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Jackson, Vernon Leonard, fl 1938-1946 : Manuscript relating to Te Rauparaha
Date: 1946
By: Jackson, Vernon Leonard, active 1938-1946
Reference: MS-Papers-2764
Description: Manuscript relating to Te Rauparaha with a photograph of Te Rauparaha's whare at Aotea taken by Jackson in 1910. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Ms, photograph
H T Whatahoro Jury - Notebook with cosmological information
Date: 1889 - 1906
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B023
Description: Contains notes about the occupation of land near Greytown by the Ngati Muretu hapu, and a draft letter complaining about land sold by someone that does not own it; contains cosmological information, including whakapapa of various deities and a detailed account of the life of Maui Tikitiki; also contains notes about practices and traditions associated with childbirth and the instruction of children in martial and practical arts; there are also notes about practices within whare wananga and the conditions placed on students There is a narrative about Ngatoroirangi of the Te Arawa canoe, and a warning about incorrect whakapapa and the use of repetitive names to inflate a whakapapa; there is also a discussion of the relevance of traditional knowledge in contemporary society There is a narrative dictated by Te Wera Hauraki and Tarahau in 1837 about Ngati Awa, recited by Te Matorohanga to Te Whatahoro at a later date; the narrative describes the arrival of Ngati Awa at Whakatane and their conflicts with the resident tangata whenua, which includes a detailed physical description of these people; there is a narrative about the migration of Toi and Whatonga to New Zealand and their subsequent settlement There is a narrative of 19th century conflicts involving Waikato and Taranaki tribes and subsequent events, whakapapa (including some taken from the Journal of the Polynesian Society), karakia associated with various practices and activities (including notes about the performance of karakia by tohunga), and waiata (including notes from Sir George Grey's `Nga Moteatea' There is a narrative about the birth of Tuteremoana of the Ngai Tara tribe, with related waiata; a list of place-names and pa sites in the Wellington area and some notes about conflicts involving Wairarapa hapu; there are also notes about the proceedings of a whakapapa hui held at Papawai in 1906, including an address by H P Tunuiarangi Other - 5 loose pages are inserted in the beginning. One page is titled `Te Ngakiatotara', another 2 pages are titled `Kereitaone' and the other is a list of names from Ngati Awa Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph (32 cm; maroon boards)
H T Whatahoro Jury - Whakapapa and note book
Date: 1895
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B016
Description: Contains notes about places associated with Kupe in Wellington and Wairarapa, whakapapa, financial records by Tuta Nihoniho and miscellaneous notes about land management There is a lengthy account of the destruction of the Te Arawa canoe by Raumati, and subsequent events, and a related narrative about Raumati's son, Ngarue and his activites and family There are haka and waiata, a list of pa in Taranaki and related iwi, notes about the origins and settlements of various iwi, notes about greenstone, and a narrative about conflicts between Te Ati Awa and Waikato, and the subsequent migration of Te Ati Awa along with Ngati Raukawa and Ngati Toa to the Wellington area There are notes about the arrival of Pakeha in New Zealand before Captain Cook, and a note in Elsdon Best's hand that states that much of the information in the manuscript was extracted from the Journal of the Polynesian Society and other published sources Also contains the names of several muskets belonging to the Ngati Toa which were named in a waiata composed by the wife of Te Pukoro, a Ngati Tama/ Ati Awa chief killed in the Wairarapa in the late 1820s. This lament was composed and sung at Waikanae to rouse the Ngati Toa to seek revenge for the deaths of the Ngati Tama and Ati Awa in the Wairarapa. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: ½ maroon, black boards, 24 cm., vol. numbered 9
Correspondence and notes
Date: 1896-1915
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: 80-115-04A/04C
Description: Includes Notes on Maori origins, by Mr Ferguson of Hokianga; Time and a generation, by Hare Hongi; Ruatapu, Whiro and Toi, by Hare Hongi; He korero mo Wairangi raua ko tana wahine ko Parawhete, by Matenga Hori; He karakia patu ngarara, ana kai i te maara kumara, and other notes, by Hare Hongi; On the survivals of ancient customs in Oceania; Ngati Kahungunu materials from T W Downes; Maori kitchen middens, by Taylor White; Ko te korero mo nga pa e toru i te puke, by Tarakawa Also contains a brief essay about Te Rauparaha of the Ngati Toa. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Waiata fragments of narrative and proverbs
Date: Before 1854
From: Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898: Maori manuscripts
Reference: MSY-2108
Description: Contains various waiata and moteatea etc. Many of these relate to the Ngati Toa, Te Ati Awa and Ngati Raukawa, with many others relating to Te Arawa and Waikato. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (photocopy) Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.
Knocks, John Anthony 1827-1889 : Reminiscences of early Wellington and Mana Island
Date: 1832-1840
By: Knocks, John Anthony, 1827-1889
Reference: MS-Papers-4385
Description: Describes life as a young boy on Mana Island, with its first settlers (the Bell family) and later on Kapiti Island. The deeds of Te Rauparaha and Rangihaeata figure prominently. Source of title - First page Quantity: 1 folder(s) (13 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902 : Letters
Date: 1846-1869
By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Reference: MS-Papers-1038
Description: Comprises 31 letters from Collinson to members of his family, written from Wellington, Wanganui, and Auckland with impressions of the Maori, particularly Te Rauparaha and Rangihaeata, account of 1848 earthquake, and references to Thomas Arnold (1846-1850). Also 6 letters from others, including Thomas Arnold to Collinson and other documents and letters in Maori (1847-1869). Language - Some letters in Maori Relationship complexity - See also Collinson's 'Seven years service...' at fMS-050-051, and his sketches held in the Drawings and Prints Collection. Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss (some photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available. Some letters include sketches
Elsdon Best - Miscellaneous notes
Date: [ca 1893-1895]
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-037
Description: Includes correspondence and notes to S P Smith; lists of Maori informants; copies of questions sent to various informants; notes on incidents involving Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Toa and Te Ati Awa, including their migrations to Wellington, and on place names in the greater Wellington area; rough indexes to notes; waiata and haka; whakapapa of Ngati Raukawa, Mahu and Taewa and Ngati Ira and Whanganui notes from his 1895 field trip. Includes a long letter from Kerehoma Tuwhawhakia of Kaiwhaiki to 1895 with waiata by Naapea Nganawheuru. Contains waiata from the Ngati Toa-Raukawa tribes from the middle and late 19th century periods including the haka of Upokoiti, the patere of Manomano and the story of Kaihamu, great grandfather of Toa Rangatira. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed listing available in inventory.
Waiata and traditions / Various writers
Date: ?-1854
From: Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898: Maori manuscripts
Reference: MSY-2086
Description: Mss in Grey's, Te Rangikahehe's and others' writing. Mainly poems. Includes an oreore (kaioraora) or chant to incite, probably by Topeora, to induce Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata to seek revenge for some transgression - relates to events in the Horowhenua. Also includes a slightly different version of the haka "Ka Mate" from "Ki ki ki, Ka ka ka". Quantity: 1 volume(s) (40 leaves, numbered 239-329). Physical Description: Mss (photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Brees, Samuel Charles 1810-1865 :Porirua Harbour and Parramatta whaling station in Novr...
Date: 1843
By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865
Reference: B-051-004
Description: Shows and names Taupo Bay (i.e. Plimmerton) and the entrance from the sea. Thom's whaling station in the background, Maori pa at Plimmerton, man on horse and Maori burial ground, in foreground Detached from: Wakefield, E J ; Illustration to Adventure in N Z , 1845. Plate XII Other Titles - Paremata Extended Title - From: Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand" by Edward Jerningham Wakefield. (London, 1845). Plate 12. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph 237 x 370 mm
Kapiti Island; notes on its geography, history, and flora and fauna
Date: 1876
Reference: MS-1101
Description: Notes taken by an unidentified person on a visit in April 1876 and based on the notes of John O'Meara, a whaler who leased part of the Waiorua block, Kapiti Island in the 1840s. This supplements a fuller account of the flora and fauna by J Buchanan apparently made on the same visit (NZ Times 5 May 1876) Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (12 leaves). Physical Description: Ms (22 cm; ¼ brown morocco, brown buckram)
Stone monument to Kai Tahu, on the site of Kaiapohi Pa, commemorating those who died in...
Date: 1898 - 1910
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-039108-G
Description: The Tiki, Kaiapoi. Monument erected to commemorate those who died in the attack on Kaiapohia Pa by Te Rauparaha in the 1830s. The monument was erected in 1898 by Canon Stack. This image is a copy negative photographed by Albert Percy Godber from an unidentified publication. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - The Tiki. Kaiapoi Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches
Te Watene Taungatara - History of Ati Awa tribe
Date: 1899
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-181
Description: Volume of history of Te Ati Awa in the 19th century written in 1899 by Te Watene Taungatara of Matarikoriko, Waitara at the request of W H Skinner and S Percy Smith, and copy in Smith's hand. Includes account of wars with Waikato and Ngapuhi at Taranaki, battle of Te Kuititanga, introduction of Christianity, migration of Te Rauparaha to Kapiti. A note says `All of this has been incorporated into [S P Smith's] "The Maori history of the Taranaki coast". Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Rangipito - An account of some of the hekes or migrations of the Taranaki and other tri...
Date: Apr 1887
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-128
Description: Contains an account of the various heke of Ngati Toa and Te Ati Awa to the Kapiti district between 1820 and 1833, with reference to inter-tribal wars and disputes during this period. Rangipito use's the term "Uruuru-purumu" to describe the 19th century musket used by Maori. Other - Hardcopy inventory says "Compare mss version in S P Smith papers 21 (d)" Quantity: 1 folder(s) (40 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript and 2 pages of mss
Hadfield, Octavius, 1814-1904 : Manuscript journal/transcribed by Eric Ramsden
Date: Sep-Dec 1839
By: Hadfield, Octavius, 1814-1904
Reference: qMS-0896
Description: Hadfield describes his journey down the East Coast with the Rev Henry Williams and others in the `Columbine', their arrival at Port Nicholson, visit to Cloudy Bay, the return to Port Nicholson, their walk from Wellington to Porirua and thence to Mana Island where Hadfield first met with Te Rangihaeata. He describes meeting Te Rauparaha at Kapiti, and records his impressions of Waikanae and his first visit to the villages near Otaki. Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 1 volume(s) (23 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) (26 cm, pamphlet)
Inward letters in Maori
Date: 1851-1862
From: McDonnell, Alexander Francis, 1866-1938 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0151-01
Description: Letters from Maori to various colonial officials (mainly Sir George Grey and John White) about various issues, including land issues on the West Coast of the North Island, from Wellington to Wanganui (rent disputes, intertribal disputes, outstanding payments etc); there are also letters about the New Zealand wars, with rumours about Kingitanga activities, a request for compensation because land had been taken by Kingitanga followers, and a request for a war pension for an injury sustained while fighting Hone Heke There are also letters about the erection of a Maori House at Wellington, about arranging meetings, and letters with requests for agricultural implements. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (57 leaves). Physical Description: Mss
Anthony Patete - Haimona Patete
Date: 1995
From: Patete family : Diaries and other papers relating to Haimona Patete
Reference: MS-Papers-5689-013
Description: Biography of Haimona Patete, written for DNZB III; contains footnotes that are not included in the published version. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Te Kairangi, Atanatiu, fl 1870-1913 : Ngati Toa history and whakapapa
Date: 1881
By: Te Kairangi, Atanatiu, active 1870-1913
Reference: Micro-MS-0949
Description: Arranged in four parts this journal explores the history and whakapapa of the Ngati Toa people. It includes detailed whakapapa from Marangaiparoa, son of Toa Rangatira, with a special emphasis on the relationships between Ngati Toa and other closely related Kawhia tribes. The manuscript also details the migration of the Tainui and Te Arawa canoes to Aotearoa, with accompanying karakia; Purakau, or short historical narratives, about numerous Ngati Toa tupuna (ancestors); The migrations of the Ngati Toa tribes from Kawhia to the Kapiti district; And an examination of Maori theological concepts, and includes a discussion about the descent of the Maori people from Adam and Eve. Also records the baptism of various people into the Mormon church at Takapuwahia pa, Porirua, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Publication - This manuscript may be the original source material used by Sir Maui Pomare for the book "Legends of the Maori", 2 volumes [1930]. Other - Microfilmed in 2001 from original in private hands Manuscript journal by Atanatiu Te Kairangi, later acquired by Sir Maui Pomare. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. 0.01 Linear Metres.
[Clayton, Matthew Thomas] 1831-1922 :Barque London. HM[P]S Driver, off Barrett's Hotel,...
Date: 1846
By: Clayton, Matthew Thomas, 1831-1922
Reference: A-389-008
Description: Shows a three-quarter view of the barque "London" and a broadside view of the HM paddle steamer "Driver" in Wellington harbour, with Richard "Dicky" Barrett's pub on the shore, and another building to its left. Thorndon hills are outlined in the background Collection as a whole taken into manuscripts See also similar images at A-238-024 and A-138-062, and A-078-015 (also attributed to Matthew Clayton) Compared with other examples (that on A-173-027 for example), it is reasonable to suggest that the handwriting is James Cowan's Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on back of lined note paper, 104 x 251 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2097.
Kapiti Historical Society Inc : Transcript of an oral history recording with Bernie Morgan
Date: 2012
By: Kapiti Historical Society Inc
Reference: MS-Papers-11320
Description: Folder comprises a handwritten transcription by Bill Lambert of his oral history recording with Bernie Morgan. Transcription records a life history interview with Morgan. Also captured is Morgan's knowledge of local Maori history and lore. Much of the interview is spent covering the exploits of Te Rauparaha and Ngati Toa. Bill Lambert is the Vice President of the Kapiti Historical Society Inc. This oral history and transcription were undertaken on behalf of the Society. Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms (photocopy)