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Date: 1920 - 1929

By: Turner, E J Dorothy, 1885-1958

Reference: A-104-023

Description: A tent and an adult and child building a campfire in the left foreground with tall trees to the right, the lake in the background Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 101 x 89 mm (platemark) on sheet 131 x 115 mm

Date: 1935 - 1959

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: A-321-010

Description: Shows a group of men friends cooking a chicken over a fire outside their snow-covered cottage in the mountains. One is operating a radio with headphones, another chases a pukeko, another talks to a stag, one is chased by a deer, whilst yet others climb the side of a mountain in the background. The radio operator says: (according to text stuck on beneath image): "Civilisation coming through at last! What message shall I give them?" The chicken-cooker replies: "Vote of thanks to the Matson Line for their excellent idea!" Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph on sheet 235 x 290 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1876 - 1975

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-022

Description: Shows a Maori family beside a pitched tent and campfire in the foreground with the lake behind. Similar to watercolour at C-007-008, from a slightly different angle, and showing pakeha campers. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph 312 x 534 mm on sheet 521 x 636 mm

Date: 1957

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1957/4289-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm

Date: 1904

From: [Metal filing cabinet containing postcards]

By: Littleburys (Firm); Levett, Olga Gorton, 1891-1970; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: Eph-POSTCARDS-Tobin-01

Description: Card shows a photograph of travellers beside a campfire at Mokau Inlet. There is a whare on the left and a hut at the right. The card is addressed on the verso to Miss Olga Levett of Bulls, Rangitikei. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on postcard 87 x 139 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Helen Tobin in 1997.

Date: 1900

By: Baker, William George, 1864-1929

Reference: G-550

Description: Shows two groups of Maori whare on a river in the foreground; the two groups are linked by a low wooden bridge. A waka is drawn up on the bank in the foreground and several figures stand in front of the huts. Beside the central group of two whare there is a drying pole on which a row of fish or game are hung. The figures beside the whare at far right are tending a campfire. The clearing is surrounded by native bush and there is a cabbage tree and flax at the far right. In the centre distance is Mount Taranaki dominating the scene. May show Rehu village, inland from Patea Inscriptions: Mount verso - top left - [Title, late twentieth-early 21st century, on paper stapled to frame] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 440 x 645 mm (sight)

Date: 1831 - 1937 - 1939

By: Downes, Thomas William, 1868-1938; Bathgate, Charles McLelland, 1893-1970

Reference: A-076-023

Description: Shows Powers lying in boat in right foreground, while some of a group of six natives ties one of his three companions to a pole. One threatens towards the tied man with a mere. There is a campfire and a kete lies on the ground. Features Andrew Powers, one of the first white men to see Lake Taupo. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 209 x 308 mm.

Date: 1910

From: Daley, J M :Photographs of Paraparaumu and Plimmerton

Reference: 1/2-071079-F

Description: Women from the Whiting and Vaughan party cooking on a camp fire, at Kapiti Island, in 1910. The woman on the left holds a teapot. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1905

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: B-163-008

Description: Shows a view of Milford Sound from the shore looking towards Mitre Peak. On a low spit in the foreground, two figures have anchored a small sailboat and are tending a campfire. A steam sails on the sound in the middle distance. The higher peaks are snow-capped, indicating a winter season. In the close foreground several seagulls stand on the shore or wheel above it. The artist was probably resident in Auckland by 1905, the date at which this work was painted. He may have worked from a photograph of Milford Sound Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 263 x 375 mm.

Date: Christmas 1964-1965

From: Rogers, Adrian, fl 1963-2004 :Photographs of surfing in New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-230209-F

Description: Group of surfers standing around a campfire at Taupo Bay, Northland, photographed Christmas 1964-1965 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 10 x 12.5 cm