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Date: [before 1885]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-45-44

Description: View of the Maori village of Ohinemutu looking towards Lake Rotorua. There are a large number of people near the foreshore looking towards the photographer. St Faith's Church has not yet been erected. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril in 1870s or early 1880s St Faith's church building was consecrated on 15 Mar 1885 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 26.2 x 35.5 cm

Date: 11 May-16 Jun 1847

By: Gisborne, William, 1825-1898

Reference: qMS-0844

Description: Gisborne and Petre went by sea to Coromandel and then by land, first up to Thames and travelling up the river, passing through pa, including Opita, then to Matamata, Tauranga, Rotorua, Lake Tarawera and Lake Rotomahana. They returned to Auckland by way of the Waikato River, passing through Maungatautari and Waipa. The journal includes interesting descriptions of Maori life and Gisborne meet the Revs Brown, Spencer, Chapman and Ashville [sic] and various prominent Maori. Variations in title - Binder's title: Gisborne journal The journal is loose in a cover with a typescript and index in an envelope at the back Quantity: 1 volume(s) (38 pages, 30 leaves)). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript (32 cm, blue linen)

Date: [before 1885]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-27

Description: View looking over the village of Ohinemutu towards Lake Rotorua and Mokoia Island (on left). In the foreground is a fenced off area under cultivation. St Faith's Church has not yet been erected. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril in 1870s St Faith's church building was consecrated on 15 Mar 1885 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 23 x 25.8 cm

Date: 1899

By: Bold, Mabel E L, active 1899

Reference: G-649

Description: View from Rotorua looking south-east to Ohinemutu with Mokoia Island to the left. Several canoes in the foreground. Until 1986, catalogued as being by Mabel E Bell. However, during reframing in 1986, an inscription on the verso: Mabel E.L.Bold was discovered. Inscriptions: Verso - Mabel E.L.Bold Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas in original gold frame 190 x 690 mm (sight)

Date: 1893

By: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927

Reference: A-176-010

Description: A photograph of a chromolithographic print. Shows the Maori settlement at Ohinemutu and St Faith's Church Extended Title - Illustrating story: The way of our grandfathers Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph, black and white, 5.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1849

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; Johnson, John (Dr), 1794-1848

Reference: E-144-029-1

Description: A view from the lower slopes above Rotorua Lake, looking across to Mokoia Island and Ohinemutu, with the palisades of a pa in the foreground. Reproduced as an engraving in Grey, George. Polynesian mythology (London, 1855) opp. p 297 The pā is likely to be Pahirau, the pā of Hikairo Other Titles - Ohinemutu Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of crayon and wash drawing,

Date: 1850

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: E-144-022

Description: A view across Rotorua Lake towards Mokoia Island, with Ohinemutu in the foreground. Steam rises along the Ohinemutu Peninsula Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of wash drawing,

Date: 1849

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: E-144-028

Description: Looking down from a hill along the lake frontage at Rotorua, towards Ohinemutu in the middle distance. The palisades of a pa are on the hill in the right foreground. Three Maori men look down on the view. Two tents are on the shore below. Other Titles - Puhirau Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title in crayon. Bottom right, additional title in ink in another hand Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of crayon and body-colour drawing

Date: 1884

From: Harper, Laura 1833-1887 :Laura Harper's sketchbook. No. 10 1884

Reference: E-376-020

Description: Ohinemutu viewed from above, showing the Maori Pa and the Anglican Church at the lake's edge Other Titles - Ohinemutu Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Maori Pa Rotorua Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 140 x 230 mm. (page size)

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

By: James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Hawley & Company

Reference: PA1-q-251

Description: Album of photographs taken by James Valentine & Sons, circa 1880s-1900s. Most of the images have a caption printed into the photograph, and many also have a hand-written caption beneath. At some point many of the photographs have been removed from their slots, and others have been placed in the wrong slot so that the subject and caption on the photograph does not match with the caption below. Places are listed above. There are five photographs of Maori, three of women, two of chiefs. The names given are difficult to identify, having complicated spelling, and the captions on photographs have faded in some cases. They include "Maori wahine Ngareti"; "Maori chief Hoera Watene"; "Maori chiefs Panapa Tenihotiti and Topopoki" and "Maori wahine Huihana?". One photograph, of Atiamuri, has the name "Hawley" as photographer. Other Titles - "Valentine & Sons. Photographs" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with greenish cover, entitled "Valentine & Sons. Photographs" in gold lettering; 39 x 31 cm

Date: 1880 - 1910

Reference: A-246-004

Description: Ohinemutu viewed from the land, looking out to Lake Rotorua Newspaper illustration. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 140 x 225 mm

Date: 1863 - 1986 - 1873

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: C-117-047-a

Description: Shows a view of the lake from the Maori settlement at Ohinemutu. Title and imprint from copyright form. Reproduction of watercolour Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 470 x 570 mm

Date: 1863 - 1986 - 1873

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: C-117-047

Description: Shows a view of the lake from the Maori settlement at Ohinemutu. Title and imprint from copyright form. Reproduction of watercolour Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 470 x 570 mm

Date: 1912

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1890-1929]

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1912-01-cover

Description: Shows two illustrations by Thomas Ryan, one of a Maori warrior dancing and brandishing a taiaha, and the other of a view of Ohinemutu and Lake Rotorua. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on brochure, 156 x 214 mm.

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866; Johnson, John (Dr), 1794-1848; Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: A-048-046

Description: View looking down onto Lake Rotorua, with Mokoia in the distance. The Ohinemutu peninsula is on the right with steam rising from amongst the Maori whare. In the foreground is a whare on the left, a palisade and several Maori figures. Probably copied from a drawing by John Johnson or a copy of that drawing by Cuthbert Clarke. See Cuthbert Clarke;s 'Ohinemotu. From an outline by Dr Johnson [1849]' a conte drawing in the British Library (Add. MS 19954, folio 29, no. 31) of which the Turnbull holds a photograph. The same image was reproduced as a wood engraving in Sir George Grey's 'Polynesian Mythology' (London, 1855). Title from inscription Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash with chinese white 175 x 252 mm Transfers: For attribution and provenance see A-048-027..

Date: 1885

From: [Doubleday, William and John], fl 1880s :[Twenty-three watercolours of New Zealand and the Pacific. 1884-1885]

Reference: C-150-022

Description: Shows a view of several houses in the pa at Ohinemutu, with wooden fencing made from slim branches. Two figures are seated on the ground in striped cloaks in the centre foreground. A tall pou stands erect in the enclosure at the right. In the background is Lake Rotorua. This watercolour was painted by either William or and John Doubleday in 1885, while they were travelling around the world - on doctor's orders to cure lung infections. Other Titles - Tako, Takou Pa; Rotorua Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 123 x 370 mm.

Date: [Between 1885 and 1900]

From: Lilburn, Douglas Gordon, 1915-2001: Collection

Reference: G-258-2

Description: Shows the area of the Ohinemutu Pa. St Faith's Church (the one dedicated in 1885) is shown with its square tower, but not the later (1914) building. In the right foreground is a hot pool used for cooking. Two woven blankets are hanging on a line in the lower foreground. Dated after 1885, the date when this St Faith's Church building was dedicated. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on board, 176 x 303 mm (sight) Transfers: Three photographs transferred to Photographic Archive.. Processing information: Description and title updated July 2024 in line with current practice: date moved from title to date field, artist name moved to end of title (Katrina Tamaira)