Reference: E-281-q-021

Description: A rock formation on a low hill in the foreground, with a view south with Lake Forsyth in the foreground and along the sandbar to Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury. A Maori kainga is visible on low-lying land in the middle ground between the two lakes, with food-storage platforms and 2 small whare There is a similar view from a greater distance at E-281-q-020 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 105 x 189 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

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

Reference: E-334-071

Description: 'From Te Kapa's kaik' on the left, drawn across the page, is a view across a valley towards hills, with the small buildings of the kaik or village in the foreground. Below that 'Te Morokuia' (or Te Morokina?) is a view of a distinctive low hill. On the upper right drawings of three items lost in Mantell's travels: 'Ye candle box [candlestick] wh[ich] was lost atte [at] Otaitai'. 'Ye nyfe [knife]... wh. was lost atte Orewa' and a third object, possibly another knife 'loste atte Godde nos wher' [lost at God knows where]. Bottom right is Mantell's group crossing the Waitaki River in a large canoe, with their Maori guides and their baggage, watched from the bank by a fifth man with his baggage. In the background at the river mouth is a small kainga, with at least one food storage platform. Other Titles - Kainga; candle-stick; knife Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 24 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

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

Reference: E-334-052

Description: Top sketch, a panorama crossing the width of the page, looks north along the beach around the mouth of the Ashburton River at Hakatere, with the tents of the survey camp to the left. It is dated 3 October. Bottom left, 4 October, a night view in the camp with men seated around the fire, tents amongst flax bushes. Bottom right, a scene in a kainga, with a food storage platform to the right, a palisade, a rough hut and the boots and packs of the survey party outside. Probably October 7, south of Hakatere Probably Tarawata's kaik, as described in E-334-053 Inscriptions: Recto - Top of page: Oct 3. 4 & 7 Quantity: 3 drawing(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Pencil, 60 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

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

Reference: E-334-054

Description: View looking north along the beachline, with two food storage platforms and a low building to the right, a food bundle on a stick supported by a pyramid of logs, tents or raupo whare to the left and a European man standing, holding a flag, while a Maori woman crouches behind him, attending to cooking or holding a kete. The word Tipare is inscribed lower left. Mantell's party was close to Hakatere, at the mouth of the Ashburton River, or a little further south, on 7 October. The same kaik, probably Tarawata's, is also shown at E-334-052 and E-334-053 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Oct 7. [Written across the top of the page, in ink. Image is drawn upside-down on page. Also inscribed in pencil, lower left. The word Tipare is in pencil, lower left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)