Places

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: A-020-033

Description: The left half of the page shows a wooden dwelling house thatched with raupo with a fence, a gateway, and an unusually long ridgepole. Below it is the end of another house (a cooking house) made of wood with a tekoteko (carved figurehead) at the top of its ridgepole. Both buildings are at Tu Kaitohe or Kaitoke Pa, Te Wherowhero's pa at the foot of Taupiri Mountain, Waikato The right side of the page shows at the top, two figures seated opposite one another and crying (the tangi or crying match). Below they are 'pressing noses' (hongi) and at the bottom of the page, they are hugging. Beside them is a sketch of a pole, three feet long, with white feathers 'wound into scarlet things'. The groups of people are copied from drawings by J. J. Merrett. Other Titles - Hongi. Pataka Quantity: 8 drawing(s) (on folded sheet). Physical Description: Pencil, 334 x 207 mm

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-032-2

Description: View from inside a seaside pa, looking out to sea. The landforms suggest the Ngati Toa pa "Taupo", Plimmerton, visited by the artist in 1844. In the foreground are canoes, palisades with carved figures, a grave or other small fenced enclosure to the right, fish drying racks, dwellings and further constructions up a steep hill on the right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 238 x 330 mm

Date: 1920

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-45

Description: Waiata from Ngapuhi eg waiata aroha and waiata putorino or flute song; also several waiata tangi describing the loss of a daughter from the Rangitikei / Manawatu area and waiata tangi from Maru iwi; waiata poroporoaki or farewell songs from people such as Tawhiao and several hymns covering a wide range of topics from Christianity to the `Mt Egmont Hotel' in Hawera; several war songs about the Orakau battle, Maori soldiers overseas during World War One, a waiata hari or `Triumph Song' and many other war songs from iwi on the East Coast; also songs about birds and Maori welcomes. Essays and articles on Maori food preparation and preservation about birds, body embalming and preserving heads, Maori lunar calendar, Ohaewai land claim, pataka, archaeology, Taranaki Maori history, Maori creation and Maori evolution, stories with an essentially New Zealand theme, the meeting proceedings between the Premier and Maori at Patea, on William Cowper, Maori taonga and artifacts found in a Ohaewai Cave in the Bay of Islands, a swimming pool with the skeletal remains of Frenchmen in a settlement in England, an account of the `Death of Hauraki, a Hokianga Chief' during the New Zealand Wars in 1845-1846, on Maori and Polynesian origins, protest to the Treaty of Waitangi in 1913. Photographs of landscape such as the Whangarei Heads and Mt Manaia, photograph of a Chief, Pokai Tete, letter to Sir James Carroll and another to Sir Maui Pomare, includes card play tactics in cribbage and also whakapapa of Hongi Hika of Ngapuhi and Kapewhiti of Taranaki also includes 92 whakatauaki and material on Ngapuhi grammar or Maori phrases. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts (some with ms annotations) and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 24, 25 April 1992 - 24 Apr 1992

From: Maniapoto Archives Oral History Project: He Taonga Tuku Iho

By: Waho, William Perenara, 1921-2001; Tauariki, Sonny, active 1992; Whanga, Robin Tukaha, active 1992

Reference: OHInt-0085-06

Description: Bill Perenara Waho gives details of his whakapapa and his life history including details of where he grew up, schooling, work, marriage, childhood memories of old Kaumatua, brothers and sisters, school days, sports and hobbies, pig hunting, living through the Depression and the World War II period. Comments on the Maniapoto Conservation Research Group. Gives the whakapapa of the wharenui at Maniaroa Marae (Mokau), explains and describes the carvings, pictures, chiefs and talks about the Tainui anchor being relocated from the Mokau River. Details the history of Mokau area including the hills and ridges, main tracks walked by ancestors and Te Rauparaha, Tainui in the area, Tokomaru and Kurahaupo waka, the wharekai at the marae, surrounding Pa in Mokau and the boundaries of Tainui. Talks about the Urupa, the stone outside the Urupa and the arrival of the Tainui anchor at the Urupa. Points out and talks about the various pa site in the area including the Pa of Ngati Maniapoto, te Rauparaha and the Motutawa Island Pa. Talks about food sources, the battles that took place and the main road taken by the ancestors to Piopio. Language - English and Maori Venue - Maniaroa Recorded by - Place of recording Jackson Tutaki (Audio technician) Abstracted by - Jason Paahi, Nikki Carnachan Interviewer(s) - Sonny Tauariki Interviewer(s) - Robin Whanga Venue - Mokau Marae, Maniaroa Accompanying material - Printed abstract contains background information about the project, the project symbol and karakia. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004454, OHC-004455 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 videocassette(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0750. Printed abstract contains photographs of; Bill Waho and Stan Warren standing on the mahau of the wharenui te Kohaarua Maniaroa Marae; Bill Waho on Maniaroa Marae with peak of Taranaki in the distance and two group photographs of the He Taonga Tuku Iho project team.

Date: 1861 - 1862

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of a trip up the Wanganui River, December 13, 1861-Jan 8, 1862]

Reference: E-041-009

Description: Shows a group of Maori sitting around a fire and cooking pot, with a hut in the background. In the right foreground a woman is bent over with a small leafy branch on her head. A dog or pig stands in the centre background. The name of the location appears to be written two different ways, and is not entirely clear. Other Titles - Papatahi Other Titles - Popotahi Other Titles - Popatahi Quantity: 1 drawing(s) In his sketchbook of a trip up the Wanganui R. 1861-62.. Physical Description: Pencil & ink, 130 x 177 mm