Places

Date: [1961-1962]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-54

Description: Comprises reports and notes on old Maori burial ground at Paretoa; the site of the outrigger canoe hull, nr Te Horo (with map); unusual adze form pendant, nr Waikanae; Maori net floats; preliminary tour of Horowhenua by Palmerston North Polynesian group, with map showing pa; circular letter to Wairarapa and Manawatu; problematical contents of a Wairarapa Maori cache; cloak-pin or fish-threader bodkin from Castlepoint; memoranda of a Maori skull from the Waikanae dune-belt; identification of a large wooden artefact, nr Waikanae; from Keith Cairns re Maori sites; photographs, L Horowhenua and eastern end of L Papaitonga Arrangement: Notebook no 53 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1841

By: Duppa, George, 1817-1888; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: C-029-005

Description: A panoramic view of New Plymouth viewed from the sea, with Gannet and Albatross Islands on the right, the Wai Tera (Waitara) 'originally fixed on for the New Plymouth Settlement", the 'present site of New Plymouth' (before any houses were built) - all on the left side of the panorama. On the right are Mount Egmont, 'Barrett's [Accommodation] Houses and Hotel', 'Native Pah' and the Sugar Loaf Islands 'The islands on which Barrett defeated 5000 natives' In 'Information relating to New Plymouth (London, Smith Elder, 1841). p. 9-10, under 'Climate and soil' 'Mr G. Duppa states:- 'Amongst other sketches, I have sent you a panoramic view of the Sugar Loaves, Mount Egmont, and the Taranaki district generally, which I made when I went down there in the Brougham, with the Plymouth Company's surveyors. It will give you a better idea of the country than any verbal description I could give, beyond a few observations. The land for about three miles inland is slightly undulating, but not so steep but that a plough would go over the whole of it ... It is for the most part covered with fern and brushwood (which fire levels with the ground) for several miles inland, when you first meet with groves of timber, present a most park-like aspect ...' Quantity: 2 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithographs, hand-coloured, 190 x 1450 mm (total length of full panorama)

Date: 1845

From: [Duppa, George 1817-1888] :[Sketchbook ca 1852-1860]

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: E-080-q-3-002

Description: An inlet in the Marlborough Sounds, with two wading birds, possibly shags, in the foreground, a small canoe with occupants by a rocky outcrop in the middle ground, bush and the palisades of a pa to the right. High hills in the background. In one of George Duppa's sketchbooks. Fox and Duppa were in a farming partnership while Fox was living in Nelson between 1843 and 1848. In addition, Fox is know to have spent March 1845 exploring the country north of the Wairau River. One of the watercolours by Fox in the Hocken Library is entitled Melville Cove. S. side of Cook's Straits. 1845. It is a view from a higher standpoint looking down on the bay, with Maori whare close to the shore among trees, and two Maori canoes on the water. The date on the Hocken watercolour is the basis for the date ascribed to the Turnbull's drawing Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Title. W. Fx Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 185 x 270 mm

Date: 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-007

Description: Looking south along the beach at Moturoa, Taranaki, with a canoe pulled up on the beach in the foreground, the palisades of Moturoa pa and Paritutu Rock and part of the Sugar Loaf rocks visible The artist's reference in the title to 'land Sugar Loaf' is to Paritutu rock, a sugarloaf-shaped rock on the shore, whereas the remaining sugarloaf-shaped rocks are out to sea. Other Titles - Moturoa landing Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 215 x 290 mm

Date: 1999

By: Auckland (N.Z. : Region). Regional Council; New Zealand. Department of Conservation; Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010

Reference: Eph-D-LOCAL-Auckland-1999-01/04

Description: Includes: Stonefields of South Auckland. Shows on one side a re-creation of everyday activities in a Maori pa - the view looks north over the Puhinui Stream and Matukutureia stonefields at Manurewa. South Auckland. Maungarei (Mt Wellington) can be seen in the background and Rangitoto Island in the distance. The verso includes photographs and text about the stonefields. Conserving Auckland's maritime heritage. Shows a reconstruction of a scene showing the arrival of the Tainui Canoe at Devonport. Shows settlements on Mount Victoria, North head, and Rangitoto in the distance. The verso shows Devonport's historic foreshore (including European landmarks) Our heritage - landscapes - One Tree Hill, Shows an aerial photograph of One Tree Hill (Maungakiekie) with emphasis on the geological shaping. Our heritage - landscapes - Mangere Mountain. Shows an aerial photograph of the extinct crater of mangere Mountain (Te Pane o Mataaho). Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying around 420 x 610 mm. Transfers: Accompanied by eight postcards - "Our heritage - landscape" - housed at Eph-A-GEOLOGY-ca1998..

Date: 1893

By: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927

Reference: A-176-010

Description: A photograph of a chromolithographic print. Shows the Maori settlement at Ohinemutu and St Faith's Church Extended Title - Illustrating story: The way of our grandfathers Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph, black and white, 5.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1784

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-111-011-a

Description: A pierced rock in Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay as in the title), with a pa on top. Shows Maori in canoes Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway Same as A-111-011 Other Titles - pa Extended Title - From Anderson, G W, ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. Derived from Hawkesworth, J. voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 1890 - 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, 1890

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937

Reference: A-274-029-2

Description: Looking east across Lake Horowhenua towards Horowhenua Pa with part of a palisade, four whare (one on stilts) and small canoes at the water's edge. Posts in the water mark the position of a eel weir. There are flax or raupo, a cabbage tree and other trees on the far bank and hills in the background Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, on sheet 143 x 221 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

Date: 1889

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890

By: Allan, Joseph Stuart, 1861-1930

Reference: B-110-022-3

Description: A view from the shore at Plimmerton, looking out past Rangihaeata's Taupo Pa towards Mana Island Based on a lithograph by G. F. Angas 'Rangihaeata's Pah', plate 57 in his 'The New Zealanders illustrated' (London, 1847) One of three lithographs on the same sheet, all probably the work of J. S. Allan, whose signature appears on the first of the three. Other Titles - Porirua, Rangihaeata's pah, pa Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, on sheet 183 x 252 mm

Date: 1784

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771

Reference: A-111-011

Description: A pierced rock in Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay) with a pa on top. Shows also Maori paddling canoes Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway Same as A-111-011-a Other Titles - Pa Extended Title - From Anderson, G W, ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. Derived from Hawkesworth, J. Voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 1824 - 1825 - 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: Tardieu, Ambroise, 1788-1841

Reference: C-082-099

Description: View from the water of a Maori canoe with fifteen Maori on board. Two men are rowing and two other people are holding oars; one a man in European clothes standing near the prow of the waka on the left, the other a woman with a child strapped to her back, standing at the stern on the right. In the background across the water is the extremely steep site of Kahuwera Pa, on the northern shore of the Bay of Islands. Kahuwera Pa was viewed by Duperrey and his crew on 9 April 1824 Proof copy, based on a watercolour drawing by Antoine Chazal, in its turn based on a watercolour drawing by Jules LeJeune, artist with Duperrey during his 1824 visit to the Bay of Islands. The original drawing has the same number of people aboard, but differently arranged. The details of the canoe are quite different. There are many more buildings shown at Kahuwera in the original than in the copy. The original drawing is in the Bibliotheque du Service Historique de la Marine, Vincennes, Paris. The title of the original is Habitants de la N.lle Zelande, avec une vue de leur place fortifiee ou Hippah - 10 avril 1824. Chazal's watercolour is located at C-082-098. Other Titles - Canoe of the inhabitants of New Zealand. Extended Title - From: Duperrey, Louis Isidore. Voyage autour du monde ... 1822 ... 1825. Paris 1826. Atlas Historique. Plate 45. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, black and white 123 x 192 mm (image) on proof sheet 229 x 309, plate-mark 239 x 330 mm on sheet 337 x 495 mm

Date: 1845 - 1848 - 1846

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-015

Description: Five drawings on one page. From the top, 'Heke's first pah' shows Hone Heke's pa in the background, with Lake Omapere in the foreground, groups of Maori gathered. 'Landing a canoe' shows a long waka landing by pa pallisades to the right, with a volcanic peak in the background. Seated and standing men are in the canoe, and on land. Five rowers are waving oars in the air. The view of Tamaki shows a rolling landscape with a ridged volcanic peak in the background. 'Three seated Maori' have their cloaks wrapped around them. 'Chief at Taupo' is a profile view of a man in a cloak, with bushy receding hair, possibly Te Heu Heu. Other Titles - Omapere Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of five sepia ink and wash drawings

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Dominion Museum (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-D-MAORI-1940s-02

Description: Information sheet has two sections. The top section relates to Maori canoes - tree-felling, hollowing out. Shows a mokihi or raft, a river canoe, war canoe and fishing canoe as well as a canoe bailer. Shows a reproduction of a picture of canoes at Gisborne in 1836, by Joel Samuel Polack. The lower section shows scenes of Maori warfare and weaponry, reproductions of pictures of war canoes, a haka, patu and other weapons (includes George French Angas' "Weapons and implements of war ; warriors preparing for a fight" 1847; his "War dance before the Pah of Oinemutu, near Rotorua Lake"; and J I McDonald's [Alarm in a Maori pa] 1906); a photograph of a model of a pa in the Dominion Museum, and a picture of the earthworks at Gate Pa. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet 592 x 457 mm.

Date: 1841 - 1847

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-086

Description: Four drawings on one page. At the top, 'Te Kakari' a seated man in a flax skirt. He has his arms folded. He has full moko. Centre, a study of a tall kahikitea in a forest, with cabbage trees, flax and other forest trees. Bottom left, three waka, being rowed. Bottom right, the remains of a pa on a low hill Other Titles - Kahikitea Pa Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of four drawings, various media

Date: 1841 - 1843

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-122-b

Description: A group of Maori in haka formation, holding canoe paddles in the air. They are dancing in front of Ohinemutu pa's palisades. Large whare and pataka are visible beyond the palisades. Several waka are on the beach to the right, with one tied up in the foreground. Further people are seated and standing to the right A drawing copied by G F Angas in 1844 without acknowledgement to Merrett. It was reproduced as a lithograph in Angas' The New Zealander illustrated (London, 1847), plate 53 Other Titles - Ohinemutu pa Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of ink and wash drawing

Date: 1840 - 1846

By: Le Breton, Louis Auguste Marie, 1818-1866; A Gide, active 1846; Blanchard, Henri Pierre Leon Pharamond, 1805-1873; Thierry Freres (Firm)

Reference: B-187-008

Description: Several Maori dwellings, and a storage platform inside a pa, probably at Russell. The nearest house has a carved lintel and elaborate carvings can be seen inside the door. Part of a large war canoe can be seen to the right Another copy held at P 910.4 DUM 1841-1846 (PUBL-0028-184) Other Titles - Houses of the natives, Bay of Islands Extended Title - From: Dumont D'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie ... 1838 - 1842. Paris, Gide, 1846. Atlas pittoresque. Pl. 184. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Gide Editeur Paris [embossed] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white, 230 x 335 mm (plate mark), on sheet 290 x 390 mm

Date: 1843 - 1840 - 1841

By: Day & Haghe (Firm)

Reference: B-187-009

Description: Shows a group of Maori at the edge of Lake Taupo, with a long palisade running along the waterfront to the left. Tongariro and Ruapehu mountains are in the distance. Another copy at PUBL-0007-331 Other Titles - Ruapehu Extended Title - From "Travels in New Zealand", by Ernest Dieffenbach. London, John Murray, 1843. Volume 1, opposite page 331. Merrett joined Dieffenbach and his party at Taupo. See the journal of Ensign Best, edited by N Taylor. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 130 x 192 mm (sight)

Date: 1843 - 1849 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-465-009

Description: Red-coated soldiers (probably from the 58th Regiment) in the foreground, groups of Maori men and women, canoes drawn up on the shore of the Hutt River, the palisades of the pa in the background, with tall trees beyond. Several Maori are carrying bundles on their backs, possibly of potatoes, since Brees mentions 'extensive potato grounds' around the pa in his text on p.30 of Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand The date of the original is likely to be 1845, since the soldiers shown did not occupy the Hutt Valley until 1845. The pa was located on the east bank of the river close to the site of the present Melling Bridge. Brees mentions that Makaenuku Pa was built by Porirua Maori after 1840. Other Titles - Makahinuku Pa Extended Title - In: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand Plate 18, No 54; also reproduced in Brees' Guide and description of the panorama of New Zealand (London, 1849) See also at E-070-007 (digitised). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 130 x 200 mm (plate mark)

Date: 1851

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: E-144-067

Description: The carved and ornamented prow of a waka. On a hill behind on the left is a pa. To the right, a waka with two sails is drawn up at a beach Partially reproduced in Grey, George. Polynesian mythology ... (London, 1855), frontispiece. The pa is placed differently, and Mount Egmont rises behind the view Inscriptions: bottom left - Drawn and lithographed by Cuthbert Clarke, Auckland 1851 Compare almost identical views in Auckland Museum with title Head of a canoe, and in the Alexander Turnbull Library's Balneavis Album, with title E tararo tene waka [Head of a canoe], reference number E-952-f-121 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of crayon and body-colour drawing

Date: 1849

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: E-143-029

Description: Part of a pa by a river in the foreground, with Maori and Europeans bringing a waka down to the river from the left. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of crayon and wash drawing