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Date: 1848 - 1846

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Sinclair, Andrew, 1794-1861

Reference: E-143-013

Description: Two drawings of Maori by J J Merrett. Two natural history drawings by Andrew Sinclair. From the top of the page, two watercolours of Auckland sponges, dated 1846; two small portraits of Maori, one of a woman in a pa setting, with a whare and a pataka behind her, one of a couple with another man, near an iron cooking pot. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolours, ink and wash, pencil and wash drawings

Date: [ca 1927]-[ca 1943]

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927; Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947

Reference: PA1-f-124

Description: Album of newspaper and magazine cuttings, photographs, and prints of paintings in colour and black & white, mostly of Maori subjects, with some images of geographically interesting sites in New Zealand, including Mount Tongariro, Lake Waikaremoana, and the Waimangu Crater. The Maori material includes prints of paintings by Goldie, and prints of paintings of Maori by T. Ryan, some of which are copies of works by Goldie. There is a print of a painting by T. Ryan, showing Tomika Te Mutu, painting done from an original sketch by Horatio Gordon Robley. There are many publicity photographs of Maori, showing clothing, particularly cloaks, and showing various activities in Maori pa, including weaving, firelighting, poi dances, and waka poi. Also includes images of Maori waka on the Waikato River; 2 pages of Maori rock carvings, found in a cave shelter on the Kaingaroa Plains in 1926, and one on Maori god-sticks (Pou whakapakoko).

Date: [ca 1885]

From: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-020509-G

Description: Māori woman in a tag cloak, and a pakeha woman, alongside a raupo whare at Karaka Bay, Wellington. The photograph was taken, circa 1885, by Henry Wright. The woman on the right is the photographer's eldest daughter, Amy Elizabeth Wright. "The Maori settlement at Karaka Bay, on the east side of the Miramar Peninsula, was long established when this photograph was taken. Wooden extensions and windows have been added to the traditional raupo construction. Other photographs of this settlement show extensive plantings of cabbages, which were probably sold in the Wellington markets. The lower edge of this print shows damage to the emulsion of the original negative." (Information taken from the caption used in "Darling, I'm home!" display). Exhibited in 'Darling, I'm Home!' exhibition at the National Library of New Zealand, 1 June - 5 July 1999. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001116-G

Description: View taken at Whakarewarewa showing three young Maori women sitting beside a hot pool washing clothes. Children are sitting on the ground behind the women. In the background are wooden houses and whare. A copy made by William Archer Price from a photograph taken by an unknown photograph in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 148. Natural hot water tub. Whakarewarewa William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920 :Negatives of Taranaki

Reference: 1/1-012053-G

Description: Group outside a kauta (Maori cooking house) at Parihaka Pa with buckets and kete. Most of the women wear white feathers in their hair and some hold poi. Four of the women have dark marks on their cheeks. In the foreground a woman is scraping potatoes with a shell. Photograph taken by William Andrew Collis circa 1900. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - At home Parihaka Woman scraping potatoes with a shell 441 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches