Places

Date: 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-024/025

Description: A scene on Papaitonga Lake, showing Sir Walter Buller's house to the right, bush surrounding the lake, a wooded island and hills in the background Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Papaitonga Lake Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) (double page). Physical Description: Pencil, over two pages, 165 x 460 mm

Date: 1862 - 1967 - 1864

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-012

Description: Shows two huts beside and end of the lake, one with a group of six Maori (probably three men and three women) five of them seated, in front of it. At the entrance way to the other a hut man is about to enter carrying a flat bowl with steam rising from it. In the centre foreground is a three?-legged cauldron. In the lake water at right a figure stands at the back of a canoe. There is a grassy island in the lake and beyond is flat-rolling land partly covered with bush. Original watercolour, entitled "Lake Papaitonga" at B-004-030. Other Titles - Lake Papaitonga. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Print no. 633 / Serial 11. 1967; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 242 x 380 mm, on sheet 450 x 570 mm.

Date: 1862 - 1967 - 1864

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-012-b

Description: Shows two huts beside and end of the lake, one with a group of six Maori (probably three men and three women) five of them seated, in front of it. At the entrance way to the other a hut man is about to enter carrying a flat bowl with steam rising from it. In the centre foreground is a three?-legged cauldron. In the lake water at right a figure stands at the back of a canoe. There is a grassy island in the lake and beyond is flat-rolling land partly covered with bush. Original watercolour, entitled "Lake Papaitonga" at B-004-030. Other Titles - Lake Papaitonga. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Print no. 23/ Serial 11. 1967; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 242 x 380 mm, on sheet 450 x 570 mm.

Date: 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-027

Description: Sketch of two cabbage trees growing beside lake Papaitonga, with a wooded island in the centre of the lake. An unfinished drawing Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 (page size)

Date: 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-026

Description: A scene on Lake Papaitonga, showing trees around the lake, a Maori canoe and the pataka, Te Takinga, on the property of Sir Walter Buller. The view looks west towards the Tararua Range Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Papaitonga Lake. Sept 1899 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: 1862 - 1967 - 1864

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-012-a

Description: Shows two huts beside and end of the lake, one with a group of six Maori (probably three men and three women) five of them seated, in front of it. At the entrance way to the other a hut man is about to enter carrying a flat bowl with steam rising from it. In the centre foreground is a three?-legged cauldron. In the lake water at right a figure stands at the back of a canoe. There is a grassy island in the lake and beyond is flat-rolling land partly covered with bush. Original watercolour, entitled "Lake Papaitonga" at B-004-030. Other Titles - Lake Papaitonga. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Print no. 634 / Serial 11. 1967; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 242 x 380 mm, on sheet 450 x 570 mm.

Date: 1896 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-018

Description: Shows two people rowing in a small canoe on Lake Papaitonga. Beyond them is a wooded island, with dense trees and the Tararua Ranges in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: 1896 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-016

Description: Shows two people rowing a small canoe on Lake Papaitonga. A bush island is in the centre of the lake. Scattered cabbage trees and other trees are on the grassy banks with dense bush in the background Walter Buller owned property alongside Lake Papaitonga Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Papaitonga - Sir W Buller Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: B-004-030

Description: Recto shows two huts beside and end of the lake; verso shows a woman carrying a baby on her back, and a man with a bird. A copy of this watercolour was reproduced in 1967 as one of 'The Barraud Prints' published by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - Horowhenua / Papaitonga; Unsigned and undated. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, on both sides of sheet, 270 x 415 mm.

Date: 1959

By: Valuation New Zealand; Nicholls, J K N (Mrs), active 1959

Reference: MapColl-832.43gbbd/1959/Acc.36379-82

Description: Map of Horowhenua County, Whirokino Riding, from the Moutere and Mount Robinson survey districts, southwards to Waitohu and Waiopehu survey districts. Identifies roads, lakes, numbered blocks and sections, townships, settlements and boundaries. Annotations include - owner names: Crown, Lands and Surveys, Forest Service, 'Maori', Turnbull, Easton, Murray Hammond Estate, Gooding, Ryder, Thomas Hannan; bridge, church, and lake identification; acreage and section number corrections; calculations. Some areas marked 'x'. Shows sand and swamp annotations. Stamped 'Valuation Department', Wellington District Office, 7 July 1959. Includes second copy of sheet Roll 1481/2 (Acc.36382), with name annotations: Brant, Easton, ?DeGrualey, Hanan, Gooding. Verso: Map number and 'Horowhenua County'. Quantity: 1 map(s) on three sheets. Physical Description: Diazo photoprint with pencil, part coloured, scale indeterminable, 76.6 x 77.4 cm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J.K.N. Nicholls, 5.7.[19]78.

Date: [between 1889-1910]

From: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-020723-G

Description: Lake Papaitonga, Horowhenua district, photographed by Henry Wright between 1889-1910. Includes two people standing by a camera tripod. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Dated from information at PAColl-5032. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Williams, P C :Photographs of Levin, Weraroa and Auckland c1900s

By: Williams, William, 1858-1949

Reference: PAColl-0434-07

Description: Unidentified women inside a pataka (Maori storehouse) at Lake Papaitonga, Levin area, circa 1910. Photograph taken by William Williams. The storehouse is now held at Te Papa. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.6 x 9 cm

Date: ca 1906

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

Reference: PA1-q-002-017

Description: Pataka (Maori storehouse) Te Takinga at Lake Papaitonga, circa 1906, photographed by George Leslie Adkin. Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Carved pataka at Papai-tonga showing intricate and masterly craftsmanship of the old style. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11.1 x 15 cm, on album page

Date: 1862 - 1864

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :[Lake Papaitonga; Maori woman carrying child; man with bird. ca 1863].

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: B-004-030-1

Description: Shows two huts beside and end of the lake, one with a group of six Maori (probably three men and three women) five of them seated, in front of it. At the entrance way to the other a hut man is about to enter carrying a flat bowl with steam rising from it. In the centre foreground is a three?-legged cauldron. In the lake water at right a figure stands at the back of a canoe. There is a grassy island in the lake and beyond is flat-rolling land partly covered with bush. Reader in 2005 suggests that this picture may show the Mahoenui kainga, burnt down in 1873, by Muaupoko tribe. Verso shows pencil sketch of Maori woman carrying child beneath cape, and unfinished sketch of man with bird. Original watercolour for photolithographic prints at C-028-012/012-b. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - Horowhenua / Papaitonga; Unsigned and undated. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on recto of sheet 270 x 415 mm.

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).