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Date: [Circa 1890s to 1910s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-299

Description: Photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, circa 1890s-1900s. Most of the scenes are taken on a river boat trip up the Whanganui River, and include two of groups of Maori; one showing two nuns in full habit, walking behind three young Maori girls who are wearing ankle-length dresses. Some of the river scenes show stretches of the river, including several `on the rapids', and one of a group of men in a waka. Others are of the various villages passed on the trip, including one of the river boat tied up at Jerusalem, with a cart drawn by two horses alongside. One view shows the mouth of the Whanganui River at Patea, and from there the images are of the New Plymouth area, including Mount Taranaki (then Mount Egmont), the Sugar Loaves, the monument to Wiremu Tamati on the hill at Corbett Park (Oakura), and Opunake. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, impressed title `Photographs'; McIntosh XV, 15 765-814; 16 x 22 cm

Date: 1845

By: Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898

Reference: C-173-002

Description: Shows a lone gravestone with a small gated surround, high atop a hill above Nelson, with the Boulder Bank in view below. The gravestone is inscribed 'Sacred to the memory of Henry A Bell, aged 19'. Arrow (Fifeshire) Rock is set just out of view of the painting, to the lower left. Various ships and boats can be seen in the Nelson Haven area of Tasman Bay, between the Boulder Bank and the coast. One of the boats is a waka with two sails Bell's brother Henry (called by his middle name, Angelo), went to Nelson about 1841 as secretary to Arthur Wakefield. He died of typhoid within a year of arriving. Like Angelo, Francis was usually called by his middle name, Dillon Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 235 x 315 mm Provenance: Previously purchased from a Parisian dealer, and surfacing at a a French provincial auction. Possibly originally part of the collection of Francis Dillon Bell. Transfers: The Library owns several other works from the same provenance, by William Fox and Charles Heaphy purchased 2006 and 2014 (Reference numbers C-025-025, C-013-007, C-173-001 and A-465-015).

Date: between 1860 and 1890

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/4-017135-G

Description: Maori wooden memorial known as Nga Rangi-o-Rehua or Te Koanga-o-rehua, made from a waka, and carved to mark the grave of Te Mahutu. Photograph taken in Pipiriki by William James Harding, between 1856 and 1886. This monument was made from a waka, cut in two. According to Sir Walter Buller, it was erected at Pipiriki, on the Whanganui River, about the year 1824. Circa 1865, it was brought down the river to a cemetery in Putiki. Some time later Major Kemp presented the monument to Sir Walter Buller, where it stood at his home on Lake Papaitonga, near Levin. When Buller died it was given to the Dominion Museum. (Information from `Maori Art' by W J Phillipps, page 39. Held at Alexander Turnbull Library 572.9931 PHI 1946) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [Between 1870 and 1879]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/1-000021-G

Description: Maori wooden memorial known as Nga Rangi-o-Rehua or Te Koanga-o-rehua, made from a waka, and carved to mark the grave of Te Mahutu. Photograph taken in Pipiriki by William James Harding, between 1856 and 1886. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches.