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Poi dancers and 21st birthday presents

Date: 1964-1966

From: Meikle, Pauline :Slides of New Zealand scenes and photograph of British Solomon Islands

Reference: PA12-6124

Description: Standard Four school children lined up performing a poi dance. Same group of children performing stick games. Views of Kaiteretere, Golden Bay. Dawson Falls, Mount Egmont. Coast and beach, Kaupokanui, Taranaki. Crater Lake, chair lift, Taranaki Falls, and building, Mount Ruapehu. Pauline Meikle's 21st birthday presents, 1964. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies.

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Creator unknown: Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand 1934

Date: between 1934 and 1935

Reference: PAColl-6619

Description: 46 images of the Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand in 1934-5 including: nine of his visit to Rotorua including Maori kapa haka; one of veterans at the bridge of remembrance in Christchurch; one of him opening Tekapo bridge and another of the party at Tekapo House hotel; one of him in a crowd outside the railway station in Hokitika; one of him inspecting a parade of nurses; one of him visiting a traditional whare; two of him as a jockey at a race meeting; three of the felling of a kauri tree; seven of his stay at Longbeach sheep station, Ashburton County; and two of him at the Waitangi memorial. Photographer unidentified but possibly Hall Raine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019066 to 019078, 019082 to 019107, 019111, 019113, and 059505 to 059509 Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

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Royal tour 1901

Date: 1901

Reference: PA1-f-064

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. Scenes include the arrival of the royal visitors at various places, by ship, Royal carriages, and Royal train; ceremonies and rites welcoming them; views of triumphal arches erected for the tour, including Marble Arch (Queen Street, Auckland), the Auckland Harbour Board Arch, the Citizen's Arch (Wellesley Street), and the Government Arch (City of Wellington). Other ceremonies are associated with the presentation of war-medals; the laying of foundation stones (Victoria College for Maori Girls, Parnell, Auckland), the Wellington Town Hall, and the Queens Memorial Statue in Dunedin); and the march past and inspection of various guards, troops and veterans. One photograph shows Lord Ranfurly in Auckland, reading the proclamation extending the boundaries of the colony to include the Cook Islands (p 16). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Visit of Duke of Cornwall and York (King George V.). 1901. Maoris - Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch". Hand-printed in ink on slip attached to front cover.

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Evans, I :Photographs of Rotorua and Nelson

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Evans, I, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-1519

Description: Photographs taken on holiday in New Zealand by woman identified as I Evans. Comprises photographs of men, women and children from Tuhourangi and Arawa iwi, many in traditional costume; Model Village at Whakarewarewa; Ohinemutu Pa; Lake Rotorua; Guide Ruth, Ana Hato; Guide Rangi; Wairakei geysers; Rotomahana; buried forest; Arapuni; Hongi's Track; Lake Taupo; Wellington Harbour from Ngaio; tobacco growing at Riwaka; apple packing shed at Redwood's Valley, Nelson; Devils Boots, Collingwood; Government Buildings, Wellington; Wainui House, Nelson; houseboat, Whanganui River; self-portraity of photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 151 x 202 mm Provenance: Purchase, 2009

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Scenes in New Zealand Album

Date: ca 1909

From: Berwick, S W (Mr) :Albums of New Zealand scenes and coastal towns

Reference: PA1-o-834

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Thiem, Benno, fl 1910 :New Zealand scenic photographs

Date: ca 1930s

By: Thiem, Benno, -1934

Reference: PAColl-7974

Description: New Zealand scenes taken by Ben Thiem of Hokitika ca 1930s. Comprises scenes in the thermal district, Maori portraits, mountains and glaciers, pastoral scenes, rivers and lakes, and bush. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchased from John Arnold, book and antique dealer, February 2004

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Ross, Malcolm, 1862-1930 :At Wairoa [Welcome to Lord Ranfurly]

Date: [March 1904]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-q-634-03

Description: Wairoa, showing the Maori welcome to Lord Ranfurly and party, on their visit in March 1904. Photograph taken by Malcolm Ross. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - At Wairoa "Through Tuhoe land", by Malcolm Ross (Christchurch Press, 1904), says of this occasion: "Once over the bar the steamer swerves into the broad river, and glides onward round a bend to the township of Wairoa. As we near the wharf the well-known strains of a Maori song of welcome to the Governor break the stillness, and a moving line of gesticulating Maoris, men and women, greet the Governor. As the steamer proceeds they advance along the bank in a line, keeping up the strange gesticulations of the haka and the weird melody of their chant in a minor key." Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 154 x 201 mm mounted on album page 255 x 287 mm

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[Ephemera of quarto size relating to Maori. 1940s]

Date: 1940 - 1949

Reference: Eph-B-MAORI-1940s

Description: Includes: 1942: Ko te Mana Motuhake. Paki o Matariki. Ngaruawahia, 11 Pepuere 1942. 1943: New Zealand Centennial 1840-1940. Tihee! Mauri ora! Official opening ceremonies of the third and fourth Te Arawa Centennial memorials, Tawakeheimoa whare wananga at Te Awahou, and Tamatekapua, national whare runanga at Ohinemutu, by His Excellency the Governor-General Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Cyril Newall. 24 March 1943. [Order of service] 1945: Maori Postal Sunday School Movement Church Service Programme 1945. Quantity: 100 Programme(s) (estimated selection from around 1000). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying below 350 mm.

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Grant, F J (Mr), fl 1981 :Photographs of the tour of the Prince of Wales in 1920 and Ne...

Date: [1903-1920]

By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0362

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Reception to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburg...

Date: 1954

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12777-07-04

Description: Includes words of Te Arawa and Ngāti Tūwharetoa haka; pōwhiri; Posture dance by Ngāti Tūwharetoa; Poi dance by Te Arawa; Mataatua tribes action dance; Taihauauru Poi Aotea, Whakapapa Kawai Rangatira, He Ngeri; Haka Waka Atua; Ngati Porou tribe women's haka of welcome; men's ceremonial haka. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet, 38 pages, 220 x 144 mm. Processing information: Combined into ATL-Group-00753, October 2022. Previous reference: Eph-A-ROYAL-1954-01.

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Performing the poi at the opening of the Ngati Raukawa meeting house, Otaki

Date: 14 Mar 1936

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-f-005-379

Description: Older women performing the poi at the opening of the Ngati Raukawa meeting house in Otaki, 14 March, 1936. Leader: Kahurangi Te Ao. From left to right: unknown, Henrietta Gray, Hopaea Te Hana, Huaki Hohepua, Tohipare Te Waru, Purewa Gilbert, unknown, unknown, Matemarua King. Photograph taken by G L Adkin. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - 379. Team of older women doing the poi dance. 14.3.36 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 5.4 x 10.5 cm, on album page

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Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Maori group, including women with poi, at the model vil...

Date: [between 1923-1928]

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-805

Description: Panoramic photograph, handcoloured, (colourist unidentified) of a Maori group, including a row of women with poi, at the model village in Whakarewarewa. Image taken between 1923-1928 by Robert Percy Moore of Wellington. The meeting house is in the centre and the pataka (storehouse) is on the right. Other Titles - Poi dancers, Rotorua, NZ Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Poi dancers, Rotorua, NZ; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - R P Moore 80 Manners St Wellington All rights reserved Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) handcoloured. Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 9.3 x 95.6 cm Provenance: No provenance information available. Possibly part of a larger collection

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[Programmes and other ephemera relating to Maori concerts, performance competitions, fe...

Date: 1940 - 1969

Reference: Eph-B-MAORI-CONCERT-1940/1969

Description: Includes: 1953: University of Auckland. Department of Extension Studies. Coronation Cultural Competitions, Turangawaewae Marae Ngaruawahia. Entry form 1964: 1964 Maori Arts Festival, being a section of the Wellington Festival of Arts 1964 and conducted by the Wellington Competitions Society (Inc). Town Hall Wellington, 22 August 1964. Programme 1965: Wills National Maori Concert Party championships. Town Hall Tauranga, 5 June 1965. Programme / list of competing teams (Presumably sponsored by W D & H O Wills and with advertising inside the front page for Players cigarettes) 1968: Church College of New Zealand. Maori Culture Group (Church of Jesus Christ of latter-Day Saints). "The coming of the Maori" in song and action. 1968 New Zealand tour [9 November - 16 December 1968]. Programme Maori nativity pageant. "Te Rongopai - in the beginning was the Word". A Christmas pageant with a mass choir of 200, written and directed by Richard Campion. Wellington Town Hall, 1-3 December [1968]. Flyer only Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and programmes, sizes varying up to 350 mm. Processing information: 'Maori entertainment by Queen Victoria School for Maori Girls and St Stephen's Boys' School. Souvenir programme [with words and translations. ca 1956]': Combined in to Te Whaiti family ATL-Group-00753, October 2022. Now at Library reference MS-Papers-12777-07.

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[Programmes and other ephemera relating to Maori concerts, performance competitions, fe...

Date: 1970 - 1989

Reference: Eph-B-MAORI-CONCERT-1970/1989

Description: Includes: 1970: New Zealand Maori Theatre world tour 1970. Special preview performances prior to Expo. Wellington St James Theatre 27-28 June; Christchurch Majestic Theatre 30 June - 1 July; Hamilton Founders Theatre 2-3 July [1970]. Programme (2 copies) New Zealand Maori Theatre world tour 1970, in association with Edgley and Dawe Attractions (With "Porgy & Bess", Isobel & Peter Cowan, "The golden lover", Inia Te Wiata, Margaret Kimura, George Henare. Produced by Dick Johnstone). Promotional booklet 1975: Wellington Competitions Society. Maori Choral Contest; Maori Cultural Contest. Adjudicators Mr Harry Brusey and Mrs Iritana Tawhiwhirangi; Mrs Ngoi Pewhairangi, Mrs Rangi Dewes, Mr Apirana Mahuika, Mrs Hans Whaanga-Mita, Mr Koro Dewes, Mr Nepia Mahuika, Mrs Tutu Eruera, Rev Taki Marsden. Programme (2 copies) 1976: “Face to face”. Devised by Frank Davis; produced by Lorraine Agar (With Robin Healey, Susan Crarer, Allan Millar, Mark Neville, John Cowan, Morven Simons, Sharon Lawton). [Rotorua, March 1976] Programme / catalogue booklet. Wellington Competitions Society Incorporated. Maori Choral Contest; Maori Cultural Contest. Wellington Town Hall, 28 August 1976. Programme. 1979: Tu Tangata '79 featuring in concert the Howard Morrison Quartet (with Tina Cross, The Senators, The Morrisons, Howard Morrison, Toni Williams, Noel Kingi, Gerry Merito and Eddie Low). Souvenir booklet Tu Tangata '79 featuring the return of the Howard Morrison Quartet (With Howard Morrison, Wi Wharekura, Noel Kingi, Gerry Merito, The Morrisons, Toni Williams, The Senators, Tina Cross, Waikato-Maniapoto Concert Party). 18 August 1979 at the Kimiora Hall Turangawaewae. Souvenir programme 1980: Liberation concert. Maranga Mai plus Bastion Point film, Reggae bands, Hangi. All welcome. St Andrews Church Hall, 30 The Terrace. Sunday September 28 [1980]. B&W photocopy only 1983: Wellington Maori competitions, featuring top groups Maraeroa, Putahi, Ngati Poneke, Mawai Hakona, Nga Karere and Whanaunga Tanga, also guest artists. Opera House, 13th Aug [1983]. Photocopied flyer only 1984: Programme for St Andrews Church Festival, June 1984. A view from the younger generation. [With Te Ohu Whakaari, Apirana Taylor, Himiona Grace, Briar Smith, Maringikura Campbell]. Programme / flyer stapled to photocopies of reviews Ahurangi; Hori & Hemi. Plus Patea Maori Club. Wellington Opera House, Aug 10th [1984]. Photocopied flyer with flet pen additions. 1985: Young Maoris in performance. Te Ranga Whakaruruhau; the New Zealand Maori Performers Trust. Press release Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and programmes, sizes varying up to 350 mm.

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Maori reception to T.R.H. Duke and Duchess of York, Rotorua, New Zealand, 28.2.1927

Date: 28th February 1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2218-F

Description: Panoramic view looking over Arawa Park where Maori women are performing a poi dance for the Duke and Duchess of York. Other groups of Maori performers are waiting on a field in front of a crowded grandstand far left, with a smaller grandstand to the right. Members of a military band are seated on the left of steps decorated with palm fronds leading up to the grandstand. Three large marquees are seen across the centre right of the image. There is a row of press photographers standing up on the edge of the main grandstand. Crowds of spectators line the field, with police at intervals. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Source of descriptive information - Title and date from similar images taken by R P Moore Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - 15 15 15 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 131.4 cm

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Maori reception to T.R.H. Duke and Duchess of York, Rotorua, New Zealand, 28.2.1927

Date: 28th February 1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2219-F

Description: Panoramic view looking over Arawa Park where Maori women are performing a poi dance for the Duke and Duchess of York. Other groups of Maori performers are waiting on a field in front of a crowded grandstand far left, with a smaller grandstand to the right. Members of a military band are seated on the left of steps decorated with palm fronds leading up to the grandstand. Three large marquees are seen across the centre right of the image. There is a row of press photographers standing up on the edge of the main grandstand. Crowds of spectators line the field, with police at intervals. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Source of descriptive information - Title and date from similar images taken by R P Moore Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - 14 14 14 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 130.0 cm

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Maori reception to T.R.H. Duke and Duchess of York, Rotorua, New Zealand

Date: 1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2100B-F

Description: Panoramic view of the reception to the Duke and Duchess of York at Arawa Park, Rotorua in 1927, taken by Robert Percy Moore, of Wellington. It shows a crowded grandstand centre left, a smaller grandstand on the right, more onlookers standing on the far left. Poi dancers in rows in front of the main grandstand, two large marquees far right. Crowds around the edge of a grassed area. A cameraman with a movie camera is visible standing amongst the crowd centre far left. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Maori reception to T.R.H. Duke & Duchess of York Rotorua. N.Z. 1927. No. 2; Marginal notes on negative - 12 12 12 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.8 x 131.7 cm

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Poi dancers entertaining T.R.H. Duke and Duchess of York, Rotorua, New Zealand

Date: 28 February 1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2106-F

Description: Panoramic view of the reception to the Duke and Duchess of York at Arawa Park, Rotorua in 1927, taken by Robert Percy Moore, of Wellington. It shows groups of Maori poi dancers in a large field in front of a crowded grandstand which is on the far left. Spectators also surround the field. Maori kaumatua and kuia seated on the ground centre foreground. Two large marquees on the right. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Poi dancers entertaining T.R.H. Duke & Duchess of York, Rotorua. New Zealand. 28.2.27; Marginal notes on negative - 3 3 3 3 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 25.2 x 134.2 cm

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Maori reception to T.R.H. Duke and Duchess of York, Rotorua, New Zealand

Date: 1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2104-F

Description: Panoramic view of the reception to the Duke and Duchess of York at Arawa Park, Rotorua in 1927, taken by Robert Percy Moore, of Wellington. It shows a crowded grandstand centre left with groups of sailors, some with instruments seated to left and right of steps leading up to the grandstand. The steps are lined with palm fronds. A smaller grandstand is on the right, and there are more onlookers standing in the foreground on the left and behind a paling fence on the far side of the field. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.8 x 115.0 cm

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