Places

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Smith, Elder & Company; Day & Haghe (Firm)

Reference: A-015-016

Description: Shows small storehouse on two stout poles about 10 feet high, with a notched pole used as a ladder between them. Beneath the house are bags of food, and a Maori pounds stick on a block. Another stands at bottom of ladder. In the background two figures sit by a cooking pot outside a whare, and a dog roams in front of them. At right is a fence with carved posts. The tallest post depicts a carved humanoid figure smoking a pipe. Cf original watercolour shelved at A-146-009. Extended Title - From: Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand by E. J. Wakefield. Plate 11 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, two-tone 261 x 178 mm

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-146-009

Description: Shows the ornately carved frontage of a storehouse on two poles, with a notched climbing pole for access. In the left background sit a Maori man and women with a cooking pot and a dog in front of a large whare. There is a wooden enclosure fence with carved posts at the right and behind, including one human figurehead, a pipe in his mouth. There are woven bags of food possibly kumara stacked beneath the storehouse. Mount Egmont, its height and symmetry exaggerated, is in the background Lithograph, entitled "Wata or Provision house at Otumatua" (neg. 1/2-150220-F), was made by an unknown lithographer, after this watercolour, and included as an illustration in Wakefield, E. J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London, 1845). A watercolour by Heaphy in the Hocken Library, Dunedin, is titled by the artist 'Gateway at Otumatia Pa'. The correct form of the name is not known Other Titles - Wata or provision house at Otumatua. Pa. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy; Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - [New Zealand Company stamp]: Mar 23 1842 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchased with other New Zealand Company material by Alexander Turnbull, Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

Date: [1864?]

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-043

Description: Shows a tall carved gateway on the left, with a group of Maori centre and a pataka (storehouse) on the right; Ruapehu and Tongariro beyond lake in distance. The two children in the foreground are holding kete (flax kits) and there is a dog beneath the carved gateway. There is a flagpole in front of the pataka. There is a watercolour from a similar view, also by Fox, in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia (Ref. no. NK 564). A European traveller is shown in the Australian watercolour, the groups of Maori are different, there is a cooking fire in the centre foreground, flax baskets in front of the pataka, and the pataka is facing the viewer. A photograph of the Australian watercolour is in Drawings & Prints, under the same title as the Alexander Turnbull Library's watercolour. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 234 x 340 mm