Places

Date: 1844 - 1890

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Keesing, G S (Mr), active 1960s

Reference: D-001-009-a

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha on 11 May 1844. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. This copy lacks a printed inscription on the recto of copy D-001-009 "Presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890" Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph in two tints 220 x 840 mm on sheet 285 x 890 mm Provenance: Donation: G S Keesing

Date: 1844 - 1890 - 1969

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Heritage Fine Prints; Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: D-001-023

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A 1969 photomechanical reproduction, taken from a lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. Print no 142 of an edition of 1000 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of tinted lithograph in two colours 205 x 794 mm (image) on sheet 293 x 876 mm

Date: 1844

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

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-029

Description: Various Maori artifacts, including a carved shark's tooth, a tiki, a dagger and a club, a flute, a greenstone earring and a drawing of a woman's lip and chin tattoo. Other Titles - Pounamu (greenstone), he kumete (a bowl) Quantity: 7 drawing(s) (on recto). 1 drawing(s) (on verso). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 230 x 313 mm

Date: 1842 - 1844

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: A-275-003

Description: A whare and trees in the left foreground, a canoe being rowed by three men on the lake in the centre and the White Terraces in the background, with clouds of steam above them. Probably one of the earliest depictions of the Terraces On the verso is a poem in the artist's hand, to his wife, Rangi Kawau (Rangi Koa), with marginal notes on the Maori words, in the hand of Edward Shortland. Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Title in ink in the artist's hand Compare two other version of this drawing by Merrett. One dating from 1842 is in the British Library's Grey Albums (Add. Ms 19953 f. 99, pl. 268) an ink and pencil drawing entitled 'Rotomahana, one of the Rotorua Lakes with a view of the hot springs and the ascent to it by natural steps of salyx'; also the Turnbull Library's A-089-008, an ink and wash sketch, almost identical to this one. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 160 x 249 mm

Date: 1844-1863

By: Wesleyan Missionary Society

Reference: qMS-2178

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (16 pages). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1844-1852

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: MS-2412

Description: Letter from Rev E G Marsh (1845) containing excerpts of correspondence from Williams (1844) re Bishop Selwyn's organization of Waimate Mission station and proposed transfer of college to Auckland; Sampson Kempthorne; John Ballance, CMS Committee, to Lord Straith critical of land claims; Lord Chichester's letter to Williams (1852); four pamphlets concerning land claims, 1845-1851 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (7 pieces). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter (24cm, ½ blue morocco, blue buckram case) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, K A Webster estate, London, 1970

Date: 1844

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

Reference: A-020-029-1

Description: Shows a mako or shark tooth earring or pendant, a tiki (ornament worn suspended round the neck), a greenstone or pounamu earring, a flute, a woman's moko (lip and chin tattoo), a wooden dagger and a tukituki (type of mere or club). The shark's tooth, small tiki and earring are all original sketches for details in the lithograph 'New Zealand ornaments and decorations', being plate 39 of G. F. Angas' The New Zealanders illustrated (London, McLean, 1847). All three objects are made of South Island pounamu (jade or greenstone). Both the tiki and the shark's tooth were 'drawn from offerings on a wahi tapu, consecrated by the parents to a deceased child, as being the most precious articles they possessed; although exposed amidst the ruins of a deserted pah, so strict is the law of tapu that no one dare touch these valuable relics'. Other Titles - He tiki Quantity: 7 drawing(s) (on one sheet). Physical Description: Pencil sketches on sheet 233 x 132 mm

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

Reference: A-020-032

Description: An upper drawing showing a low wharenui, seen from the front. A lower drawing showing a passageway or entrance through palisades, with buildings and hills beyond. Both drawings are probably scenes at Rangihaeata's Taupo Pa, Plimmerton The drawing on the verso of this sheet (A-020-033-1) is of Taupo Pa, Plimmerton Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 333 x 231 mm

Date: 1844, [ca 1972]

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-145

Description: Contains photocopy of deed of purchase for Rangitoto Island (original held in Auckland Public Library), photocopies of undated magazine articles on Rev A G Purchas, and of the Albert barracks. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1844 - 1845

By: Tiffen, Henry Stokes, 1816-1896; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; New Zealand Company

Reference: MapColl-832at/1844-1845/Acc.855

Description: Chart of most of North Island (excluding North of North Island) highlighting detail of Wellington, Wairarapa, Wanganui District, Manukau and the Hauraki Gulf. East Cape and inland East Coast show very little or no detail. Insets of Port Nicholson, Kawhia, Tauranga, Waitemata, Manukau and Whangaroa harbours. Extended Title - Compiled by Tiffen from the Government and New Zealand Company's surveys and reconnaisances, from sketches by Messrs. Symonds, D. Bett, R. Harrison, - Richards, J. Thomas, - Murant, and from Native information, 1844-5. I am Chas. Brees, principal surveyor, New Zealand Company. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale 1:800,000, 84 x 64 cm.

Date: [1844]

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

Reference: A-020-005

Description: On the left, a watercolour of the point of a taiaha (spear) with notes about war costume of Maori. There is also a drawing of a huia feather and a note about a momument at Ngauranga to the memory of Te Wharepouri. On the right, 'slave preparing food' at Ngauranga Pa, shows a crouching woman inside a hut, preparing small round objects, possibly potatoes, from a basket in front of her. The taiaha is the original sketch for a lithograph In: Angas, G F, The New Zealanders illustrated, (London, 1847), Plate 58, No 7, p 130, where it is described as E Hani. The slave woman is the original drawing for a view in the upper right corner of Plate 59, no. 2 ' Domestic sketches' Other Titles - Ngauranga Nga Hauranga. Huia. War costume Quantity: 1 drawing(s). 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil 182 x 100 mm; Watercolour 175 x 107 mm

Date: 1844 - 1888 - 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; Kirkwood, Henry William, 1854-1925

Reference: B-110-021-4

Description: Shows the carved decorated tomb (wahi tapu) of the Ngati Rahiri chief Huriwhenua, set within its own fence and with the palisades of a pa for protection. The carved war canoe of Huriwhenua is set upright into the earth. The pa was close to Te Awaiti, Tory Channel, Marlborough Angas visited New Zealand in 1844. This is a redrawing of his lithograph 'Tomb of Huriwhenua' plate 23 in his The New Zealanders illustrated (London, 1847). The copyist is probably H. W. Kirkwood One of four lithographs on one sheet, all copies of work by Angas and probably all copied by Kirkwood. The centre of the sheet is inscribed in blue pencil 'Printed 2500 copies' Other Titles - Tomb of Huriwhenua, a late chief of the Nga ti toa tribe, Queen Charlotte Sound. Ngatitoa Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 145 x 216 mm

Date: 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-114-028

Description: Three Maori women, E Rua seated on the left, wrapped in a cloak, E Pari standing, also in a cloak and E Hoki standing on the right, wrapped in a pink blanket and wearing a blue necklace. Original for lithograph by J W Giles in The New Zealanders Illustrated. Plate 13 p 34 (London 1847) Other Titles - Ngati Toa Cook Strait Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 332 x 243 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

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

Reference: A-020-023

Description: Shows part of a pa in the foreground, with a large pataka on the left, a wharenui on the right, palisades and rolling hills leading down to the lake in the middle distance. A faintly-drawn in hill in the distance is marked as Motutaiko Mountain, possibly Motutaiko Island Other Titles - Motutaiko. Te Hiwiherri Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 222 x 333 mm

Date: 1847 - 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: C-170-002

Description: Shows 14 views of Maori domestic life, including tools, clothing and household receptacles. Accompanying page of text (C-170-002-1) lists the numbered items as follows: 1. Mode of fishing with nets on Lake Taupo: the fish, which are still small, are caught in a seine with very fine meshes, and a pole about 20 feet long, with tufts of grass fastened at the end, to drive the fish into the net. 2. A fishing weir, or eel pah, on the river Mokau. 3. Wooden fish-hook. 4. Fish-hook generally in use, made of wood, with a layer of pawa [i.e. paua], or pearl shell (Haliotis), and the hook formed of human bone. A feather of the kivi kivi (Apteryx Australis) is fastened at the extremity. The lines are of flax and, as these hooks dangle astern of the canoes, the glittering appearance of the pawa attracts the fish. 5. Kupenga, or eel trap, formed of twigs, from Mokau. 6. Ko, a wooden spade, for rooting up ferns, and preparing the ground for plantations. 7. A pestle for beating flax, formed of volcanic trap. 8. Wooden flute, one of the orifices of which is tattooed to resemble the lips of a woman. 9. Bark bucket, and calabashes for holding water: the orifices of these latter are also tattooed in a similar manner. 10. Ornamented flax basket for household purposes. 11. E kumeti, ancient wooden bowl for kumeras, from the deserted pah of Otawhao, near Waipa, eight feet in circumference. 12. and 13. Flax sandals from Otago, in the Southern Island. 14. Portrait of an aged slave woman, at Pouketouto, in the interior, beyond Mokau Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Other Titles - and Extended Title - From: Angas, George French. The New Zealanders illustrated (London; Thomas M'Lean No. 26 Haymarket, 1847). Plate 57 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) (14 images on one page). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 455 x 310 mm, on sheet 545 x 365 mm Provenance: Purchase: Cordy's antique and art auction, Auckland, 21 May 2013; lot 665

Date: 1844 - 1847

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Hawkins, Frances Louisa, -1884; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-215-005

Description: Part of a lithograph showing a Maori woman and her daughter in front of a palisade and part of a whare at Porirua Pa, north of Wellington. The edges, including the printed title, have been cropped off One of two mutilated lithographs by Giles after drawings by Angas for the latter's New Zealanders illustrated, London, 1867. Plate 20 (E Pori E Rangi Wawa) and plate 49 (Typical portraits of the New Zealanders), the latter located at A-215-006 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured lithograph, 248 x 213 mm Provenance: Had previously been in the collection of K. A. Webster

Date: 1844

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

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-006

Description: The left half of the page shows Maori men fishing with nets from a large canoe in Lake Taupo and the right side shows a huge patuna or eel wier on the Mokau River with a person crouched beside it. Original sketches for lithographs in: Angas, G F "New Zealanders Illustrated", Plate LV, Nos. 1 & 2, p 124 Quantity: 2 drawing(s) (on one sheet). Physical Description: Pencil 93 x 153 mm and 95 x 158 mm

Date: 1844-1845 (198-?)

By: Hamilton, William John Warburton, 1825-1883

Reference: MS-Papers-2302

Description: Diary describes his travels and activities in the North Island, New Zealand Company affairs, arrival and departure of ships, official duties, including receipt and despatch of mail; and comments on native affairs, including detailed account of skirmishes at Kororareka during March 1845 Source of title - Supplied title Hamilton arrived in New Zealand in in 1842 as private secretary to Governor FitzRoy, stationed at Auckland. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (27 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript (photocopy) Finding Aids: A six page index to personal names, ships and places is included.