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Date: 1844 - 1890

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Keesing, G S (Mr), active 1960s

Reference: D-001-009-a

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha on 11 May 1844. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. This copy lacks a printed inscription on the recto of copy D-001-009 "Presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890" Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph in two tints 220 x 840 mm on sheet 285 x 890 mm Provenance: Donation: G S Keesing

Date: 1844 - 1890 - 1969

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Heritage Fine Prints; Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: D-001-023

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A 1969 photomechanical reproduction, taken from a lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. Print no 142 of an edition of 1000 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of tinted lithograph in two colours 205 x 794 mm (image) on sheet 293 x 876 mm

Date: 1844 - 1889 - 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Allan, Joseph Stuart, 1861-1930; Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: B-110-036-3

Description: A group of Maori seated around a large structure containing preserved food for a feast. Several whare are in the background One of four proof lithographs on a single sheet measuring 447 x 285 mm. Derived from a lithograph by G. F. Angas in The New Zealanders illustrated (London, 1847), plate 36, 'A feast a Mata-ta'. Angas' lithograph is based on a drawing by Joseph Merrett Other Titles - A feast at Mata-ta, Matata Inscriptions: Recto - top left: 2nd proof, 18-11-89 [in blue pencil] Printed [in pencil] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 170 x 99 mm

Date: [Between 1930 and 1934]

By: New Zealand Railways; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Mitchell, Lindsay, active 1930-1942

Reference: PA1-f-058

Description: Album of publicity photographs including designs for advertisements for use in the new Zealand Railway Magazine; designs for posters for use in Railways Ticket Offices and one for a large neon lighting sign "Suggested `Claude Neon' Display for New Zealand Railway Publicity Department, Wellington. `Travel by train'". One photograph is entitled "`Post' corner 1880. Now site of King's Chambers". A number of images show a [Labour Day?] parade of marching people, and floats some of which are advertising NZ Railways holiday destinations, with slogans reading `Come to Rotorua', `Come to Waitomo', `Come to The Chateau Tongariro'. There are designs of title pages for the New Zealand Railways Magazine; a view of a commemorative key with a sheaf of corn on the handle in a presentation box; and designs for a programme of events surround the laying of the foundation stone for the new Government Railway Station, Wellington, N.Z. by HRH the Duke of Gloucester, December 17th 1934. These are followed by photographs taken during the Duke's tour of New Zealand, including crowd scenes in Wellington, Maori celebrations of welcome at Ngaruawahia, and scenes in the Rotorua thermal area. There are a few individual and group portraits of the management and administrative staff of New Zealand Railways, most unidentified. Most of the images relate to the 1930s, but there are a few copies of earlier photographs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, maroon spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C4'; 42 x 59 cm

Date: 4 March 1987

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1987/1013-F

Description: Young children of Te Teko waiting for their dinner at Hahuru Marae, Onepu, Bay of Plenty. Up to 1000 people were camped at the marae after the Edgecumbe earthquake. Photographed on 4th March 1987 by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. These photographs were not published in the Evening Post Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: 1841 - 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-044

Description: Four drawings on one page. 'Native feast scene' shows a hakari or fish-drying rack, with many Maori seated below, whare and Mount Edgecumbe in the background. This image was copied by George French Angas as 'A feast at Mata-ta, Mt Edgcumbe in the distance'. 'Waipa' shows a flat landscape with a distant hill. 'Ko pa te Tura' shows a Maori man with moko, his arms around his body. 'Te Waha' names a standing young woman, her lower body draped in a cloak The Library holds only photographic copies of originals in the British Library Add MS 19953, folio 44 (128 to 131) Other Titles - Matata Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of four drawings, various media

Date: 2012

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-2012-01

Description: Programme for a Te Waka Toi Supreme award to Timoti Karetu (Te Tohu Aroha mo Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu) shows several photographs of him. The front cover shows him alongside the Maori Queen Te Arikinui Te Atairangikaahu (1931-2006). The inside back page contains the words of a tribute to Timoti Karetu, written by Jeremy Tatere MacLeod. Other speakers at the ceremony included Pita Sharples, Hana O'Regan, Leon Blake, Pania Papa, Kuini Moehau Reedy, Te Kahautu Maxwell. Iwi attending were Nai Tuhoe, Rangitane, Ngati Kahungunu. Representatives of Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo were also present. Also includes a menu for "Uncle Timoti's feast", Waimarama Marae 6th October 2012. The menu cover has a press-out silhouette picture of a Maori woman, possibly Pania. Other Titles - Formal presentation of the award in Memory of Her Highness Dame Te Atairangikaahu at Waimarama Marae 2012 Other Titles - Te Waka Toi Exemplary Award Donor reports that Timoti Karetu "was a great friend of Te Atairangikaahu, and he asked that the award be formally presented at his marae, in Waimarama, by her son" Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print on programme booklet and on smaller menu card, sizes varying up to 210 x 150 mm. Provenance: Donated by Cellia Joe, a member of Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo, in 2012.

Date: 1841 - 1847

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-076

Description: Four drawings on one page. At the top, a frontal view of a young woman, no. 49, named as a slave of the chief of Maraenui. The drawing is incomplete, and includes a small hand, possibly that of a baby, on the woman's chin. 'Puteki' is a profile portrait of a young man in a tag cloak. 'Roto Roa' shows part of Lake Rotoroa in a flat landscape with distant hills. 'Hokomohana' is a head nd shoulders frontal portrait of a fully-tattooed man. On the reverse, a rough sketch of a hakari or food platform for a feast, with drying fish in large quantities Other Titles - Maraenui. Rotoroa. Wakatane. Whakatane Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of four drawings, various media

Date: 1841 - 1843

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-114

Description: Groups of Maori gathered around a large hakari or food storage platform in a pa. Several whare are in the background, with a distinctive volcanic peak in the distance. The hakari has large fish hanging from two rails, baskets of food on a platform, and dead birds hanging from the top. A man appears to be speaking, wielding a taiaha on the left. Most people are seated. The original drawing copied by G F Angas without acknowledgement to Merrett, and reproduced as a lithograph titled A Feast at Mata-ta, as Plate 36 in Angas' The New Zealanders illustrated (London, 1847) Other Titles - Matata Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of ink and wash drawing

Date: 1849

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: E-144-002

Description: Looking down from a hill at Kororareka (Russell) towards a large hakari (food storage platform or scaffolding) and out towards ships in the Bay of Islands. Many Maori are seated or standing nearby, including alongside a long low dwelling, with a European house beyond it. Shows a hakari built for a feast in honour of Governor George Grey Inscriptions: bottom left - Drawn and lithographed by Cuthbert Clarke, Auckland 1851 Compare an almost identical view in the National Library of Australia, with title The feast, Bay of Islands. Compare also two other views in the Alexander Turnbull Library, taken from a different angle (B-030-006 and B-030-007) and another view in the National Library of Australia 'The stage erected to contain the food at the feast given by the Native chiefs ... September 1849' Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of crayon and body-colour drawing

Date: [1849]

From: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889: Sketches of New Zealand, European, and British landscapes and portraits

Reference: B-178-005

Description: Watercolour sketches of on recto and verso side of paper. Recto depicts hakari platform erected at Kororareka in 1849 for a feast in honour of a visit from Sir George Grey. Verso depicts a double portrait of two young subjects wrapped in a red blanket, with one wearing a blue dress. Also includes sketch of a group of people in front of a building on a hillside. Other titles (file print) - [Food stage erected for feast given by Bay of Islands Chiefs, Sept. 1849]; [Maori Pa on hillside; Two Maori girls in red blanket c. Sept 1849] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 274 x 378 mm.

Date: 1939-1940

From: Koppel, Irene, 1914-2004 :Photographic prints, albums and negatives taken by Irene Koppel

By: Verry, Horace Leslie, 1916-1996

Reference: PA1-o-988

Description: The images record three separate events: 1. Leslie Verry's trip to Europe in 1939 as the world prepared for war. 2. The New Zealand Centennial celebrations at Waitangi in 1940. 3. A climbing trip to Tongariro National Park, easter, 1940. In relation to the Second World War, this album is interesting in that it has several photographs showing mobilisation in Holland, and troops on the move in Utrecht and the Hague following the Italian invasion of Albania in April 1939. It also has photographs taken in Kassa (Hungary) after the partition of Czechoslovakia. While in Britain and Europe Leslie Verry also practiced as a freelance journalist Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1852 - 1851

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889; Dickinson & Company

Reference: C-054-006

Description: A group of Maori in front of a tent shelter. The group includes two seated women, one breast-feeding an infant, a naked toddler reclining in front and two young men standing behind, one with a rifle and cartridge case. A tewhatewha (weapon) lied in fron on top of a pile of cloaks. A third woman kneelds to the right, her back to the artist and her face hidden. According to Oliver's accompanying text, the scene is at Kororareka (modern Russell) in 1851, during the feast (hakari) put on by Tamati Waka Nene for Governor George Grey. 'The man on the right with the musket is Neddy, who fought against us under Heki [Hone Heke] at Ruapekapeka. The girl next to him is Maria ... the woman with the baby is said to be the daughter of Chevalier Dillon; and on the left is Jane, who was famous for her personal attractions ... The old lady kneeling on the right is "Na Nuia" Pomare's wife, who placed herself in that becoming attitude to avoid having her portrait taken' From: Oliver, R A A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand [London, 1852, plate 6] The Library holds an original watercolour version of this lithograph at C-054-021 The hand-coloured version of this lithograph is catalogued at PUBL-0032-6 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (two-tone) 269 x 396 mm

Date: 1878

By: Harper's weekly (Periodical); Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: A-018-003-a

Description: A group of settlers in the foreground, observing Maori seated and making speeches outside Waitara Pa, with Mount Taranaki in the background. To the left is a hakari, with a low bank of flax kits filled with food, the top completely covered with neat rows of cooked pigs After a drawing by Philip Walsh in the Library at E-357-031 Compare A-018/017, the same engraving published in The graphic Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 225 x 305 mm

Date: 1949

From: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5220-033

Description: Contains typescripts for a number of speeches given by Sir Peter Buck during the month of March in 1949 during his tour of the Maori areas. Some of the venues where he spoke were at Parliament building, Ngati Poneke Hall, Manukorihi Pa - Waitara, Urenui Primary School and others where he spoke on issues like Maori leadership and health care Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1844 - 1890 - 1969

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Heritage Fine Prints; Wilson & Horton (Firm); New Zealand. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Manatū Aorere

Reference: D-001-023-a

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A 1969 photomechanical reproduction, taken from a lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. Print no 221 of an edition of 1000 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of tinted lithograph in two colours 205 x 794 mm (image) on sheet 293 x 876 mm Provenance: Donation: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Wellington, July 1994

Date: 1844

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: A-007-018

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha on 11 May 1844. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. Photograph of watercolour held by the Hocken Library, Acc. no 12,282 Fp/M568. The watercolour measures 284 x 912 mm and the photographic copy is 118 x 378 mm on a sheet measuring 160 x 390 mm. Copy of the original for a tinted lithograph with title The New Zealand Festival, published 1845; and for lithographs with title Maori feast at Remuera, published 1890. The lithographs include numbered keys to features and activities depicted. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy of watercolour 118 x 378 mm

Date: 1835

From: Yate, William, 1802-1877 :An account of New Zealand; and of the formation and progress of the Church Missionary Society's position in the northern island. London, Seeley & Burnside, 1835.

By: Williams, Samuel, 1788-1853

Reference: PUBL-0101-139

Description: Shows a scaffolding structure of triangular cross section (possibly conical plan), rising to a point. It has fifteen stages, on which figures are standing as they construct it. Crowds are gathered watching at the base. ATL copy at p 919.31 1835 (More copies in Reserve and Wrapped Reserve) Extended Title - from William Yate's "An account of New Zealand ..." (London, Seeley & Burnside, 1835), page 139. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) on page of book.. Physical Description: Engraving, 135 x 90 mm.

Date: 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-055246-F

Description: Two women at the Otaki Church centennial in 1950, greeting each other with a hongi. The people of Otaki were in the process of welcoming those from Hawke's Bay. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 29 Mar 1843

From: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879 : Diaries

Reference: MS-0130-021

Description: William Bambridge, writing master at St John's College, Auckland, described this colourful Ngapuhi hakari (feast) which he attended with Rev William Charles Cotton in his diary (page 21). Bambridge is possibly the figure with the hat seated at right. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Sepia ink and watercolour 190 x 127 mm, on sheet 203 x 157 mm