Places

Date: [ca 1863]

From: Mantell family : Papers

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: qMS-1306

Description: Index to blocks of land in Invercargill, Dunedin, Picton, Napier and Wellington, with notes for disposal. At end is a copy of the petition of Singleton Rochfort relative to H K Taiaroa. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (162 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (32 cm; ½ brown roan, brown marbled boards in ¼ blue morocco case)

Date: 1840

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-012-2

Description: A profile view of the head of a Maori woman, inscribed Inenuitepo, bracketed with Mardia, then the word Kipa, evidently a transliteration of a Maori phrase. The woman has an earring. Another profile, possibly of a man, below. Bottom right, a small drawing of the Sugar Loaf rocks and Paritutu at New Plymouth, viewed from the south, with the coastline on the right On the reverse of C-103-012-1, a set of cartoons dated 1840. Removed from a sketchbook. Other Titles - Nui te po. The Sugar Loaves, Taranaki Inscriptions: Recto - across the face of the woman. Apparently an attempt to copy out Maori words, probably including 'nui te po' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and wash, 214 x 127 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell family :Maps

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: MapColl-834caq/[ca.1848]/Acc.23676

Description: Geological sketch of the middle and southern part of the South Island, from Mantell's route from Akaroa to Kaiapoi, south along the coast to Dunedin and return by sea. Names (mostly in Maori) rivers, coastal areas and lakes. Stuarts (Stewart) Island is shown. Shows Maori tracks from interior lakes to the coast, with travel times in days. Marks 'wahi pounamu', route of the author's track, and the boundary of the land block purchased by Commissioner Henry Tacy Kemp, JP. Also marks rock type as per reference key, including slate and quartz conglomerate, limestone, diluvial, tertiary and green gritty marl. Written on reverse in pencil: Dr Mantell [with address that is difficult to decipher] See also similar map, shelved at MapColl-834caq/[ca.1848]/Acc.23675 See also similar map by Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell entitled [Map of South Island & Stewart Island N.Z. 1848], held in Drawings and Prints, reference number C-103-049 Drawn while Mantell was Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles, and surveying Native reserves with Wills Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, glued to cardboard, scale indeterminable, 20.4 x 19.5 cm on card 27.7 x 23 cm

Date: 1840

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-003-6

Description: View looking up the Whanganui River from the Putiki (south) side with snow-clad Mount Ruapehu in the distance. In the foreground is Putiki Pa with the wharenui (meeting house) standing separately, surrounded by a palisade on the right. Other smaller buildings are more distant, surrounded by palisades. Two waka (canoes) are drawn up by the shore. Other Titles - Wharenui Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title and date Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 81 x 208 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-281-q-046

Description: A single tall storage platform with a bundle of food and a person seated beside the bundle. Hills in the background. Other Titles - Te Waiateruati Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 64 x 104 mm on sheet 96 x 134 mm Processing information: Formerly located, unbound, in Mantell, W. B. D. Sketchbook, no. 3, 1848 (E-334). Previously given the mistaken title Funerary platform

Date: 1840

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-003-5

Description: Two small houses close to the river at Wanganui. One is surrounded with a palisade and may be Maori. Both houses may be part of Putiki Pa Other Titles - Whare ekei Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title and date Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 75 x 120 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell family :Maps

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: MapColl-832.2gbbd/[ca.1848]/Acc.343

Description: Manuscript map with cadastral information showing land offered for sale by Aperahawa, Raharuha and party, north of Devon Road between the Waiongana and the Mangaoraka Streams, Waitara, New Plymouth. Shows the boundary continuing along Pakohenui River and Pukeowaka, two areas of land 'left to Whaitere', the Port Nicholson boundary, Ngahuinga settlement, Mahoetahi Pa, Manukau, Morere, Bele Block, Hua Block, te Putaatutonga and the beach. Pencil annotation on map 'Mantell'. Title added in pencil Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 40 x 25 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Mantell family Papers MS-Group-0305.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-049

Description: Elevated whata (food storage platforms) with low fences, two dwellings, and, in the left distance, the remains of an earlier pa, including the two Ti (cabbage) trees referred to in the name of the pa. People seated and standing around the pa. Shows Te Wai te Rua Ti pa, near Temuka Other Titles - Te Wai a te rua ti Pa, near Temuka Inscriptions: Recto - title and date in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-080

Description: Several images on one pagle. At the top of the page, two shacks and a cabbage tree, 'Smith's station' at the mouth of the Waianakarua, looking inland, with the river to the right. Left, below that, Taiaroa standing on the beach, staff in hand, appearing to be speaking, observed by several people lying down. The title refers to Rauparaha's conquest of the east coast and to the local paramount chief's defiance while Rauparaha is safely in the North Island on Kapiti. Below on the right, three drawings of the same man's head in a bonnet, and a right-angles, a coastal view looking north along the beach from Onekakara, Moeraki, with several canoes pulled up on shore to the left. At the bottom left of the page, a cryptic drawing possibly of a rocky outcrop, titled Penal Sett. Moeraki, possibly refering to the number of ex-convicts amongst the whalers at Moeraki Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 28 Quantity: 5 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-160/161

Description: View from Rapaki looking down into Lyttelton Harbour, across two pages. The location of Rhodes' place at Purau is noted. Details of several shark's tooth ornaments in the sky area on page 161. An additional smaller drawing inside a drawn frame on page 161, opposite orientation, titled 'From boat Port Levi' (Levy) looking up Port Levy to the steep hills at its head Other Titles - Levy Inscriptions: Recto - Top of page: Aug 28; Recto - Top of pg 160 Port Cooper ....[title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil across two pages, 120 x 400 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-050

Description: Elevated whata (food storage platforms) with low fences, four dwellings, including one close to the ground in the foreground and one showing a European influence with a chimney slightly right of centre in the background. A flag may be flying from the building in the left background. People seated and standing around the pa. Other Titles - Te Wai a te rua ti Pa, near Temuka Inscriptions: Recto - title and date in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1847 - 1828

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-025-2

Description: A huge wooden carving of head and neck, surrounded by a ring of stones, in a bare landscape. The top of the head is damaged, probably by weather. A Maori is standing to the left One of 9 small drawings on this sheet Te Namu is in South Taranaki near Opunake. Other Titles - New Plymouth, about Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink, 80 x 110 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-078

Description: Shows the interior of Te Punaomara Pa, Waitaki River, with food storage platforms, a whare, cooking pots on a fire, a blanket hung up to dry. A Maori woman is seated on the ground, wrapped in a blanket, and a man is seated in the distance. To the left is a European man drawing in his sketchbook (probably Mantell's travelling companion and fellow-surveyor, Alfred Wills), while the artist's own boots and pack are in the centre foreground. A dog is also seated to the right. Te Punaomara was a pa on the Waitaki River at the crossing place Other Titles - Te Punaomara Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen sketch 190 x 229 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-056

Description: A panoramic view of Te Wai a te Rua Ti Pa (near Temuka, South Canterbury) running along the top half of the page, with Mantell's tent to the right. A smaller view of a large storage platform titled 'Taraputikitiki' with a ladder leading up the platform and a palisade below it. In the bottom right, a profile head and shoulders portrait of Te Rehe, the Waiteruati chief, a member of the Kati Huirapa iwi, a sub-tribe of Ngai Tahu. Behind him is another view of the storage platform in the distance and there is a frontal view of facial features, possibly those of Te Rehe, a separate drawing of a mouth, and of chin moko, probably also those of Te Rehe Other Titles - Te Wai a te rua ti Pa, near Temuka. Mahatinui. Tanetiki. Urekura. Tanaputakitaki. Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-004/005

Description: Shows a two lines of distant trees near the foothills; a closer line of trees, including cabbage trees, and a small Maori shelter near water in the foreground Other Titles - Arowhenua Other Titles - Te Waiteruati Inscriptions: Recto - Kohana - Patewhatia; Recto - beneath image - Te Waituere Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (on double page). Physical Description: Pencil, 60 x 400 mm (page size)

Date: 1852

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: A-049-027

Description: A raupo-roofed dwelling with ridge-pole and barge boards and a large food storage platform outside it. The palisades of a pa beyond the house and a squatting figure below the platform. Hills in the background Title from verso Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 47 x 75 mm Transfers: Transferred from Mantell family papers (MS Papers 0083-343, letter to Gideon Mantell, Dunedin, 27 June 1852).

Date: 1851

From: Mantell family :Maps

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: MapColl-834.6gbbd/1851/Acc.3261

Description: Title pencilled on back Second chart is cut and mounted on either side of first First 1/2 neg = 1/2-C-011794A & B and 2nd 1/2 neg. = 1/2-C-011744A Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 25 x 70 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Mantell family Papers MS-Group-0305.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: E-334-051

Description: 6 drawings on one page, showing from top left, two views of storage platforms titled Te Owiwa or Te Owina, and 'forries and futters' [whares and whatas]. The 3rd view is of a pa alongside a river, with a whare and a storage platform, the 4th of a large egg, possibly a moa's egg. The 5th is titled W te R. Remains of pa f... Hap 1851 and another illegible word. It shows several carved niu poles, and a cabbage tree, with a plain and hills beyond and an unidentified object in front on the ground. The 6th is titled Ruataniwha and dated Sept 7, and is signed A. W. (Alfred Wills). It shows a pa alongside a river, possibly the same site as no. 3, with a stand of bush behind it, at Ruataniwha (a name no longer in current use) Ruataniwha was the name of the pa on the site that eventually became Twizel, South Canterbury Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1851

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-105-1

Description: The Aparima River curving around on the left, with a Maori dwelling and several people on the river bank to the right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen & blue wash, 59 x 178 mm

Date: 1844

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-001-1

Description: A self-drawn moko by an unknown Maori man, Possibly Te Whatanui, with the different parts of the design identified in Maori, e.g. 'Te ngu' for the upper nose area, 'te wha' for the chin area. The tattoo is for the nose, chin and cheek. In the background is a set of faint drawings by W. B. D. Mantell, including hands holding a plant. On the reverse are several pencil drawings by Mantell of Maori carvings, a whare or cottage, and a hut, inscribed 'Otaki 1844' 'Te Whatanui's whata, Ranginui, Otaki'. 'Ohau, Muhunoa' and an illegible word in Maori, probably a person's name written by him- or herself while learning to write Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 125 x 169 mm