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Date: 1984

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6566

Description: Reconstruction of a giant moa, National Museum, Wellington (20 October 1984). Clematis paniculata in flower, York Bay, Lower Hutt (25 August 1984). Sunset over Wellington Harbour (8 October 1984). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard mounts.

Date: 1993

By: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-; NZ Truth (Newspaper)

Reference: H-091

Description: Cartoon featuring Jim Bolger and Ruth Richardson Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: 1952 - 1956

By: Turner, Dennis Knight, 1924-2011; Barrow, Terence Tui, 1923-2001

Reference: A-011-001/053

Description: Sketches of Waitomo Caves Dating: Dennis Knight Turner became a guide at Waitomo Caves in ca 1952. Quantity: 53 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketches sizes vary Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts and Archives Section.

Date: 1848

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

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

Reference: C-103-125-3

Description: The thigh bone and another bone of a large moa Mantell was in the area between Wellington and New Plymouth in 1845. The name Puketapu is not in modern use in these areas. Other moa bones recorded by Mantell were found in the New Plymouth area Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 194 x 126 mm

Date: 1868

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

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-372-f-016

Description: Shows a man looking at a display of dinornis skeletons labelled - Dinornis didiformis, didnornis crassus, giganteus, elephant..us, robustus, dinornis casuarinus. Extended Title - From Illustrated London news, Vol 52, Jan-Jun 1868, p 144 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 170 x 238 mm

Date: 1884

From: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926 :New Zealand sketches in black and white. 1884.

Reference: E-310-q-011

Description: The skeleton of the moa, dinornis maximus, with a man lecturing about it, a table and drinking-water at his side. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink in bound album, page size 173 x 252 mm

Date: 1970 - 1982

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-144-964/986

Description: Includes cartoons about: Rodent bounties; glow-worms in Waitomo Caves; the use of monkeys in finding cures for diseases; the cats who live in Parliament refuse to leave; recycling stray dog meat as pet food; octopuses duck as ship passes over them; ducks decide to migrate in duckshooting season; Eric Heath's cat Clyde; rabbit advisory officers to visit farms; Animal Week; pets blessed in a church service; The Great Hairy Moehau Expedition; smuggling snakes; ban on taking toheroas; live snake sent through the mail; black rabbits sent away; Lake Taupo inhabited by aquatic dinosaurs; four pukeko at large in Wellington; luring the laughing owl attracts moas; gin traps; ballooning spiders drift from Australia; Clyde reacts to vivisection; cat given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged at around the estimated date. Quantity: 23 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 510 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1880 - 1956 - 1889 - 1958

From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].

Reference: B-140-021

Description: Six-panelled account of an alleged sighting of a moa in the Martin's Bay area, Fiordland, by Alice McKenzie (later Mrs Peter Mackenzie), aged 7, in 1880. Her father saw the spot and measured footprints, and her brother saw a moa-like bird in 1889 in the distance These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.

Date: 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: A-228-008

Description: An extensive view of Kakanui beach, looking out to sea from the low hills just behind the beach. Moeraki is marked on the southernmost point on the right and the Kakanui River is also indicated to the right. Two small ticks on the top of the hill to the right indicate the location of 'a native garden out of which several Moa bones had been dug'. Three ticks, just south of the river mouth mark the spot where Wills' drawing no. 11 (A-228-009) was taken. 'The dotted lines are boundaries of native reserves'. Exhibitied in 'Drawn From Nature: Europeans Record New Zealand, 1770-1860' exhibition at the National Library Gallery, 31 March to 28 May 1989. Other Titles - Kakanui Inscriptions: Recto - top right - No 8. See also: E-281-009 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash in two colours 2.6 x 8 inches

Date: 1867-1868

From: Cooke, I V :Photographs of New Zealand and Australia

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-045

Description: Photographs taken in 1867 and 1868 by Daniel Louis Mundy. Collection comprises: moa skeletons on display in the Canterbury Museum, Maori man sitting in front of a flax plant in the Hokianga, a black pine forest in Westland, miners' whares at Tararu creek in the Thames goldfield, Punch Bowl Falls, Otira Gorge, fern trees at Governor's Bay, waterfall at Waihi at the head of lake Taupo, tramway at Moanataiari in the Thames goldfield, bush at German Bay (Akaroa), Waitohi creek in the Thames goldfield, Onoke (Hokianga), kauri forest at Wairere Stream (Hokianga), Wild Missouri and Russell's batteries at Tararu Creek, waterfalls at Banks Peninsula and Otira Gorge. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album bound in green morrocco, with gold tooling, 41.2 x 30.2 cm

Date: 1984

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6565

Description: View north east from near Whenuapo, and toetoe in flower (28 August 1984). Reconstruction of giant moa in the National Museum, Wellington (20 October 1984). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard mounts.

Date: 1848

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

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

Reference: C-103-125-2

Description: Drawings of the fossilised bones of a moa, found near Te Henui, New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 137 x 125 mm

Date: 1993

By: Walker, Malcolm, 1950-; Sunday News (Newspaper)

Reference: H-090

Description: Cartoon featuring Mike Moore and a moa Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: [ca 1880s-1966]

By: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979; Burke, Walter Ernest Messervy, 1866-1954; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-4454

Description: Mounted photographs of a moa skeleton compared with a human one; a view from Cains Terrace, Timaru showing the Post Office and old St Mary's Church; a group of Maori in traditional clothes outside the carved meeting house at Ohinemutu, Rotorua; view of Parihaka pa with Te Whiti's house on the left and Mount Taranaki in the background; Sir George Grey's house at Kawau Island with a jetty; two stuffed kiwi and a kiwi egg; a woman sitting outside a Maori whare with a pig; a man standing outside the Vulcan Hotel, St Bathans with advertisements for Gaytime ice-cream and Speights beer 1966; and a loose print of a young woman sitting at the pihanga of a meeting house with a carved pare. Photographers include Walter Burke. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-029165, 071676, 071677, 071678, and 071696. Two of the images are described as the same as 1/2-031035 and 1/2-015845 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 7 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

Date: 1990 - 2002

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: A-366-380/430

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues in New Zealand and overseas. Quantity: 51 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black felt pen drawings on paper, sizes vary.

From: Crimp, Daryl 1958- :Cartoons entered in the 1993 Qantas Media Awards

Reference: A-299-013

Description: Shows two DOC workers out in the bush looking for a moa. One of them is totally unaware that he is standing directly underneath a huge moa which is about to deposit a large egg on his head. Refers to investigations by D.O.C. of supposed sightings of a moa on the West Coast. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies.

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-533

Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm

Date: 2001

By: The Australian (Newspaper); Nicholson, Peter, active 2000s

Reference: DX-007-002

Description: Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..

Date: 2008

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005069

Description: The scene is bush-covered mountains in the Ureweras. A dodo stands on the back of a mastodon and says that it can't see any moas for panthers, emus, yetis and giant geckos. Refers to New South Wales natural science researcher Rex Gilroy who believes there is a colony of the presumed-extinct little scrub moa in the Urewera Ranges. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1849

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

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

Reference: E-281-q-037

Description: A humorous drawing of a moa up to its neck in mud Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink and wash 50 x 115 mm