Places

Date: 1850 - 1851

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: C-054-014

Description: The Ngati Toa chief and tohunga Te Rangihaeata seated with his family (?). Behind the group is a thatched raupo whare. A dog lies in front, as well as a gourd, a cauldron and an axe with a carved handle. Inside the whare can be seen an unidentifiable object, possibly a charcoal burner. The sketch is unfinished Rangihaeata is not known to have fathered children, so the three young women with him are likely to be nieces or cousins. The woman leaning against him may be Rangihera, also known as Rangihira and Te Rangiuira, his niece. The source for the date 1850 is not known. The work bears no inscriptions. It may also be 1851, the likely date for C-054-020, the more finished and altered version of this view. Compare C-054-020 R. A. Oliver's 'Rangi-Hira (flash of lightning) the wife of the chief Rangihaeta [1847-1851] a more finished watercolour showing Rangihaeata with two young women and an older one, as well as a standing older man behind the group. The same cauldron and gourd are on the ground in front of the group, a whare is behind them beyond a large hollow tree trunk and the Paekakariki coastline is in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 265 x 375 mm

Date: 1933

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-25304-G

Description: Marutuna and her husband seated with their dogs beside an Austin 7 car, Orakeikarako. Photograph taken by Leo White in 1933. Source of descriptive information - Subject identified by descendant Marutuna was the sister of Pitiroi of Tuwharetoa Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder Yellow 04, Maori Studies A.

Date: [Between 1880 and 1887]

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

By: Hemus & Hanna (Firm)

Reference: 1/1-001906-G

Description: Ngāti Hauā group at Te Wai o Turongo meeting house at Waharoa, near Matamata. Seated in the centre of the group is Hohua Ahowhenua (d 1889). The name "Hohaia" inscribed on the maihi refers to Josiah Clifton Firth, who owned large estates near Matamata. Photograph taken between 1880 and 1887 by Hemus & Hanna of Auckland. This negative is part of a sequence which includes a portrait of Hohua Ahowhenua which was commissioned by Josiah Clifton Firth. The original negatives for these images, which are now part of the Alexander Turnbull Library collections, are dry plates, which would indicate that they were taken after 1880, but before Firth's departure from his Matamata estate in July 1887. In "Nation making" (pp 260-261) Firth states that after his departure Hohua was abandoned in the runanga house by his people. This photograph would appear to have been taken before this. The negatives form part of the collection of Herman Schmidt. Schmidt in 1904 took over the studio of Hemus & Hanna, who are therefore most likely to have taken the images. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1776-1/2-G

Description: A Maori man and woman seated on a step in front of a door with a chain and padlock by the handle. The woman has a moko, has her hair loose, and is wearing a full-length coat with a scarf in the neck. The man is wearing a short-sleeved top with placket, and a scarf knotted around his neck, and has a straw hat beside him. He is holding a dog in front of him. Possibly in the Thames area. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer. Thames area possible as this is part of a collection of images all relating to Thames. (See images from APG-1772-1/2 to APG-1779-1/2) Note in the Godber Accessions List "From Evening Post Collection" For another image of the same man, seated on the step in front of the door with a Maori woman (his wife?), see APG-1776-1/2. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [Between 1880 and 1887]

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

By: Hemus & Hanna (Firm)

Reference: 1/1-001887-G

Description: Ngāti Hauā group at Te Wai o Turongo meeting house at Waharoa, near Matamata. Seated in the centre of the group is Hohua Ahowhenua (d 1889). Photograph taken between 1880 and 1887 by Hemus & Hanna of Auckland. Other - Note that 1/2-018166 is a similar image This negative is part of a sequence which includes a portrait of Hohua Ahowhenua which was commissioned by Josiah Clifton Firth. The original negatives for these images, which are now part of the Alexander Turnbull Library collections, are dry plates, which would indicate that they were taken after 1880, but before Firth's departure from his Matamata estate in July 1887. In "Nation making" (pp 260-261) Firth states that after his departure Hohua was abandoned in the runanga house by his people. This photograph would appear to have been taken before this. The negatives form part of the collection of Herman Schmidt. Schmidt in 1904 took over the studio of Hemus & Hanna, who are therefore most likely to have taken the images. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1908

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: C-109-033

Description: A set of vignettes, supposedly representing pictures shown at the Auckland Society of Arts. The central view, a caricature of a Goldie portrait, titled 'A study of Maori life. A noble specimen of a fast vanishing race' shows an elderly Maori woman in pain and having a front tooth pulled out with a piece of cord. From top left the other views include 'Where is my boy tonight', a portrait of a seated middle-aged woman; 'The roadless North', a man being thrown from his horse; 'Get away little fly', a dog unable to reach a fly on the end of its nose; 'The curly-headed coon', an absent-minded professor smoking a pipe; 'The Pie-oneer's story - I've a sick wife and 19 children at home', showing a man receiving charity in the shape of a hot pie; 'Fish oh!', a Chinese fishmonger with a basket of stinking fish; 'The father of the Pah' showing an elderly Maori man; 'A cold beauty' showing a young woman; 'The white cow', showing a girl fleeing from a cow tied by its tail to a tree; 'Kiss me' showing a young woman, her eyes closed and lips pursed; 'Twenty-six by twenty' showing a young couple, the woman seated on the man's knee; 'Ph tuck me in my little bed' showing an elderly Maori woman asleep; 'The coming of the fleet' showing Maori canoes as steamships with American flags; 'A farm scene' showing a man dragging two reluctant horses; 'Cheap - an art patron' showing a kiwi and a man in bowler hat viewing pictures on the wall and placing pennies in a bowl extended by the hand of one portrait. Published in the Auckland Weekly on 21 May 1908, supplement p.5 with the title 'Our comic artist's impressions of the Auckland Society of Arts annual exhibition' Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - T. L. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 363 x 520 mm

Date: 1845 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: PUBL-0020-01

Description: Brees with his theodolite and sketchbook, his dog and several other surveyors in a camp in a clearing in Porirua Bush. Brees is sketching a Maori family. Below the main image is a vignette of the Hutt River, with Molesworth's farm and windmill. Molesworth and Ludlam's windmill was not built until 1845, Brees' last year in Wellington, giving a date to the lower view Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engravings on sheet 365 x 261

Date: [Between 1880 and 1887]

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

By: Hemus & Hanna (Firm)

Reference: 1/1-010217-G

Description: Ngāti Hauā group at Te Wai o Turongo meeting house at Waharoa, near Matamata. Seated in the centre of the group is Hohua Ahowhenua (d 1889). The name "Hohaia" inscribed on the maihi refers to Josiah Clifton Firth, who owned large estates near Matamata. Photograph taken between 1880 and 1887 by Hemus & Hanna of Auckland. This negative is part of a sequence which includes a portrait of Hohua Ahowhenua which was commissioned by Josiah Clifton Firth. The original negatives for these images, which are now part of the Alexander Turnbull Library collections, are dry plates, which would indicate that they were taken after 1880, but before Firth's departure from his Matamata estate in July 1887. In "Nation making" (pp 260-261) Firth states that after his departure Hohua was abandoned in the runanga house by his people. This photograph would appear to have been taken before this. The negatives form part of the collection of Herman Schmidt. Schmidt in 1904 took over the studio of Hemus & Hanna, who are therefore most likely to have taken the images. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [between 1910-1919]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/1-006226-G

Description: The wife of Pakinga Nopera, with a tobacco pipe, seated alongside a pile of kumara, a kete and a dog. Photograph taken by the Northwood Brothers between 1910 and 1919. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1863

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096084

Description: A young Maori woman at Tarawa parore, the residence of Andrew James Bonar and Elizabeth Frances Bonar at Kaukapakapa, photographed in late 1863 by Daniel Manders Beere. The photographer's negative register entry reads "Halfcast at Helensville." The photograph has been identified and dated by comparison with 1/2-096085-G. Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Beere 16 This woman has been identified as Tawera Parore Andrew and Elizabeth Bonar, their son William, and Andrew's brother John William, arrived on the \"Shalimar\" on 23 December 1859. John William remained a bachelor, and William did not marry until 1866. This is therefore the home of Andrew and Elizabeth Bonar. (Source: Louise Michaux, pers com) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1865

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: E-047-q-051

Description: A copy of a watercolour by Charles Decimus Barraud [Lake Papaitonga] (B-004-030), showing a Māori settlement with a long European-style raupo whare, Māori seated in front of the dwelling, and round a cooking pot over a fire, a dog, hens and two pigs, with a small canoe on the lake, and fish hanging to dry. A European man is talking to one group. 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 - Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white, 173 x 249 mm