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[Green, Samuel Edwy], 1838-1935 :Wreck of the Tararua. [1881].
Date: 1881
By: Green, Samuel Edwy, 1838-1935
Reference: A-250-006
Description: Shows S.S. Tararua on Waipapa Reef. Two figures stand watching, and one figure rides a horse along the beach. There are tussock-covered sand-dunes in the foreground. On back 'Tararua Pt Waihope S. Island' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 215 x 295 mm
[Green, Samuel Edwy] 1838-1935 :Wreck of the Tararua, Pt Waihope 1881
Date: 1881
By: Green, Samuel Edwy, 1838-1935
Reference: A-250-005
Description: Shows S S Tararua broken on Waipapa Reef, a lifeboat in the surf, and figures running on the beach. In the centre foreground is a man leading his horse across the sand dunes. 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. Other Titles - Point Inscriptions: Verso - title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 250 x 380 mm
Beach scene on Kapiti Island
Date: [ca 1890]
From: Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of hunters on Kapiti Island
Reference: 1/2-002797-F
Description: Scene on a beach at Motungarara Island circa 1890, showing an unidentified man, almost certainly one of the elder sons of Utauta and Hona Webber, and the wreck of a boat and whale bone. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of file print reads "Probably Webber family" Motungarara was the residence of the Ngati Toa chiefs Te Rangihiroa and his nephew Te Hiko-o-te-Rangi. The island was fortifed in 1839 to repel attack from the Ngati Raukawa during the battle of Kuititanga. The Webbers are descended from Te Rangihiroa. Tahoramaurea was one of the residences of Te Rauparaha, who was living on the island when Bishop Octavius Hadfield for met him in 1839. Both are small off-shore islands of Kapiti Island. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).