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[Eagle, Audrey Lily], 1926?- :Rhopalostylis sapida. Nikau palm, Port Charles, Coromande...

Date: 1970

From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]

Reference: A-437-540

Description: Shows flowers, berries, seeds, and complete tree of the nikau palm. Artist's list: Rhopolastylis [Rhopalostylis] sapida: Flowers Oct. 1970, capsules Feb. from a cult. plant Appears on page 1079 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand" Other Titles - January Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sheet 261 x 211 mm.

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Brown, Nigel, 1949- :Coromandel calling. Peninsula Watchdog, Box 51, Coromandel. Reprod...

Date: 1989

From: [Posters concerning the environment and environmental protection. 1984-1989].

By: Brown, Nigel Roderick, 1949-; Coromandel Peninsula Watchdog; Pringle, Michael James, 1962-

Reference: Eph-C-ENVIRONMENT-1989-01

Description: Poster featuring a Nigel Brown woodcut showing two figures looking at a waterfall flanked by nikau palms. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on poster 490 x 335 mm. Provenance: One copy donated by Michael Pringle, Wellington, in 2016.

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Foster-Barham, Beatrice 1942- :New Zealand prints [set. 1995?]

Date: 1990 - 1995

By: Foster-Barham, Beatrice, 1942-2009; Pasley, Malcolm, active 1990-1995

Reference: C-087-013/018

Description: Scenic landscapes showing tree-ferns, nikau palms, alpine flora, bush. Titles: Inlets (BFB026); Nikau palms (BFB025); Island (BFB022); Rainforest (BFB021); Alpine daisies (BFB024); Alpine buttercups (BFB023). Accompanied by promotional flyer and price list. Flyer shows all prints, with sides brought in slightly. Original price, 1995, was $5.50 per image, or $5.00 each if an order for over 30 was placed. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Beatrice Foster-Barham Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithographs on glossy paper, 420 x 595 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit by the publisher, Malcolm Pasley, in 1995.

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William and Francis Hunt among nikau Palms, Chatham Islands

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-23

Description: William Hunt of the Bluff, Pitt Island, his two mastifs, wife Frances, daughter Frances Mary, and sons Frederick William and Herbert Alexander. They are standing and seated among nikau palms. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). According to George Hough and Bill Carter this a Karl Gerstenkorn photograph taken in 1891. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

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Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :This is a native hutt, built of palm leaves and stakes dr...

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-048

Description: A small nikau whare in a clearing at the foot of a tree-fern and other taller trees. Drawn 1 June 1845. Caption added later referring to the 1847 Ngati Toa raid on Boulcott's Farm, Hutt Valley. Other Titles - hut Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. S. 1 June 1845.; On accompanying label: text of title, with date 24 Feb.y 1847 and initials W. S. in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on buff paper, 112 x 90 mm

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William and Francis Hunt among nikau Palms, Chatham Islands

Date: 1891

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-40

Description: William Hunt of the Bluff, Pitt Island, one of his two mastifs, wife Frances, daughter Frances Mary, and son Frederick William. They are standing and seated among nikau palms. A horse stands in the background. Photographed by Karl Gerstenkorn in 1891. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). According to George Hough and Bill Carter this a Karl Gerstenkorn photograph taken in 1891. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

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Rotorua album

Date: [Circa 1920s]

Reference: PA1-o-441

Description: Album of photographs taken circa 1920, by an unidentified photographer. None of the images have inscriptions; only a few places have been identified. Identifiable buildings and locations have been listed above. Many of the scenes are of a two-storey English cottage in the Arts & Crafts style, showing exterior and interior views. There is one of a viewing tower with windows and gables, possibly in the garden of the same house. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, entited "Photo-graphs"; 22.0 x 17.5 cm

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[Crompton, Amelia Dorothea] b 1842 :[House and garden in Omata, Taranaki? ca 1858]

Date: 1852 - 1860

From: Crompton, William Morgan, 1811-1886 :[Sketchbook in France and New Zealand] / W M Crompton and A D Crompton, 1844-1882

By: Crompton, Amelia Dorothea, 1842-1858

Reference: E-122-q-050

Description: A single-storeyed house with an established garden, including two flax bushes or young nikau and circular garden beds in a lawn, surrounded by trees, a fence and gate, and hedges. Further drawings of, unfinished, of one-storey houses. Possibly the Crompton family home in Omata Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 165 x 265 mm

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Pearse, John, 1808-1882 :Otaki. [ca 1852?]

Date: 1851 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-077-3

Description: A view of the east end of Rangiatea Church, Otaki, with a cottage to its right. Both buildings are behind a low picket fence. Two Maori are seated under a tree in the centre foreground Drawings of nikau and tree ferns on the reverse The house on the right may be that of Tamihana te Rauparaha Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on paper, 74 x 123 mm (irregular)

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[Howard, Eliot] :Titiranghi. In the kauri forest. June 18[91?]

Date: 1891

By: Howard, Eliot, active 1890s

Reference: A-234-002

Description: Native forest with kauri trunks, tree ferns and nikau From a sketchbook dated 1891 On same sheet as A-234-003: Mount Eden. Auckland Other Titles - Titirangi Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 178 x 127 mm

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Nikau Reserve and Barrytown

Date: 1986

From: Park, Geoffrey Nicholls, 1946-2009 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9392-070

Description: Papers and correspondence relating to the nikau scenic reserve at Barrytown, near Punakaiki Other Titles - Matter of place Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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William Hunt and sons, Pitt Island, Chatham Islands

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-08

Description: Native forest with nikau palms, Pitt Island, Chatham Islands. In the right foreground seated are (from left) William Hunt, and sons Frederick William Hunt, and Herbert Alexander Hunt. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

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Florance, Augustus H 1812-1879 :[Kauri timber millers and pitsaw]. 1876

Date: 1876

By: Florance, Augustus (Dr), 1812-1879

Reference: A-196-030

Description: A man sitting astride trimmed logs and kauri trunks, smoking a pipe while he watches another man felling a kauri. A tree fern and a nikau to the right. May possibly show Hutt Forest (where the artist lived) rather than the kauri forests of Northland. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: A.H.F. 1876 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone watercolour 207 x 247 mm

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[Eagle, Audrey Lily], 1926?- :Rhopalostylis (i); rhopalostylis aff. sapida. Fruit coll....

Date: 2000

From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]

Reference: A-437-541

Description: Shows flowers, berries, seeds, detail of stem or leaf junctions and complete tree of the nikau palm. Artist's list: R. aff. sapida: Male flowers 1.2.00, female flowers 11.2.00 from a cult. plant supplied by Helen Druce from Pinehaven Bot. Reserve. Drupes 20.1.00 coll. Amanda Baird, from Chatham I. Appears on page 1081 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand" Other Titles - January, February; Chatham Island; Department of Conservation Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sheet 332 x 262 mm.

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Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 :Nikau. April 19 1884. Waiuku. M C S.

Date: 1884

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 :[Sketchbooks] 1883-1899, 1904-1943.

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: E-300-q-1-043

Description: A study of a nikau palm at Waiuku Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 138 x 225 mm

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Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :[Nikau palms. 1892]

Date: 1892 - 1893

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-002

Description: A grove of mature nikau, probably in the Wellington or Manawatu regions Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook 130 x 180 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

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Spencer-Bower, Olivia, 1905-1982 :[Nikau palms, Punakaikai. 1950s?]

Date: 1940 - 1967

By: Spencer-Bower, Catherine Olivia Orme, 1905-1982; Tombs, Harry Hugo, 1874-1966

Reference: E-010-f-007

Description: Shows nikau palm trees on the West Coast. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour print on postcard, 90 x 139 mm. Provenance: From the Harry H Tombs collection, 1967.

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Group of Moriori or Maori, Chatham Island

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-47

Description: A group of Moriori or Maori men and women standing and seated beside two nikau palms. A stand of native forest can be seen behind them in the distance. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

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The home of the Nikau. Croixelles NZ. Ingleboro photo series no. A2894

Date: Between 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0192

Description: The Nikau, Croisilles, taken by photographer from Ingleboro studio ca 1910-1913. Other Titles - The home of the Nikau Croisilles NZ Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph 88 x 138 mm

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Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965 :Nikau at Morere. [1943?]

Date: 1943

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-378-075

Description: Shows a grove of young nikau in the shade of taller trees in a bush setting. Other Titles - Nikau palms Morere Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Verso - centre - [Other title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 355 x 255 mm.

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