Places

Date: 1844 - 1889 - 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Allan, Joseph Stuart, 1861-1930; Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: B-110-036-3

Description: A group of Maori seated around a large structure containing preserved food for a feast. Several whare are in the background One of four proof lithographs on a single sheet measuring 447 x 285 mm. Derived from a lithograph by G. F. Angas in The New Zealanders illustrated (London, 1847), plate 36, 'A feast a Mata-ta'. Angas' lithograph is based on a drawing by Joseph Merrett Other Titles - A feast at Mata-ta, Matata Inscriptions: Recto - top left: 2nd proof, 18-11-89 [in blue pencil] Printed [in pencil] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 170 x 99 mm

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: A-020-033

Description: The left half of the page shows a wooden dwelling house thatched with raupo with a fence, a gateway, and an unusually long ridgepole. Below it is the end of another house (a cooking house) made of wood with a tekoteko (carved figurehead) at the top of its ridgepole. Both buildings are at Tu Kaitohe or Kaitoke Pa, Te Wherowhero's pa at the foot of Taupiri Mountain, Waikato The right side of the page shows at the top, two figures seated opposite one another and crying (the tangi or crying match). Below they are 'pressing noses' (hongi) and at the bottom of the page, they are hugging. Beside them is a sketch of a pole, three feet long, with white feathers 'wound into scarlet things'. The groups of people are copied from drawings by J. J. Merrett. Other Titles - Hongi. Pataka Quantity: 8 drawing(s) (on folded sheet). Physical Description: Pencil, 334 x 207 mm

Date: 1844 - 1847

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

By: Giles, John West, 1801-1870; Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: PUBL-0014-36

Description: Top image shows large groups of Maori seated on the ground around a drying scaffold hung with food (possibly dried shark and pigs). The bottom image shows a circle of Maori watching a salutation ceremony where one warrior is about to throw a spear. There is a high patuka or storehouse in the centre, for the storage of seeds, and the edge of the pa is marked by a row of high fencing posts at the right. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844; however he did not visit Matata. This is a copy of a drawing by J. J. Merrett Other Titles - Merrett, Joseph Jenner Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured, 374 x 310 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-216-f-059

Description: Groups of Maori on the foreshore engaged in various activities, including cooking in a large pot to the right. Two war canoes on the lake. Mokoia in the middle distance. The view is framed with trees to left and right, including cabbage trees on the right, alongside a food storage platform Strongly similar to a drawing in the Grey Album Add. MS. 19953, f. 118, no. 288 'The Lake of Rotorua', although in the latter there are just four people on the foreshore, there are three canoes shown, and the framing trees are larger Other Titles - Mokoia Island Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Title in ink in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 167 x 249 mm