Places

Date: 1863 - 1922

From: Cowan, James :The New Zealand wars. Wellington, Government Printer, 1922.

By: Bates, Henry Stratton, 1836-1918

Reference: PUBL-0054-1-241

Description: Conical military tents on a field, with farm buildings to the right, the redoubt spread across a low hill in the middle distance and wooded hills behind. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of watercolour (book illustration)

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-015

Description: Two soldiers, one standing, one on horseback, gazing in the direction of a large wooden-fenced fort on the right of the Mangapiko Stream, with the palisades of the opposing Maori pa just visible on the brow of a hill in the distance. There is a low bridge across the creek, with a road leading up the right bank towards the fort. Probably copied by Hamley from a drawing of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, although the original for this view is not known. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 88 x 177 mm

Date: 1863

From: Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :[Notes and sketches of Maori fortifications, 1839-1863] [1] Notes relative to sketches; [2] Fighting stages Waitangi, Chatham I[slan]d. 1839; Waimate pa, 1839; Sunset Point, Auckland; Summit of Rangitoto Island, Auckland; [3] Ruapekapeka, section along red line in sheet 6 [4] Tauranga Ika Pah; [5] Earthworks at Rangiriri, Waikato, 1863; Plan of a pa, Massacre Bay, 1839; Section of a wall near a gateway; [6] [Unidentified pa, sketch signed by R. Chapman]; Rangiriri, sketch of Maori works taken the day of the capture, 1863.

Reference: B-043-015-5-1

Description: Shows trenches and walls of the Rangiriri fortification. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph of pen drawing and notes on sheet 395 x 470 mm

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-006

Description: Looking down from above at the military camp on the left, the river and low hills beyond. A road lies to the right of the camp, with a figure on horseback and a man walking. Soldiers, tents, gun carriages and supplies can be seen in the camp. Copied from a watercolour by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams 'Meremere, N.Z. [1864]', on p. 18 of the Hocken Library's E. A. Williams' sketchbook (now separately mounted) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 136 x 202 mm

Date: 1864

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096090-G

Description: Meremere, on the bank of the Waikato River. The volunteer camp is visible in the distance. Photograph taken in 1864 by Daniels Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 22 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-090

Description: Shows tents and a whare in a military encampment. Title from opposite page Other Titles - Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 100 x 160 mm

Date: 1863

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-145-004

Description: Shows Royal Navy storming party in earthworks, Rangiriri Pa (Waikato/Tauranga War, 1863-4). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen sketch 228 x 305 mm

Date: 1863

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-072

Description: A military tent in the right foreground by the banks of the Waikato River. The roof of another building can be seen below the bank closer to the river, with a further building atop a hill in the background. The river is shown fringed with trees and hills. Meremere was the site of a major battle in the Tauranga-Waikato campaign of the New Zealand wars. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 90 x 174 mm

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-067

Description: View up the Waikato River with soldiers and a military tent on the bank to the left and a paddle steamer further up the river The paddle steamer is likely to be the Koheroa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 100 x 160 mm

Date: 1864 - 1921

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Cowan, James, 1870-1943

Reference: A-138-036-2

Description: View identifying Waiari, from the period of the New Zealand Wars Waikato-Tauranga Campaign in 1864. On the same sheet at A-138-036-1 and pasted to A-138-036: Map of Waiari Pa. Probably drawn as an illustration for James Cowan's 'The New Zealand Wars' (Wellington, 1922) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 64 x 60 mm

Date: 1864 - 1870

Reference: B-174-003

Description: Shows a view across a river, to the settlement of Ngaruawahia on the far side, with the Māori King's residence, tents and huts and a red flag flying. A Māori man in traditional cloak surveys the scene from the centre foreground holding a taiaha. There is a paddlesteamer in the river at the right. The presence of military tents probably means the scene dates from the Waikato wars 1860-1872. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 245 x 358 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1864

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096088-G

Description: Queens Redoubt, Pokeno, photographed in 1864 by Daniel Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 20 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1864 - 1865

From: Fraser, I T[allon?] B :[Scrapbook. 1864-1910].

Reference: E-571-q-006

Description: View across the Waikato River of the Bluff Stockade at the top of a cleared hill, with low tree stumps. Bush on either side of the hill and a hut and another building at the water's edge. Extended Title - From his scrapbook, 1864-1910. Page [4]. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]. Also title and signature along the base of the image Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Pencil 176 x 255 mm, on page 290 x 235 mm.

Date: 1863

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: PUBL-0033-1863-573

Description: A view from across the river towards a steep hill, crowned with the Alexandra Redoubt. Six Maori canoes are on the river and a raupo hut is in the right foreground. A tree frames the view on the left. A small hut and figures can be seen on the opposite bank. The fort itself has several buildings within low walls, and a flagpole with flag flying Based on an ink and wash drawing by H. J. Warre [Encampment by a river, 1863] in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia, NK2179. (photograph held in Photo File, Drawings and Prints Collection) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving

Date: 1863 - 1887 - 1864

By: Wilson, John Alexander, 1829-1909; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927

Reference: A-109-050

Description: Battle scene with groups of soldiers from the Forest Rangers and the 65th Regiment, plus General Cameron and staff, with guns firing and horses, several dead or wounded men, Maori whares in the background and bush and hills. Soldiers are identified by name and the death of General Nixon is shown. The man directing the Forest Rangers is likely to be von Tempsky. After an original by J.A.Wilson, a witness to the battle, and depicted in this view. A copy of the original and a description of the battle is published in Cowan, J. The New Zealand wars. Vol. 1 p. 345. Lieutenant McDonnell is likely to be Thomas McDonnell (1832-1899), noted for his heroism at Rangiaowhia. His brother, William McDonnell (1839-1919?) also fought in the New Zealand wars, but in the Wanganui area. Both were sons of Thomas McDonnell (1788-1864) of Hokianga Other Titles - McHales' body Rangiaowhia Extended Title - From: Gudgeon, T. W. The defenders of New Zealand. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 165 x 280 mm

Date: 1864

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096091-G

Description: Rangiriri, photographed in 1864 by Daniel Manders Beere. Tents of the volunteer camp are just visible in the distance. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 23 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1863

From: Haines, Bernard Gilpin, b 1842 :Photographs compiled while on active service with the 18th Royal Irish Regiment during the New Zealand Wars

Reference: PA1-f-027-38-1

Description: British soldiers at a redoubt in Rangiriri, 1863. Taken by an unidentified photographer. This photograph was probably taken after Maori had surrendered at Rangiriri on 21 November 1863 after a confrontation with British troops of General (Sir) Duncan Alexander Cameron. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - [difficult to read - two pencil versions of what is probably supposed to be Rangiriri] Rangariri Rangarui Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1863

By: Tempsky, Gustavus Ferdinand von, 1828-1868; Eastwood, Charles, 1848-1868

Reference: A-198-001

Description: The Alexandra Redoubt on a bank high above the Waikato river. Two soldiers standing on top of the bank to the right. Has been attributed on stylistic grounds to Charles Eastwood; however it may also be the work of Von Tempsky Inscriptions: Recto - title and 'by von Tempsky' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 226 x 290 mm

Date: between 1861 and 1863

From: Urquhart album

By: Temple, William, 1833-1919

Reference: PA1-q-250-27-2

Description: Unidentified group of Maori men and women alongside a surveyor's tripod on the military road at Pokeno, Waikato, photographed between 1861-1863 by William Temple. In "An illustrated history of New Zealand, 1820-1920", Judith Binney interprets this image as a deliberate attempt by a group of Maori men and women to stop work on the military road from Auckland to the Waikato which was initiated by the Crown in late 1861. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Group of Maories [sic] at Pokeno, N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 7 x 16.8 cm, with trimmed upper corners, mounted on album page 27.1 x 21.7 cm Processing information: Record was updated on 15 August 2022 to allow the attached digital surrogate to be purchasable.

Date: 1863

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-145-005

Description: Looking along the top of an earth wall at right. There is a trench to the left of it, and the left wall of the trench has regular arched niches in it. In the right background is a lake with canoes on it. Two cabbage trees are on the left Similar to ink sketches of the same subject, with the addition of the arch-shaped niches. The defence works were built on the ridge between July and November 1863, by the Waikato supporters of the Maori King movement, in preparation for a confrontation with British troops under General (Sir) Duncan Alexander Cameron. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - [Title in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash sketch, 255 x 337 mm