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Maori place-names of New Zealand (vol 14)
Date: [1930-1944]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-15
Description: Contents comprise North, South and Stewart islands of New Zealand with general Maori geographical names and their European and/or corrupted equivalents Arrangement: Notebook no 14 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).
Maori culture, language, history and waiata
Date: 1920
From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0062-45
Description: Waiata from Ngapuhi eg waiata aroha and waiata putorino or flute song; also several waiata tangi describing the loss of a daughter from the Rangitikei / Manawatu area and waiata tangi from Maru iwi; waiata poroporoaki or farewell songs from people such as Tawhiao and several hymns covering a wide range of topics from Christianity to the `Mt Egmont Hotel' in Hawera; several war songs about the Orakau battle, Maori soldiers overseas during World War One, a waiata hari or `Triumph Song' and many other war songs from iwi on the East Coast; also songs about birds and Maori welcomes. Essays and articles on Maori food preparation and preservation about birds, body embalming and preserving heads, Maori lunar calendar, Ohaewai land claim, pataka, archaeology, Taranaki Maori history, Maori creation and Maori evolution, stories with an essentially New Zealand theme, the meeting proceedings between the Premier and Maori at Patea, on William Cowper, Maori taonga and artifacts found in a Ohaewai Cave in the Bay of Islands, a swimming pool with the skeletal remains of Frenchmen in a settlement in England, an account of the `Death of Hauraki, a Hokianga Chief' during the New Zealand Wars in 1845-1846, on Maori and Polynesian origins, protest to the Treaty of Waitangi in 1913. Photographs of landscape such as the Whangarei Heads and Mt Manaia, photograph of a Chief, Pokai Tete, letter to Sir James Carroll and another to Sir Maui Pomare, includes card play tactics in cribbage and also whakapapa of Hongi Hika of Ngapuhi and Kapewhiti of Taranaki also includes 92 whakatauaki and material on Ngapuhi grammar or Maori phrases. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts (some with ms annotations) and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Mohi Te Atahikoia - Maori whakapapa since Hawaiki
Date: [1930s]
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-6717-021
Description: Typescript prepared by Te Atahikoia which includes traditional information about the activities of Whena and Uenuku at Hawaiki, and the migration of the Takitimu canoe from Hawaiki to New Zealand. Also includes traditional information at Ngati Kahungunu ancestors including Tupurupuru, Rakaihikuroa and Taraia; following this, various conflicts involving Ngati Kahungunu and other iwi are described. The typescript then details events that affected Ngati Kahungunu ki Heretaunga, with a special focus on the Waimarama area. Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-1354 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Maori place-names of New Zealand (vol 2)
Date: [1930-1940]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-03
Description: Contents comprise Waikanae area (J D Climie's surveys of 1880 and 1884); Otaki River mouth (Carkeek's survey of 1887); New Zealand (showing Te Rauparaha's and Te Puoho's routes and raids); plan of Manukorihi pa, Waitara; Kaiapohia pa, locality and plan; Manawatu River and Gorge etc (NZ Company's survey of 1842); Lower Wairarapa and Port Nicholson (NZ Company's surveys of 1842); Tararua Range, including Rimutaka Range and southwestern hill system; Hutt Valley; southwestern hill system of Wellington; Oroua and Awahou blocks (J T Stewart's survey, 1860); Horowhenua Lake and vicinity (NZ Co's survey, 1842); list of English place names transliterated into Maori Arrangement: Notebook no 2 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).
Maori place-names of New Zealand (vol 4)
Date: [1930-1940]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-05
Description: Contents comprise Great Island, Three Kings group; Poor Knights Islands; Tuhua (Mayor Island); Waikanae-Reikorangi area; Pa-o-Toata, Waikanae River; Kapiti Island; Otago Harbour and peninsula; Mokau River (mouth and lower reaches and upper course); and Maori adaptations of foreign place names Arrangement: Notebook no 4 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).