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Date: 1840

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-003-6

Description: View looking up the Whanganui River from the Putiki (south) side with snow-clad Mount Ruapehu in the distance. In the foreground is Putiki Pa with the wharenui (meeting house) standing separately, surrounded by a palisade on the right. Other smaller buildings are more distant, surrounded by palisades. Two waka (canoes) are drawn up by the shore. Other Titles - Wharenui Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title and date Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 81 x 208 mm

Date: 1937 to 1940

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

Reference: PA1-o-013

Description: "Along N.Z. highways" Second series. Includes maps (hand-drawn), plans, and black & white photographs by G L Adkin, covering trips around the lower North Island between 1937 and 1940. Trip on 18 April 1937 around Miramar Peninsula, includes views of the Massey Memorial, Wellington Harbour, Scots College, Rongotai Airport, and a schooner near the Wellington Heads. From 30 March to 1st April 1938, a round trip, Levin, Wanganui, Whanganui River, Turakina, Hunterville, Levin, including views of the Manawatu River, Foxton water tower, farm land at Turakina, a sketch-map of Turakina & vicinity and of Putiki Pa near Wanganui, Turakina River, Kaitoke Lake, war memorial tower on Durie Hill (Wanganui), Wanganui City from various vantge points, Moutoa Gardens, statue of Major Kemp, views up the Whanganui River as far as the turn-off to Raetihi at Makirikiri, further views of Wanganui including Virginia Lake, scenes of Putiki Pa, Turakina to Hunterville via Turakina Valley. 30th March 1939, a trip from Palmerston North to Ashhurst via the Manawatu Gorge. 16 December 1939 and 6 March 1940, trips from Levin to Wellington via the new Paekakariki to Pukerua Bay coastal highway (opened 4 November 1939), including views of the new highway, and images of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition at Miramar, Wellington. A plan of the layout of the various pavillions, views of pavillions including exterior and interior views of the Maori Court. Adkin lists names of Maori carvers involved in creating the Maori Court, including Pine Taiapa of Tikitiki, Iotua Tuarua of Rarotonga, and Hoani Mete Kingi of Wanganui.

Date: 1848

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-068

Description: A view from across the Whanganui River of the Rutland Stockade, the houses at its base, the gunboat stockade at the river's edge further west, a Maori canoe in the river and in the foreground, three seated Maori men, one in European clothes, the other two in Maori clothes, identified as Horobabera, Eruera and Taiepa no [from] Taupo. Taiepa is holding a taiaha and there are two small whare closer to the river bank. The foreground scene is likely to be in Putiki Pa. The right-hand section of a panorama with A-292-067 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 262 x 346 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: [ca 1860]

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Trafford, Benjamin William Rawson, 1824?-1891

Reference: D-040-003

Description: Shows a scene on the Whanganui River. Shakespeare Cliff is prominent on the right, and Mount Ruapehu is visible in the distance. The Wanganui settlement is nestled into the hills in the middle ground, and the Rutland and York stockades are visible on the hill above the town. In the foreground is a group of Māori, comprising six adults or young adults, and one child, who would appear to be Pākehā. They are grouped as half standing, half being seated. There is much evidence of European clothing being worn by almost all the figures, with a woman on the right in full European dress complete with hat. The child in the group stands close to her and is possibly her own child, though his complexion is pale. The Māori man on the left has full facial tā moko, and holds the reins of a horse, which stands grazing. The horse would appear to belong to the woman in European dress, as it carries a side-saddle. The other man in the scene is dressed wearing a blanket and bare feet, and holds a kete, staff and eeling pot. Beyond the group can be seen the pallisades of Putiki Pā, beside which graze a half a dozen cattle. A number of vessels can be seen on the river, including a schooner and a double-sailed waka. The artist of this work is uncertain, after close comparison against works by other artists including John Alexander Gilfillan, Richard Aldworth Oliver, and Charles Decimus Barraud was undertaken. Benjamin Rawson Trafford has also been suggested as the artist, but no other work in watercolours by him is known for stylistic comparison. He was in Wanganui between ca 1847 and 1863 and had a Māori wife and child, possibly the subjects of this watercolour. He may also have been the earliest owner of the work and was the step-ancestor of the English vendor Other Titles - Whanganui. Benjamin William Rawson Trafford Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, pencil and Chinese white on paper, 482 x 713 mm Provenance: Prior to auction, in a private collection, England by descent from a step-ancestor, Benjamin Rawson Trafford, an early settler in Whanganui, to Lady Rosalind Bodington Processing information: Description updated 26 September 2023 following information provided by a staff member, as part of reparative description work.