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Waiata written at the dictation of aged chiefs by Hoani Riki [Ngati Toa]
Date: 9 Jun 1851
From: Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898: Maori manuscripts
Reference: MSY-2094
Description: Written at Wainui, north of Paekakariki, near Wellington at the dicatation of elder chiefs of that area. This volume captures a variety of waiata, haka, whakatauaki, karakia and moteatea from the Tainui tribes with particular emphasis on the Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa tribes. Quantity: 1 volume(s) 90 pages.. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies) Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.
H T Whatahoro Jury - Whakapapa and note book
Date: 1895
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B016
Description: Contains notes about places associated with Kupe in Wellington and Wairarapa, whakapapa, financial records by Tuta Nihoniho and miscellaneous notes about land management There is a lengthy account of the destruction of the Te Arawa canoe by Raumati, and subsequent events, and a related narrative about Raumati's son, Ngarue and his activites and family There are haka and waiata, a list of pa in Taranaki and related iwi, notes about the origins and settlements of various iwi, notes about greenstone, and a narrative about conflicts between Te Ati Awa and Waikato, and the subsequent migration of Te Ati Awa along with Ngati Raukawa and Ngati Toa to the Wellington area There are notes about the arrival of Pakeha in New Zealand before Captain Cook, and a note in Elsdon Best's hand that states that much of the information in the manuscript was extracted from the Journal of the Polynesian Society and other published sources Also contains the names of several muskets belonging to the Ngati Toa which were named in a waiata composed by the wife of Te Pukoro, a Ngati Tama/ Ati Awa chief killed in the Wairarapa in the late 1820s. This lament was composed and sung at Waikanae to rouse the Ngati Toa to seek revenge for the deaths of the Ngati Tama and Ati Awa in the Wairarapa. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: ½ maroon, black boards, 24 cm., vol. numbered 9
Correspondence and notes
Date: 1896-1915
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: 80-115-04A/04C
Description: Includes Notes on Maori origins, by Mr Ferguson of Hokianga; Time and a generation, by Hare Hongi; Ruatapu, Whiro and Toi, by Hare Hongi; He korero mo Wairangi raua ko tana wahine ko Parawhete, by Matenga Hori; He karakia patu ngarara, ana kai i te maara kumara, and other notes, by Hare Hongi; On the survivals of ancient customs in Oceania; Ngati Kahungunu materials from T W Downes; Maori kitchen middens, by Taylor White; Ko te korero mo nga pa e toru i te puke, by Tarakawa Also contains a brief essay about Te Rauparaha of the Ngati Toa. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Native Affairs Commission papers (d)
Date: 1933-1934
From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0113
Description: List of signatories from Ngai Tuhoe in support of the Land Development Scheme and opposing the new regulations placed upon the scheme by the government. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Letters from Te Maika
Date: 1967-1968
From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-7811-015
Description: Letters from McNeish, mainly to Helen Schnitzer, from his house, Te Maika, at Kawhia. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Waiata fragments of narrative and proverbs
Date: Before 1854
From: Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898: Maori manuscripts
Reference: MSY-2108
Description: Contains various waiata and moteatea etc. Many of these relate to the Ngati Toa, Te Ati Awa and Ngati Raukawa, with many others relating to Te Arawa and Waikato. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (photocopy) Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.
Photograph of a boy beside a camp fire
Date: [ca 1900-1910]
Reference: PA4-1476
Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a young boy standing beside a camp fire in the Kawhia area. Cooking two cooking utensils hang on a tree beside the fire. Sea and mountains in the background. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print
[Eagle, Audrey Lily], 1926?- :Metrosideros fulgens; climbing rata from Moerangi near Ka...
Date: 1968 - 1988
From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]
Reference: A-437-129
Description: Shows leaves, seeds and flowers of a climbing rata. Artist's list: Red flowers, June, from Kawhia; yellow flowers from Mt Karioi, Raglan. Seed capsules Feb. (probably A Eagle) Appears on page 255 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand" Other Titles - 1 June 1968 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 261 x 211 mm.
An Albatross too many - Notes
Date: [ca 1970-1996]
From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-7811-080
Description: Includes information on Tom Rewi, the permanent inhabitant at Te Maika. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Tainui, volume 6 (Maori) - Fragment
Date: n d
From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0075-B11A
Description: These folders are White's manuscript versions of Ancient History of the Maori and include volumes which were prepared but not published before his death and this folder provides an account of the Ngati Toa migration and war with other Tainui iwi. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and printed matter
Land sale document land near Kawhia
Date: 15 Nov 1839
From: Treadwells : Legal documents
Reference: MS-Papers-2634-1/09
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: See inventory for description of contents of this folder.
Craddock album 6
Date: 1931 to 1934
From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India
Reference: PA1-o-116
Description: Album of tramps, camps, and other boy scouting activities, chiefly photographed by Gerald Rainsford Craddock, who was an active scout member and later scout master during the 1930s at Otorohanga. Maori legends and hand-drawn maps accompany the photographs, bringing New Zealand geography and history alive to the young scouts. Outings include following Te Kooti's trail, searching for caves where moa bones have been found, and climbing to various trig stations in the Waikato area. Other images show competitions for scouting badges and first aid instruction. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leatherette cover, loose-bound album, 18 x 30 cm
Scrapbook No 2
Date: 1915-1931
From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers
Reference: qMS-0208
Description: Polynesian/Maori Voyages, the story of Takitimu Waka, Maori Customary Concepts and Tribal Narratives. Includes information on the messianic cults that flourished in the 19C; the battle of Waiorua (Whakapaetai) at Kapiti; Te Rangihaeata's stockade at Paremata; the death of Von Tempsky at Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu, and expropriated taonga in the British Museum, including Te Rauparaha's mere-pounamu `Papatahi' and Te Hiko-o-te-Rangi's mere-pounamu `Tuhiwai'. Comprises information on Nga Puhi `Atamira', and generic Maori tohunga practices.
Historical records - The first white man in Kawhia
Date: n d
From: McNab, Robert, 1864-1917 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0047-16
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Maori material
Date: 1840, nd
From: Whiteley, John, 1806-1869 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0484-4
Description: Translation of `He tangi mo Te Rangihiroa' by the ancestors of Te Wharepouri on the occasion of the Ngati Toa tribe leaving Taranaki & anticipating an attack from the Waikato. Also items in Maori relating to the selling of all of Taranaki by the several Ngati Maniapoto chiefs from Kawhia to the Wesleyan Missionary Society. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
As for the godwits - Notes
Date: [ca 1996]
From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-7811-067
Description: Notes and information on Audrey Culley. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Notes re Maori King movement and Kawhia
Date: 1995
From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-7811-074
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Photographs taken by Charles Fleming during trips in New Zealand
Date: 1933-1937
From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 :Photographs relating to family and scientific interests
Reference: PA1-o-1321
Description: Trip to Lake Waikaremoana and the Ureweras, March 1935. The sequence includes views of the lake, native forest, the meeting house at Te Whaiti, and huts associated with Elsdon Best. Visit to W H Guthrie Smith at Tutira, March 1937. This includes a photograph of Guthrie-Smith and another of the Tutira homestead with Guthrie-Smith and E G Turbot walking in the garden. Trip to Tokomaru Bay, February 1935. Photographs include Fishermen, Mount Hikurangi, Kiritahi Homestead, the Raukumaru Range, the Kopuapounamu River, the Maungakariki Stream, and other geological features. Photographs taken during a Geology II camp at Kawhia, Easter 1935. Shows student groups on a beach, Tainui Rock, and Albatross Point. A view of the coast and the old copper mine building, Kawau Island. Auckland University College Field Club's trip to to the Noises Islands, 1935. Depicts students collecting snail shells and grouped on a beach, and a view of a rocky islet from a cliff top. The locations depicted are Otata Island, Maria Island, and David Rocks. Auckland University Science Society picnic, and the Auckland Conchological Club's trip to Rangitoto Island, 1935. Auckland Univerity College Field Club's camp in the Huia Valley, May 1935. Views of Rangitoto Island and the Hauraki Gulf. This sequence includes photographs of Black-Backed and Red Billed gulls, their nests, eggs and chicks. Charles Fleming and a group of friends climbing on ice. Poor Knights Islands showing landscape, vegetation including Xeronema in flower, and a small penguin. Views of Waiheke Island which include Squadron Bay, a fossil bed at Oneroa, and Matiata. Gulls photographed on Motutapu Island, November 1933. A trip to Great Barrier Island. This sequence includes views of Port Fitzroy, a warship, Grave islet, Mount Camel, rocks and islets called "the Grey group," Wellington Head, Nelson Island and other islands at the entrance to Fitzroy Harbour, Whanagaparapara Harbour, Mount Hobson, Arid Island, Mohuki Island, and a gannet colony. Other photographs of bird life include shags perching in trees, gulls and pigeon and kaka in bush on Hen Island, a fantail and nest, shearwater and petrel burrows, and flocks of seabirds on a rocky coast. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Creator of Collection Unknown : Pohutukawa trees at Kawhia
Date: ca 1900
Reference: PAColl-7256
Description: Two photographs of the historic pohutukawa trees next to the wharf at Kawhia. One of them shows an old man sitting on the edge of a boat moored on the beach under the tree. The names given on the reverse, Poretereta ,Tangitekorowhiti and Papa-o-Karewa, are the names of the trees. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).
[Eagle, Audrey Lily], 1926?- :(Upper) Muehlenbeckia complexa. Omana Aug. '70; (Lower) M...
Date: 1970 - 1989 - 2003
From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]
Reference: A-437-067
Description: Shows leaves, fruit, seeds and flowers of the bush pohuehue (or large-leaved muehlenbeckia) and the pohuehue. Artist's list: Muehlenbeckia australis. Male flower Nov. Kawhia, fruit from Kaimai Ra., March. Two views of seed from Otago pen. coll. 2003 coll. A Eagle. M complexa (i). Flowers Jan from Blenheim Coast. Fruit August 1970 from Omana, Firth of Thames. coll. A Eagle Appears on page 133 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand". Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 262 x 212 mm.