Places

Date: 1864

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: E-372-f-005-1

Description: Shows Rev B Y Ashwell's first mission station at Pepepe or Taupiri located beside the Waikato River. There are high, bush-clad hills behind the house which has a fenced garden. A canoe is close to the station on the river. A group of Maori are seated in the foreground Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 44, Jan 1864, p.104 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 175 x 240 mm

Date: 1957

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-228

Description: Handwritten account of tangis held at Taupiri between 1880 and 1896. The `One the Teller of Tales' is identified in the document as George White. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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: 1858, 1905

By: Stack, Eliza Rachel Jane, 1829-1919

Reference: MS-2042

Description: The journal begins in March 1858 and ends in November 1858. A note, 24 years later, describes her revisit to Kohanga and gives a brief historical summary. The journal describes life in Auckland, a voyage to Tauranga on the cutter `Hope', and visits to mission stations there and at Maketu, a trip through the thermal area and back to Auckland through Thames, the Waikato and Taupiri. Eliza Jones describes Maori life and conditions, flora and fauna as well as many of the people she met on her journey, including Archeacon Brown, Rev Volkner, John Kinder and Thomas Chapman, whose poem `The rats' lament', about the Maketu rats, is given in full. The journal has been copy edited, probably by A H Reed This journey described in `Further Maoriland Adventures of J W and E Stack', (Dunedin: Reed, 1938) Source of title - Title page Variations in title - Spine title: New Zealand 1858 Eliza Jones visited New Zealand in 1857 and married the missionary, Rev James West Stack in 1861. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (187 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (carbon copy) (27 cm; black boards) Photographs, reproductions from published items, and two original watercolour sketches presumably done by Eliza Jones, one of Kohanga Mission Station on the Waikato River and another of a river scene

Date: 1834-1869

By: Ashwell, Benjamin Yate (Rev), 1810-1883

Reference: qMS-0087-0090

Description: Letters and journals addressed to the Church Missionary Society; half of volume 1 deals with Paihia, and the balance of the material covers Ashwell's residence at Waikato Heads, Kaitotehe (Taupiri) on the Waikato Source of title - Transcribed Accompanying material - Newspaper clippings at front of vol 1 Quantity: 4 volume(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, printed matter (34cm, ¼ brown calf, brown linen) Finding Aids: Index at end of vol 4. Tracings of sketch maps interleaved

Date: ca 1847

By: Simcox, Francis Selwyn, 1880-1967

Reference: PAColl-7505

Description: Photograph of a plan of Rev Ashwell's school for native girls at Kaitotehe which shows the dormitory, school room, dining room and mission house. Photograph of a painting of the school by J J Merrett with the mission house next to it and two waka in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004441 and 005434 Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1859

From: Koch, Augustus Carl Ferdinand, 1834-1901: Photograph album of Bruno Hamel images of Government Scientific Exploring Expedition conducted by Dr Ferdinand Hochstetter

Reference: PA1-o-207-06

Description: Rev Benjamin Yates Ashwell's mission school at Taupiri, photographed in 1859 by Bruno Hamel. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Rev Ashwell Taupiri Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.9 x 20.3 cm mounted on album page

Date: 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-196-027

Description: Shows a mission station on the Waikato River, a cottage with a thatched roof, the residence of Mr Benjamin Ashwell. Two groups of Maori are seated outside the picket fence and gate. A small structure, possibly a bell-house is to the right of the house The original for a lithograph illustrating G F Angas' Savage life and scenes (London, 1847) vol 2, facing page 37. A similar watercolour is held by the National Library of Australia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 370 x 546 mm Provenance: Provenance; Capt. A W F Fuller

Date: 1865

From: Le Tour du Monde; nouveau journal des voyages. 1860-1894. 61 volumes.

By: Ade, Eduard, 1835-1907; Tour du Monde (Periodical)

Reference: PUBL-0153-1865-189

Description: Shows a group of pupils and teachers outside the school building of the Reverend Benjamin Yates Ashwell's mission school at Taupiri. Based on the photograph by Hamel (copy at PA1-o-207-06 - on Timeframes, also included in Hochstetter's "Neuseeland" opp page 306) Other Titles - Taupiri Maori school Extended Title - From "Le tour du monde; voyage a la Nouvelle-Zelande". Paris, Editions C.T.I.C., 1865, page 289. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 115 x 165 mm.

Date: 1844 - 1847

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

By: Giles, John West, 1801-1870

Reference: PUBL-0014-15

Description: The interior of Te Wherowhero's pa, with Taupiri Mountain rising in the background. There is a row of houses to the left, some with palisades around them, groups of people seated in the centre and other buildings, including pataka on the right. The pa is surrounded by a large palisade Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Other Titles - Tukupoto at Kaitote This image is based on a watercolour ('Tukupoto at Kaitote, Te Wherowhero's pah' in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured, 231 x 320 mm

Date: 1880

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :New Zealand scenery; original oil paintings [ca 1880]

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908

Reference: E-053-010

Description: Mount Taupiri in the background, covered with bush. A smaller mound below it, has a building on top. At its foot is a church, tents and low buildings. A stream is on the left, with a number of Maori walking along the riverbank path Other Titles - Showing Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil painting on page, 183 x 203 mm.

Date: 1872-1950

From: Grace, John Te Herekiekie (Sir), 1905-1985 : Grace family papers

Reference: 85-173-4/2

Description: Contains newspaper clippings, typescript extracts from Maori Land Court minute books and notes made by Grace about the history of the Ngati Raukawa tribe at Waikato and at Horowhenua Also contains newspaper clippings about the Native Land Court hearing (1892) for the Wharepuhunga block by the Ngati Raukawa tribe including representatives from Ngati Raukawa ki te tonga; the stories of Te Rauparaha's haka "Ka Mate, Ka Mate"; Te Whatanui's lament "Rongo korero au"; Koa's lament for Tiwaewae (Ngati Raukawa); various incidents during the migrations of the Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa tribes to Kapiti; and verbatim evidence from the Maori Land Court. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1850

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-089-4

Description: Shows four Maori in the centre foreground, including one child. The mission station house is in the centre background at the foot of a hill. Other Titles - February Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour, 110 x 165 mm