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Date: 1843

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

Reference: E-106-f-047-2

Description: Te Puni standing, with full facial moko, clad in a dogskin cloak and holding a taiaha in his right hand. Behind him is Petone Pa, and a flagpole with the New Zealand Company flag on the right. The western Hutt hills are in the background. After the drawing by Charles Heaphy. See lithograph entitled `Epuni, or greedy... '. Engraver unknown. Accompanying text reads: Annexed is a portrait of Epemi, a chief of Port Nicholson, in North Island. He is tattooed, wears the native robe, and carries a long spear; but most of the chiefs are familiar with the musket and their strength is counted not by men but by muskets. Other Titles - Te Puni Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 2 II, p 247 [1843 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 115 x 70 mm

Date: 1852 - 1856

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

Reference: E-455-f-020-05

Description: A half-length frontal portrait of Honiana Te Puni of Petone. He is white bearded and shown dressed in a flax cloak Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & wash, 110 x 70 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: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-274-033

Description: Copies of Charles Heaphy's two lithographs of Port Nicholson chiefs in 1839 or 1840, first published in 1845. Wharepouri is on the left, pointing to his left with a mere in his right hand, with a background of Wellington Harbour and the ship Tory. Te Puni is on the right, holding a taiaha in his right hand, with a background of Petone Pa with a White Ensign flag flying, the Western Hills and part of the Harbour A copy of Heaphy's lithograph 'The two head chiefs of Port Nicholson. Warepori or 'Dark house' and Epuni or 'Greedy', published as Plate 1 in E. J. Wakefield's Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London, 1845) Other Titles - Warepori or dark house, Epuni or greedy, the two head chiefs of Port Nicholson Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Two lithographs, on sheet 225 x 285 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

Date: 1839

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

Reference: PUBL-0011-02-2

Description: Te Puni standing, with full facial moko, clad in a dogskin cloak and holding a taiaha in his right hand. Behind him is Wellington Harbour with two Maori by the shore to the left, and Petone Pa, a canoe and a flagpole with the New Zealand Company flag on the right. The western Hutt hills are in the background. Accompanying text reads: These two chiefs sold the site of the present Wellington Settlement to Colonel Wakefield, the Principal Agent of the New Zealand Company, in September 1839... Epuni is the uncle of Warepori. Under the same unfavourable circumstances as his nephew, he has nobly deserved the name of "a true gentleman." He still lives at the village of Pitone, loved and respected by the English inhabitants of all ranks. These portraits were drawn at the time of the purchase in 1839... the village of Pitone and the flag-staff at the foot of which Colonel Wakefield took formal possession, appear in the back-ground. Other Titles - Te Puni Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 247 x 172 mm on sheet 350 x 544 mm

Date: 1860

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-005-015

Description: Shows the interior of a whare, with a white-bearded Maori man sitting on the ground beside a fire, a small dog asleep on the ground beside him. A taiaha leans on the wall at the left, and on the far wall hangs a kete and a musket. The man wears a dogskin cloak and an earring. Through the open doorway can be seen a canoe drawn up on the shore of Wellington Harbour, and a group of three figures (two kneeling, apparently blowing on a fire below a cauldron) close to a gap in the fence of wooden spiked poles. A hill, probably the Western Hills near Petone, is visible in the background The title of this work on acquisition, assigned by the seller, was Maori in whare at Pipitea Pa. However the man depicted bears a strong resemblance to Honiana Te Puni (compare Barraud's lithograph 'Te Puni' published 1877 as plate II in New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive) and the oil paintings held by the Wellington City Council and National Library of Australia. The dogskin cloak being worn, with a lighter patch on the left front opening, is also very like the cloak shown in Barraud's other portraits of Te Puni. If the subject is Te Puni, the whare in which he is seated is more likely to be at Petone Pa than at Pipitea Pa. The sea and hills behind are also positioned as if from a view from of Petone Pa, not those near Pipitea Pa. Other Titles - [Maori in whare at Pipitea Pa. Original title] Epuni Petone Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. D. Barraud N.Z. 1860 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 235 x 343 mm (mounted)

Date: 23 January 1940

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-5482-004

Description: Shows a group of mourners at the grave of Honiana Te Puni, Petone, after the Hon W Nash had laid a wreath in memory of the late chief. Photograph taken by a staff member of the Evening Post on 23 January 1940. Inscriptions: Verso - top left - Newsclipping attached: Scene at the grave of Honiana Te Puni, at Petone, after the Hon. W Nash had laid a wreath in memory of the late chief of the Ngatiawa as a prelude to yesterday's ceremonies. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: Name in scope note amended following information from family member, 9 May 2023.

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: A-286-016

Description: Head and shoulders profile portrait of Honiana te Puni, paramount chief of Wellington district and signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi Although there are multiple copies of most of Isaac Coates' portraits, this is the only known portrait by Coates of Te Puni. See: Minson, Marian. Art as evidence : the enigma of the Nelson Maori portraits. In: Turnbull Library Record, v.23, no.1, May 1990, p.47-67 for further information. See D.N.Z.B. (1990) for biographical information about Te Puni. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, indelible purple pencil & gum arabic 257 x 192 mm Provenance: Part of a house sale in Boston, purchased by New York dealer, then by Auckland dealer. Transfers: One of 19 such portraits (A-282-1 to 19).

Date: 1877

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877

By: Duvergier, active 1870s

Reference: PUBL-0016-03

Description: Shows Te Puni's monument in the Maori cemetery in Petone. Two whare and some palisades can be seen beyond. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 90 x 131 mm.

Date: 1847

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-015

Description: View through wind-shaped trees from the northwest side of Petone Flat, looking towards the eastern hills. On the right is the palisade of Te Puni's pa with the roof of one whare rising above the fence-line and a single high-roofed house on the plain further into the valley on the left. There is a lone male figure, carrying a long spear standing in the middle ground, between two trees. A very similar drawing reproduced in Louis Ward's "Early Wellington" (Plate 25) is titled "Te Puni's new pa (Te Tatau-o-te-po) behind the Pito-one Pa" and shows the pa as close to the beach Other Titles - Pa of Honiana Te Puni, Petone, Te Tatau o te Po Inscriptions: Backing board recto - beneath image - Title and date Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 117 x 183 mm