Places

Date: ca 1900

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 16

Reference: PAColl-7344-73

Description: Three eel traps on end in front of some covered furniture in what might be a storeroom. Photographer unidentified. Provenance uncertain. The reverse of the print says "From the Wanganui Museum" but it is not clear whether that refers to the hinaki or the photograph. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1880s-1900s?]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Iles, James, active 1878; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-518

Description: Includes photographs of Maori artefacts in museum context. Possibly created by James Edge-Partington, an anthropologist who studied artefacts in New Zealand and the Pacific. This volume is in the same style of album, with similar photographs and articles as Webster album 4 (PA1-o-519) which has Edge-Partington's named bookplate inside the front cover. Studies of a variety of artefacts including an instrument giving a decoy call for kiwi; a sea leopard's tooth carved and worn as a pendant (from Stewart Island); whale teeth pendants; weapons; tools; carved waka, prows of waka; carved meeting houses; Te Kooti's house "Te Waho"; carved storehouses; a Maori kite; eel traps and fish hooks. The artefacts are from various collections in New Zealand and overseas, including the Chapman Collection, the Hamilton Collection, the Hocken Collection and General Robley's Collection. Cuttings from articles written by James Edge-Partington from anthropological journals are inserted in the album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Abum with dark grey cover; 26 x 21 cm

Date: [ca 1995-1997]

From: Young, David Christopher, 1947- :Photographs, mostly relating to the Matahina Dam and to a South Westland canoe trip

Reference: PAColl-10090-1

Description: Photographs recording the construction of Matahina Dam on the Rangitaiki River. Includes photographs of Ray Tarei, Bill Kerrison, Leon Chase, Onehou Phyllis, Dr Jacques Boubee, the site of Waiopa Pa and elvers being transferred to Lake Aniwhenua. Taken circa 1995-1997 by unidentified photographer(s). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 87 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1847 - 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: C-170-002

Description: Shows 14 views of Maori domestic life, including tools, clothing and household receptacles. Accompanying page of text (C-170-002-1) lists the numbered items as follows: 1. Mode of fishing with nets on Lake Taupo: the fish, which are still small, are caught in a seine with very fine meshes, and a pole about 20 feet long, with tufts of grass fastened at the end, to drive the fish into the net. 2. A fishing weir, or eel pah, on the river Mokau. 3. Wooden fish-hook. 4. Fish-hook generally in use, made of wood, with a layer of pawa [i.e. paua], or pearl shell (Haliotis), and the hook formed of human bone. A feather of the kivi kivi (Apteryx Australis) is fastened at the extremity. The lines are of flax and, as these hooks dangle astern of the canoes, the glittering appearance of the pawa attracts the fish. 5. Kupenga, or eel trap, formed of twigs, from Mokau. 6. Ko, a wooden spade, for rooting up ferns, and preparing the ground for plantations. 7. A pestle for beating flax, formed of volcanic trap. 8. Wooden flute, one of the orifices of which is tattooed to resemble the lips of a woman. 9. Bark bucket, and calabashes for holding water: the orifices of these latter are also tattooed in a similar manner. 10. Ornamented flax basket for household purposes. 11. E kumeti, ancient wooden bowl for kumeras, from the deserted pah of Otawhao, near Waipa, eight feet in circumference. 12. and 13. Flax sandals from Otago, in the Southern Island. 14. Portrait of an aged slave woman, at Pouketouto, in the interior, beyond Mokau Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Other Titles - and Extended Title - From: Angas, George French. The New Zealanders illustrated (London; Thomas M'Lean No. 26 Haymarket, 1847). Plate 57 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) (14 images on one page). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 455 x 310 mm, on sheet 545 x 365 mm Provenance: Purchase: Cordy's antique and art auction, Auckland, 21 May 2013; lot 665

Date: 1897-1904

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934

Reference: PA1-f-142

Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-17

Description: View of an unidentified forest stream flowing through native forest, Chatham Island. An eel trap (hinaki) can be seen on the left bank. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: 1875

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: C-052-007

Description: Shows eel traps and two whares in the foreground at the lake's edge at a river mouth. Three Maori are standing and seated in front of the buildings and there is a small canoe in the water and a European yacht in the distance. Bush and tall trees surround the water's edge and the Tararuas can be seen in the background. Hoyte made more than one copy of this view. An almost identical one sold in New Zealand in 1995, possibly the watercolour held by Auckland Art Gallery. An article in the Daily Southern Cross of 18 January 1866 refers to a number of Hoyte's watercolours including 'a picture of Horowhenua Lake, in Wellington, from a pencil drawing by Mr W. Fox'. Hoyte is not known to have visited Horowhenua and all of his known views of Horowhenua Lake may derive from William Fox's pencil drawing. The William Fox watercolour seems likely to be one held by the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, Horowhenua Lake, c1850s, watercolour on paper, gift of Mr Cranleigh Barton, 1977. Other Titles - William Fox Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J. C. Hoyte [in Chinese white] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white, 272 x 415 mm

Date: 29 November 1925

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-002-082

Description: Eel weir (pa tuna) named Ruataniwha, on the Hokio Stream. Photograph taken 29 November 1925 by G L Adkin. Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - 82. Eel-weir (pa-tuna) - named Ruataniwha - on the Hokio Stream. 29.11.25 Arrangement: Image in PA1-q-002 on page 18 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10.7 x 15.4 cm, mounted on album page

Date: between 1856-1889

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/1-000482-G

Description: Eel or fish weir at (Patupa?), Pungarehu, on the east bank of the Whanganui River, photographed by William James Harding between 1856 to 1889. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: between 1856-1889

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/1-000483-G

Description: Eel or fish weir at (Patupa?), Pungarehu, on the east bank of the Whanganui River, photographed by William James Harding between 1856 to 1889. Identified from 1/1-000482 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1930?]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-6388-49

Description: Small scale model of a traditional Maori eel trap, with weirs and baskets, exhibited in the Wanganui Museum (circa 1930s?). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 184 x 138 mm

Date: 1921

From: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-257

Description: Album of photographs taken 1921 by James Ingram McDonald while on an ethnographic expedition up the Whanganui River. The expedition was undertaken by McDonald, Elsdon Best, Peter Buck, and Johannes Carl Andersen, under the auspices of the Dominion Museum. There are many views of the Whanganui River and villages, including numbers of waka at Koriniti, and views of eel traps across the river. Very detailed sequences of photographs show flax weaving, coarser weave for kete and eel traps, and finer quality for clothing and ceremonial mats. The captions appear to have been added later, in pencil, with some names being unclear. Many of the photographs have copy negatives, some are 1/4 and some 1/2. Other Titles - Wanganui River Expedition 1921 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cloth cover, black leather spine and corners, entitled "Photographs. Wanganui River Expedition 1921" on paper label attached to spine; brown paper pages with silver gelatin prints, all approx 10 x 15 cm, affixed; 35.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: 1931-1934

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

By: Law, Dora Isabel, 1894-1982

Reference: PA1-f-009

Description: The Maori place names and old historical sites of Horowhenua together with a pictorial record of Maori artifacts and customs. Also place names etc elsewhere in New Zealand (Vol 1, figures 147-334). Includes maps and diagrams. Images show eel weirs and traps in the Hokio Stream; stake-fields in Lake Horowhenua which were constructed by Maori to impede enemy canoes, and which were exposed above water level by the lowering of the lake in 1926; artifacts in various collections, including kumete, waka-huia, stone adzes etc.; views of the Takihiku meeting house belonging to the former pa called Pua-o-Tau (figs 198-202); porch of Poutu meeting house at Whakawehi kainga near Shannon (fig 204); site of Pakakutu Pa, Otaki; site of the Wairarawa Maori burial area where artifacts were found by Arthur Black in Feb 1932 (figs 210, 213, 223-224); carved meeting house Te Poho-o-Kahungunu at Porangahau (fig 233); funeral ceremonies on 17 April 1932, after the death of Hema Te Ao, at Raukawa meeting house (undergoing reconstruction at the time) and Rangiatea Church, service taken by Rev. Temuera Tokoaitua, funeral procession through Otaki, preparations for hangi; Titahi Bay; site of the former Korohiwa Pa; copy of a picture of Wellington Harbour by T Allom, showing place names and former Maroi sites; sites and place names along the Paekakariki-Pukerua Bay coast; sites & features at Titahi Bay, Whitireia Peninsula & Porirua Harbour.

Date: Early 1900s to 1931

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-002

Description: Māori place names and old historical sites of Horowhenua (Vol. 1, images 1-146). Album includes maps, diagrams & sketches, and black & white photographs. Views include Paremata Redoubt, Lake Horowhenua, carved pātaka at Papaitonga Pā. Views of Komokorau, the burial place of Mua-Upoko chiefs including Chief Mahuera Paki Tanguru-o-te-rangi; Lake Wai-tawa and Te Moutere (formerly a fortified island pā). Place names & historic features of Kapiti Island, including relics of whaling days at Wharekohu Bay showing ruins of stone house, stone walls and a stone-embanked stream channel, burial caves, Waiorua Valley showing the approximate site of Te Rauparaha's principal pā, and Motungārara Island where there was a subsidiary pā of Te Rauparaha. Ōtaki, Rangiātea Church (1925); carved whare at Puke-Karaka; Ōtaki Jubilee Pole; and old meeting house Uawhaki at Waikawa. The site of the old Māori flour-mill on the Waitarere Stream at Poroutawhao, which was built in 1853 or 1854 under the direction of a French priest. Several images of performers competing in the haka and poi competitions at Shannon, 2 January 1928. Images of Pākehā pioneers of Horowhenua (Hector McDonald and his wife Agnes (nee Carmont)), and a photograph of Rora Hakaraia, daughter of Mua-Upoko chief Tanguru, and sister of Te Rangihiwinui (also known as Taitoko, and later as Te Keepa or Major Kemp). The photograph of Rora Hakaraia was taken from a painting in the possession of Rod A. McDonald of Levin. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s).