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Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

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

Reference: E-281-q-010

Description: Looking south-west along the coastline towards the hills north of Moeraki, past the mouth of the Kakanui River. In the foreground are a tent, and a raupo shelter, a man standing and a group of three men seated Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash, 58 x 200 mm.

Date: 1849

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

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

Reference: C-103-006-4

Description: A night scene showing two men seated in front of a camp fire, a temporary wooden shelter behind them Extended Title - From: Mantell, W B D. Scrapbook, p. 6 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 80 x 110 mm

Date: 1852

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

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

Reference: C-103-090-2

Description: A tent pitched in a valley. At a right angle, the outline of a range of hills Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 259 x 180 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

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

Reference: E-281-q-002

Description: Looking towards hills, with a camp site and two men alongside a small cabbage tree in the foreground, bush in the fold of the hills behind Inscriptions: Recto - top left - No. 1. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 61 x 119 mm

Date: 1852

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

Reference: A-049-029

Description: Shows tent and campfire in foreground Other Titles - Waiwera Inscriptions: "Those jiggyjaggy things are sweet williams all prickles..." (continued on verso) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 111 x 146 mm Transfers: Transferred from Mantell family papers (MS-Papers 0083-343, letter to Gideon Mantell, Dunedin, 27 June 1852).

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

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

Reference: E-334-062

Description: Surveyor Alfred Wills seated with his back to the artist, at the door of his tent. He appears to be eating a cooked bird. Otupua was close to the site of modern Timaru Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 18; Recto - beneath image - and to the right: Mr Wills on 18 Oct 1848 at Otupua. His dinner trapped & brkfast for 19th Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 70 x 100 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

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

Reference: E-334-074

Description: Profiles of hill shapes around Oamaru, Kakanui coast. A drawing of Mantell's camp, a tent amongst flax bushes on the coast at the mouth of the Kakanui River. Other Titles - River Kaukanui. Camp at Kakaunui Oct 26 [1848] Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 26 Quantity: 4 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848 - 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

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

Reference: E-281-q-028

Description: Two tents sheltered by a cliff, a broad plain beyond and several men busy around the tents Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 104 x 91 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852; Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910; Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-333-026/027

Description: Sketch on the right shows a view across a plain with small round ponds from a camp fire beneath overhanging rocks, 'Commissioner's Cave, Ototara. The sketch on the left shows a man with a broad-brimmed hat, and patched trousers, leaning against the walls of a small wooden shelter, with a table and cooking pots on the ground beside him. It appears to be a copy of F. E. Nairn's 'Rakitawine of Te Hakataramea, Waitaki' (original sketch located at C-103-080-1) The view from the rock shelter identified as 'Commissioner's Cave' Ototara from Alfred Wills' drawing 'View from Commissioner's Cave, Ototara, looking southwest. Three of the curious round ponds on the plain. [Oct/Nov, 1848]. The Commissioner was likely to be Mantell, Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 'Copied' [possibly from drawings by Alfred Wills and Francis Nairn] Quantity: 2 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on page, 135 x 230 mm.

Date: 1848

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

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

Reference: C-103-053-5

Description: Looking south along the beach line near Timaru towards a figure on the beach at a small campsite with a boat drawn up on shore. Mantell's three Maori porters are walking above the beach on flat land studded with cabbage trees towards a low hill Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen sketch 102 x 116 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

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

Reference: E-334-059

Description: Image on right shows a shoreline camp site with a small boat, captioned Timaru 1st Tauamotu. On the left are diary notes for Oct 15, 16, 17, mainly describing weather, but also mentioning travelling companions Malmanche, Horomona and Te Rehe Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 15, 16, 17 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 60 x 105 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

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

Reference: E-334-052

Description: Top sketch, a panorama crossing the width of the page, looks north along the beach around the mouth of the Ashburton River at Hakatere, with the tents of the survey camp to the left. It is dated 3 October. Bottom left, 4 October, a night view in the camp with men seated around the fire, tents amongst flax bushes. Bottom right, a scene in a kainga, with a food storage platform to the right, a palisade, a rough hut and the boots and packs of the survey party outside. Probably October 7, south of Hakatere Probably Tarawata's kaik, as described in E-334-053 Inscriptions: Recto - Top of page: Oct 3. 4 & 7 Quantity: 3 drawing(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Pencil, 60 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

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

Reference: E-334-054

Description: View looking north along the beachline, with two food storage platforms and a low building to the right, a food bundle on a stick supported by a pyramid of logs, tents or raupo whare to the left and a European man standing, holding a flag, while a Maori woman crouches behind him, attending to cooking or holding a kete. The word Tipare is inscribed lower left. Mantell's party was close to Hakatere, at the mouth of the Ashburton River, or a little further south, on 7 October. The same kaik, probably Tarawata's, is also shown at E-334-052 and E-334-053 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Oct 7. [Written across the top of the page, in ink. Image is drawn upside-down on page. Also inscribed in pencil, lower left. The word Tipare is in pencil, lower left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

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

Reference: E-334-070

Description: Four sketches in the Waitaki area in October 1848. Top left: 'Paretamokai' (an uncertain placename) showing a man sitting at the right in front of a tent above a valley. Top centre right: 'A Korari hoe on a razeed taia' (a Maori hoe). Top right: 'Camp at Otaitai' showing a camp site near the foot of a cliff; Bottom left 'Damn specimens. There's grub. M.Malmanche ascending ye wata & finds three wooden turnips' shows Mr Malmanche gesturing indignantly in favour of cooking turnips, rather than keeping them as specimens. Behind Malmanche is a seated Maori man with Malmanche again at the top of a ladder, raiding a whata, or food storage platform. There is a large whare alongside. Bottom right: Valley of the Waitaki Tuesday Oct 25, an extensive view of a valley and hills with a small fenced enclosure to the left, possibly a grave site. The place name Otaitai appears to be no longer in use. It is likely to be just north of the Waitaki River. Other Titles - A Korari hoe on a razeed taia. [Oct 1848] Other Titles - Camp at Otaitai Friday [October 1848] Other Titles - Damn specimens: There's grub! M. Malmanche ascends ye Wata and finds 3 wooden turnips. Waitaki Monday Oct 23? Other Titles - Valley of the Waitaki, Tuesday Oct 25 [1848] Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 22 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)