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Date: 1849 - 1851

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

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

Reference: C-103-015-3

Description: A night scene with a fire burning near a pataka. A lake and hills are to the right. Muhunoa is alongside the 38 m high knoll Ohau and this is likely to be the hill formation shown in the background Other Titles - Muhunoa Inscriptions: 'Waiwiri from Muhunea' inscribed on the album page, now discarded. The inscription can be seen in the photographic copy of the watercolour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 130 x 85 mm

Date: [ca 1869]-1997

By: Arnold, Rollo Davis, 1926-1998

Reference: 99-257

Description: Note books containing research notes from various sources including archives, manuscripts, newspapers, serials and monographs compiled in the course of research for `The Farthest promised land', `New Zealand's burning', `Settler Kaponga' and articles and talks on Australia-New Zealand relations and migration, ca 1900-1910. These note books are accompanied by card indexes providing subject access to their contents; drafts, correspondence and working papers relating to the above monographs and articles; papers relating to children's literature including drafts of published and unpublished children's novels by Arnold including `Bracken block' and `The Freedom of Ariki'; papers relating to education, in particular teachers in the Wellington Education Board district in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Other Titles - The farthest promised land Other Titles - New Zealand's burning Other Titles - Settler Kaponga Other Titles - Bracken block Other Titles - The Freedom of Ariki Rollo Davis Arnold was an educationalist and historian Quantity: 27 box(es). 9 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs Betty Arnold, Wellington, 1999

Date: 1890

From: Wallace, John Howard 1816-1891 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0108-9

Description: Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, a few pamplets, and notes by Wallace, including some re the 1890 jubilee celebrations and copy of the New Zealand Jubilee Hymn composed by Herbert B Bridge and published by the Evening Press Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1845

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-079-003

Description: Redcoats and Maori in the foreground amongst low scrub, including flax and toetoe. A cleared hill (right) and bush-clad hill in the background.To the left in the middle distance can be seen the palisades of Kapotai Pa, alongside a stream at Waikare Inlet (Bay of Islands) surrounded by soldiers with smoke and flames visible. To the right is a small European house, with a fenced garden, with soldiers in formation in front of it, ordnance, and further soldiers moving up the hill behind it, with puffs of gunfire smoke coming from the hill. Other Titles - Kapotai Pa Inscriptions: No inscriptions on work. Title taken from mat, now discarded. Other mats (from box A-079) which have been retained show a title in ink in the hand of Cyprian Bridge. The mat must also have included the artist's signature, since the catalogue card (from the 1960s?) states that the work is signed and includes square brackets around the date, but not around the title. There is no signature on the work itself Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 176 x 225 mm

Date: 1847

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-059

Description: A group of Maori men around a camp fire, outside the entrance to a house, on their way from Wanganui to New Plymouth. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 163 x 228 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-196-021

Description: A flat area alongside the river with tall trees (including cabbage trees) in the background, flax to the right. Two or three thatched houses with groups seated and standing outside and a larger group in or alongside canoes drawn up at the river's edge to the left. Another group seated around a fire. Related copies: Original for the lithograph by J W Giles in Angas, 'Savage Life and Scenes in Aust. and N.Z.' (London, 1847), Vol. II p.28. The lithograph has the title On the Waikato at Kapou. Kopou (or Kapou) are no longer names in use, but Angas is known to have been travelling along the Waikato from near modern Mercer on 28 September and to have reached the area near Lake Waikare and the small Lake Kopuera at Rangiriri by 2 October. The area shown is likely to be close to Lake Kopuera and Rangiriri. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 153 x 220 mm Provenance: Previously in the collection of Captain A W F Fuller, London.

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: 1845 - 1849

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-015

Description: The elaborately carved stern of a large waka, hauled up on a beach with cliffs behind to the left. In front of the canoe sits a Maori man in front of a small fire. He holds a pipe in his left hand and is draped in a blanket or woven flax garment. He has short hair and full facial moko. A gourd sits on the ground on the far side of the fire, and behind the man is a large pile of flax kete, with a cloak draped across the top The same canoe stern, but reversed, appears as part of an illustration to A. S. Thomson's 'The story of New Zealand' (London, 1859), Vol. 2 p.102 'Kororareka in 1849 from a sketch by Colonel Bridge' The basis for a wood engraving in the Illustrated London news, 4 Oct 1851, p. 404, engraved by O. W. Brierly 'Maori chief and carved stern of a New Zealand canoe'. The background cliffs have been changed, as has the position of the Maori man, but the canoe details are identical Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 367 x 253 mm Transfers: Removed from the Bridge / Williams sketchbook (E-320-f possibly from page 15). The paper is similar to other drawings by Williams taken from this sketchbook, and the appearance of its left margin suggests it has been removed from a bound volume. In addition, the original binding of the album (located in a folder in box A-079) shows an offset image of this view on one page..

Date: 1845

From: Williams, John, d 1905 :Maori war sketches [by John Williams, Cyprian Bridge and other artists] 1845-1850

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: E-320-f-009

Description: British redcoats in several rowboats, rowing upstream. Also soldiers on the banks of the river, walking uphill towards the palisades of the pa, visible in the distance. Mangroves are growing at the water's edge in the foreground. There are two European-style houses close to the pa. Rolling wooded hills in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Sketch by John Williams [in ink, in the hand of Johannes Andersen, Turnbull Librarian at the time of acquisition of this work, 1934]; Mount recto - bottom right - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on wove paper 187 x 260 mm, glued into sketchbook