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[Levy, Samuel A] :Savage dance of the Pai Marire fanatics. [Illustrated London news, 1865]

Date: 1865

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Levy, Samuel Abraham, active 1840s-1870s

Reference: E-106-f-015-2

Description: Shows a group of Maori attacking Volkner in an area outside his church. Also shows other buildings. An article in the Daily Southern Cross of 4 April 1865, page 4, refers to the display in Auckland of 'three pencilled views of Opotiki - the scene of the recent brutal murder of the Rev Mr C S Volkner ... The sketches have been taken by Mr S A Levy ...' Extended Title - From Illustrated London news, Vol 47, 29 July 1865, page 80, lower half Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 175 x 240 mm

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Price, Thomas Edward, 1863-1928 : Group photograph of cricketers and their friends outs...

Date: [ca 1890-1910]

By: Price, Thomas Edward, 1863-1928

Reference: PA7-50-06

Description: Photograph of cricketers and their friends sitting in front of the pavilion in the Tauranga Domain. Tauranga Cricket Club played Opotiki Cricket Club, the match being won by Opotiki. Photograph taken by Thomas Edward Price in 1890-1910? Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 173 x 277 mm

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Levy, Samuel A :Scene of the murder of the Rev Mr Volkner at Opotiki, New Zealand. [Ill...

Date: 1865

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Levy, Samuel Abraham, active 1840s-1870s

Reference: E-106-f-051-2

Description: A view from across a river of a church, the vicerage and the tree where C S Volkner was hanged. Several canoes in the river in the foreground. Same image at E-372-f-007-1 An article in the Daily Southern Cross of 4 April 1865, page 4, refers to the display in Auckland of 'three pencilled views of Opotiki - the scene of the recent brutal murder of the Rec Mr C S Volkner ... The sketches have been taken by Mr S A Levy ...' Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Volume 47, July 1865, p. 81 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 140 x 240 mm

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Illustrated London news :Captain Levy, Master of the Schooner Eclipse [1865]

Date: 1865

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

Reference: E-372-f-041-1

Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of Captain Morris Levy Captain Levy, was on board his schooner, Eclipse, when Rev. C. D. S. Volkner was captured from it by Pai Marire Maori in 1865. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Volume 47, July 1865, p. 80 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 98 x 78 mm

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Illustrated London news :Captain Levy, Master of the Schooner Eclipse [1865]

Date: 1865

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

Reference: E-106-f-051-1

Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of Captain Morris Levy Captain Levy, was on board his schooner, Eclipse, when Rev. C. D. S. Volkner was captured from it by Pai Marire Maori in 1865. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Volume 47, July 1865, p. 80 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 98 x 80 mm

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[Levy, Samuel A] :Savage dance, Pai Marire - Volkner's death, March 21st, 1865. [Illust...

Date: 1865

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Levy, Samuel Abraham, active 1840s-1870s

Reference: E-372-f-008-1

Description: Shows a group of Maori attacking Volkner in an area outside his church An article in the Daily Southern Cross of 4 April 1865, page 4, refers to the display in Auckland of 'three pencilled views of Opotiki - the scene of the the recent brutal murder of the Rev Mr C S Volkner ... The sketches have been taken by Mr S A Levy ...' Extended Title - From Illustrated London news, Vol 47, 29 July 1865, page 80, lower half Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 185 x 250 mm

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Levy, Samuel A :Scene of the murder of the Rev Mr Volkner at Opotiki, New Zealand. [Ill...

Date: 1865

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Levy, Samuel Abraham, active 1840s-1870s

Reference: E-372-f-041-2

Description: A view from across a river of a church, the vicarage and the tree where c S Volkner was hanged. Several canoes in the river in the foreground. Same engraving at E-372-f-007-1 An article in the Daily Southern Cross of 4 April 1865, page 4, refers to the display in Auckland of 'three pencilled views of Opotiki - the scene of the recent brutal murder of the Rev Mr C S Volkner ... The sketches have been taken by Mr S A Levy...' Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Volume 47, July 1865, p. 81 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 140 x 240 mm

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Creator of Collection Unknown : Photograph of a group of men next to a puriri tree

Date: ca 1880s

By: Macquarters, J, active 1880s

Reference: PAColl-7252

Description: A group of men standing next to a puriri tree in the Opotiki and Waioeka Domain Reserve measuring 18 feet 6 inches in girth. The photographer is given as J Macquarters. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Levy, Samuel A :Capture of the Rev. Mr Volkner on board the Schooner Eclipse, at Levy's...

Date: 1865

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Levy, Samuel Abraham, active 1840s-1870s

Reference: E-106-f-015-1

Description: A view from across a river looking towards a schooner moored on the opposite bank, with Maori boarding the vessel, others approaching by boat and a large crowd on shore. Beyond is a small building marked `Levy's store', other buildings, trees and Volkner's church (later St Stephen the Martyr) at a higher point in the centre. Low hills in the background. An article in the Daily Southern Cross of 4 April 1865, page 4, refers to the display in Auckland of 'three pencilled views of Opotiki - the scene of the recent brutal murder of the Rev Mr C S Volkner ... The sketches have been taken by Mr S A Levy ...' Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Volume 47, July 1865, p. 80 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 150 x 240 mm

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Photographer unknown :Montage of images associated with Carl Sylvius Volkner 1819-1865

Date: 1880 - 1900

Reference: PA3-0367

Description: A card showing images from Opotiki in memory of Carl Sylvius Volker. Comprises: `Rev Volkner's house', `Rev Volkner's church', Memorial gravestone of Rev Volkner, `The Gallows Tree', 'Stern-post of war canoe', Baler, 'Head-gear of war canoe', and photograph of Opotiki Inscriptions: Recto - Memories of a martyr Carl Sylvius Volkner born in Kassel, Germany, trained as a missionary and was one of several missionaries sent to New Zealand by the North German Missionary Society. He arrived in New Zealand August 1849 and initially worked in Taranaki with fellow German Protestant missionaries before offering his services to the Church Missionary Society (1852). He took charge of the CMS mision station at Opotiki (August 1861). Despite hostilities and ignoring warnings he remained at Opotiki until 1865, when he was taken prisoner , charged with being a spy and was taken to a willow tree and hanged. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Photographer unknown :Portrait of Captain Baker

Date: 1860 - 1869

From: Commons, Jeremy Paul Axford, 1933- :Photographs of Tauranga settlers

Reference: PA2-2116

Description: Shows man with beard in uniform Inscriptions: Verso - Partly torn - [Ca]pt Baker, of the [Sta]ffa & Doug[las] Drowned on the Opotiki bar Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Levy, Samuel A :Capture of the Rev. Mr Volkner on board the Schooner Eclipse, at Levy's...

Date: 1865

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Levy, Samuel Abraham, active 1840s-1870s

Reference: E-372-f-007-2

Description: A view from across a river looking towards a schooner moored on the opposite bank, with Maori boarding the vessel, others approaching by boat and a large crowd on shore. Beyond is a small building marked 'Levy's store', other buildings, trees and Volkner's church (later St Stephen the Martyr) at a higher point in the centre. Low hills in the background Bottom left and right corners of this copy trimmed, but image as printed is also cropped at these points An article in the Daily Southern Cross of 4 April 1865, page 4, refers to the display in Auckland of 'three pencilled views of Opotiki - the scene of the recent brutal murder of the Rev Mr C S Volkner ... The sketches have been taken by Mr S A Levy...' Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Volume 47, July 1865, p. 80 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 153 x 232 mm (image slightly trimmed)

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Church of St Stephen the Martyr at Opotiki

Date: ca 1865

Reference: 1/2-061190-F

Description: Church of St Stephen the Martyr at Opotiki, circa 1865. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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Captain Thomas Porter with his Maori auxiliaries outside a stockade and blockhouse

Date: 1870

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 :Collection of photographs

Reference: 1/2-011006-F

Description: Captain Thomas Porter (far right) with his [Ngatai? or possibly Ngai Tai] Maori auxilliaries outside the stockade and blockhouse at either Gisborne or Opotiki, in 1870. This photograph was published in `The Colonial New Zealand Wars' by Tim Ryan and Bill Parham, 1986, page 195. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Photographer unidentified. Previously incorrectly described as being taken by James Cowan. Updated 1 July 2016.

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Levy, Samuel A :Scene of the murder of the Rev. Mr Volkner at Opotiki, New Zealand. [Il...

Date: 1865

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Levy, Samuel Abraham, active 1840s-1870s; Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-372-f-007-1

Description: A view from across a river of a church, the vicarage and the tree where C. S. Volkner was hanged. Several canoes in the river in the foreground. An article in the Daily Southern Cross of 4 April 1865, page 4, refers to the display in Auckland of 'three pencilled views of opotiki - the scene of the recent brutal murder of the Rev Mr C S Volkner ... The sketches have been taken by Mr S A Levy...' Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Volume 47, July 1865, p. 81 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 142 x 235 mm (image slightly trimmed)

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[Levy, Samuel A] :Savage dance, Pai Marire - Volkner's death, March 21st, 1865. Illustr...

Date: 1865

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Levy, Samuel Abraham, active 1840s-1870s

Reference: PUBL-0033-1865-47-080-2

Description: Shows a group of Maori attacking Volkner in an area outside his church and other buildings. An article in the Daily Southern Cross of 4 April 1865, page 4 refers to the display in Auckland of 'three pencilled views of Opotiki - the scene of the recent brutal murder of the Rev Mr C S Volkner ... The sketches have been taken by Mr S A Levy ...' Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 185 x 250 mm

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Row of soldiers in Opotiki in front of the church later known as Saint Stephen the Mart...

Date: 1868

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 :Collection of photographs

By: William Beattie & Company

Reference: PAColl-3033-1-24

Description: Men of the Opotiki Expedition, Patea Rangers and Wanganui Yeomanry Cavalry at Opotiki in front of the church later known as Saint Stephen the Martyr. A Masonic Hotel balcony is on the left. The small building is the powder store. Arthur Parkinson's head is in front of the right hand end of the store. Alfred Parkinson stands in front of the centre of the church tower. Photograph taken by William Beattie and Company in 1868. Source of descriptive information - Identification of volunteers from The colonial New Zealand wars / Tim Ryan, Bill Parham : Wellington, NZ : Grantham House, 2002 Source of descriptive information - Masonic Hotel, and members of the Parkinson family, identified in Parkinson of Opotiki: The history of John P Parkinson and his descendants in the Opotiki District of New Zealand / JCM Cresswell. Auckland : JCM Cresswell, 1982, caption opposite page 16 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 9 x 13.9 cm (postcard)

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Artist unknown :Les sauvages fanatiques de la Nouvelle-Zelande; dessin communique par l...

Date: 1865 - 1866

Reference: A-438-013

Description: Shows a group of Maori attacking Volkner in an area outside his church and other buildings. The Pai Marire flag is flying from a flagpole in the centre. Other Titles - Wild fanatics of New Zealand - sketch sent by Captain W.S. - see page 19 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Black and white engraving on cropped page, 210 x 182 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, in 2010.

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Brett, Henry, 1842-1927 :View of Rev. Volkner's church, Opotiki / H Brett Litho - [Auck...

Date: 1887

By: Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927

Reference: A-109-052

Description: Shows a small Gothic-style church, flanked by two rows of military tents Possibly after an original by James Crowe Richmond Extended Title - Published in: Gudgeon, T W. The Defenders of New Zealand. Possibly from original by J C Richmond (cf. A-048-011; Ngatapa...) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 166 x 242 mm

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Creator unknown: Photograph of a group around the tree from which Reverend Carl Volkner...

Date: [187-?]

Reference: PAColl-8997

Description: Photograph of a group around the willow tree from which Reverend Carl Volkner was hanged, on 2 March 1865, near his church in Opotiki, Bay of Plenty. A meeting house is alongside. Photograph taken circa 1870s by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15 x 10.4 cm. (NOTE: Print is lightly toned and inaccurately retouched)

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