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Maori children on a horse-drawn sledge at Jerusalem, Wanganui - Photograph taken by Edw...
Date: Feb 1955
From: Tourist and Publicity
By: Christensen, Edward Percival, 1907-1982
Reference: 1/2-032786-F
Description: National Publicity Studios caption reads: "Maori children on horse-drawn sledge at Jerusalem (Hiruharama), Wanganui River. On skyline is Catholic church of Marist Fathers' Mission." Photograph taken in February 1955, by Edward Percival Christensen. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - right of image - A39570 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.
Gully, John, 1819-1888 :Up-river scene, Wanganui, Wellington / John Gully, 1875. Dunedi...
Date: 1875
From: Gully, John, 1819-1888 :New Zealand scenery chomolithographed after original water-color drawings by John Gully with descriptive letterpress by Dr Julius von Haast. Dunedin, Henry Wise & Company ; London Marcus Ward & Co., 1877
Reference: PUBL-0010-12
Description: A fenced whare with canoes in the water below it in the right foreground, European houses and a church on both sides of the river in the middle distance and five people swimming in the river. Flax, toetoe and other low plants in the foreground and bush-clad hills in the distance Possibly shows Pipiriki. In the accompanying notes to this print Gully states: On the right of the picture, overlooking an old Indian corn garden a large native house, surrounded by palisades is visible ... further up ... the native church, with a few houses and the burial ground ... On the opposite side the remains of a small native settlement ... The two kinds of canoe used by the natives are seen on the river - the regular river canoe with a sharp prow, and the large and more ornamental one, the pitau, commonly used for coasting purposes in both islands Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 304 x 376 mm
Ranana on the Whanganui River
Date: [ca 1870s and 1880s]
From: Nairn, Douglas, fl 1973 :Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji
Reference: PA1-o-359-08
Description: Ranana and the Huriwhenua meeting house on the banks of the Whanganui River. Photograph taken by the Burton Brothers, circa 1870-1880s. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Maori village similar to those overwhelmed by eruption; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3522 Ranana (London) Wanganui River. Burton Bros Dunedin; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - [?]ri at home series Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: print 14 x 19.2 cm, mounted on album page
Tangi for Porokoru Patapu at Putiki
Date: 1917
From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)
Reference: 1/1-016456-G
Description: Scene at the Tangi for Porokoru Patapu at Putiki, in 1917, showing unidentified Maori men, women and children alongside kakahu (Maori cloaks) and portraits of ancestors. Photograph taken by either Mark Lampe or Frank J Denton. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Unidentified Maori group - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington
Date: [ca 1900]
From: Auckland Star :Negatives
Reference: 1/1-003127-G
Description: Studio photograph of a group of men. Three are wearing feather cloaks, one is wearing a piupiu around his shoulders, two others as a skirt. The two younger men sitting in the front are wearing striped tops. Three of the men are holding taiaha. Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington, ca 1900, probably in the Wanganui district. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches
Public notice, Moutoa Gardens, Wanganui - Photograph taken by Phil Reid
Date: 2 May 1995
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP-Ethics-Demonstrations-Moutoa Gardens-02
Description: Public notice attached to a tree in the Moutoa Gardens, Wanganui. The notice informs the public that the Gardens are now Pakaitore Marae, and that persons entering the gardens are subject to the rules of protocol in accordance with Te Tikanga O Whanganui. The notice also lists rules and the consequences for infringing them. Photograph taken by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid on the 5th of May 1995. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler print 18.4 x 12.6 cms
Unidentified women inside a Maori storehouse, Lake Papaitonga, Levin area
Date: [ca 1910]
From: Williams, P C :Photographs of Levin, Weraroa and Auckland c1900s
By: Williams, William, 1858-1949
Reference: PAColl-0434-07
Description: Unidentified women inside a pataka (Maori storehouse) at Lake Papaitonga, Levin area, circa 1910. Photograph taken by William Williams. The storehouse is now held at Te Papa. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.6 x 9 cm
Medley, Mary Catherine (Taylor), 1835-1922 :Putiki, Wanganui. [Between 1896 and 1899]
Date: 1896 - 1899
From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.
Reference: E-380-011
Description: Shows the houses and a church of Putiki on the South bank of the Whanganui River, viewed from the town side, across the river. Two small boats are in the water, one possibly dredging Other Titles - Whanganui Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Putiki, Wanganui Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)
The Graphic :The recent native troubles in New Zealand. [From drawings by George Sherri...
Date: 1882
By: Graphic (London, England); Sherriff, George, 1846-1930
Reference: B-033-006
Description: 10 vignettes from drawings by George Sherriff, showing the Rutland Stockade, a portrait of Major Noake, Mount Egmont with the remains of the Maori fortification at Turoturomokai, Rahotu stockade and camp, Opunake Redoubt, scene in a pa with Maori standing guard by a hut, Te Whiti and Tohu, 'the murderer Hiroki and his guard', the military camp at Pungarehu and Parihaka Published in The Graphic, London, 8 April 1882 The Graphic attributes the drawings to George Sherriff. Some are signed with an engraver's monogram, either H. J. or J. H. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 305 x 228 mm
Maori woman carrying a baby on her back - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Part...
Date: [ca 1900]
From: Auckland Star :Negatives
Reference: 1/1-003118-G
Description: Portrait of an unidentified young Maori woman with a moko and short hair. She is carrying a young child on her back, both wrapped in a korowai (Maori tag cloak). Photographed by William Henry Thomas Partington in early 1900s, probably at Wanganui. Other - The moko appears to be retouched, possibly no actual moko? Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - bottom right - 28 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches
Burton Brothers, 1868-1898 (Firm, Dunedin) :Photograph of Jerusalem
Date: 1885
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-8741
Description: Photograph of a group of Maori in front of a meeting house at Jerusalem, taken 1885 by Burton Brothers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Hiroharama (Jerusalem) - Wanganui River Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3529-Hiroharama-(Jerusalem-) Wanganui River. Burton Bros. Dunedin; Verso - top centre - Hirorahama (Jerusalem) Wanganui Riv Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.6 x 19.9 cm
Adkin album 13
Date: Early 1900s to 1931
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-002
Description: Maori place names and old historical sites of Horowhenua (Vol. 1, images 1-146). Album includes maps, diagrams & sketches, and black & white photographs. Views include Paremata Redoubt, Lake Horowhenua, carved pātaka at Papaitonga Pā. Views of Komokorau, the burial place of Mua-Upoko chiefs including Chief Mahuera Paki Tanguru-o-te-rangi; Lake Wai-tawa and Te Moutere (formerly a fortified island pā). Place names & historic features of Kapiti Island, including relics of whaling days at Wharekohu Bay showing ruins of stone house, stone walls and a stone-embanked stream channel, burial caves, Waiorua Valley showing the approximate site of Te Rauparaha's principal pā, and Motungārara Island where there was a subsidiary pā of Te Rauparaha. Ōtaki, Rangiātea Church (1925); carved whare at Puke-Karaka; Ōtaki Jubilee Pole; and old meeting house Uawhaki at Waikawa. The site of the old Māori flour-mill on the Waitarere Stream at Poroutawhao, which was built in 1853 or 1854 under the direction of a French priest. Several images of performers competing in the haka and poi competitions at Shannon, 2 January 1928. Images of Pākehā pioneers of Horowhenua (Hector McDonald and his wife Agnes (nee Carmont)), and a photograph of Rora Hakaraia, daughter of Mua-Upoko chief Tanguru, and sister of Te Rangihiwinui (also known as Taitoko, and later as Te Keepa or Major Kemp). The photograph of Rora Hakaraia was taken from a painting in the possession of Rod A. McDonald of Levin. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s).
Four young Maori women at Taumarunui - Photographed by William Henry Thomas Partington
Date: [ca 1900]
From: Auckland Star :Negatives
By: Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940
Reference: 1/1-003129-G
Description: Four young Maori women photographed standing outdoors in a row with hands on each other's shoulders. They are wearing European clothing and all but one are bare-footed. Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington in early 1900s at Taumarunui. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches
Row of men in semi-traditional Maori clothing, at Kaiwhaiki
Date: [ca 1900-1910]
From: Auckland Star :Negatives
By: Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940
Reference: 1/2-008310-G
Description: Row of men in semi-tradional Maori clothing, Kaiwhaiki, circa 1900-1910. Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington. This is one of a group of photographs taken at Kaiwhaiki - see 1/2-008302 to 1/2-008310 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches
Studio portrait of a young woman wearing traditional Maori clothing - Photographed by W...
Date: [ca 1910]
From: Auckland Star :Negatives
By: Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940
Reference: 1/1-003066-G
Description: Studio portrait of an unidentified young woman. She is wearing traditional Maori clothing and is wearing a hui tail feather behind each ear. Photographed standing beside a chair in side profile from waist up. She is holding a tewhatewha. Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington in early 1900s. Studio portraits of the same young woman also at 1/1-003069, 1/2-003067, 1/1-003068. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 68. Eti Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches
Unidentified Maori woman with piupiu - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington
Date: [ca 1900]
From: Auckland Star :Negatives
By: Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940
Reference: 1/1-003116-G
Description: Unidentified young Maori woman draped with piupiu (Maori flax skirts), reclining on a flax mat with her head supported by her right hand. Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington, ca 1900, at Putki. The same women appears on the far left of a group photograph taken at Putiki (1/1-003149) Source of descriptive in information: Te Awa; Partrington's photographs of Whanganui Maori, p 44 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - bottom left - 41 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches
Studio portrait of a young woman wearing traditional Maori clothing - Photographed by W...
Date: [ca 1910]
From: Auckland Star :Negatives
By: Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940
Reference: 1/1-003067-G
Description: Studio portrait of an unidentified young woman. She is wearing traditional Maori clothing and is wearing a hui tail feather behind each ear. Photographed standing beside a chair from waist up. She is holding a tewhatewha in her right hand and resting it on her shoulder. Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington in early 1900s. Studio portraits of the same young woman also at 1/1-003069, 1/2-003066, 1/1-003068. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 77. Eti Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches
Letters in Maori
Date: 1865
From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0075-031C
Description: Maori correspondence mostly from the Whanganui district relating tribal activities, affairs and matters relating to land. Includes lists of names for Maori living at Parewanui; report from a meeting between Governor Grey, Major Kemp (Te Ranghiwinui), and various hapu from Whanganui; a letter about Epiha Patapu, native policeman from Whanganui who gave an oath of allegience to the Queen. Also includes letter from Wikitoa Taringakuri (aka Te Kaeaea) offering to sell large amounts of land in Wellington because of his extreme age and inability to collect the rents of his properties. Arrangement: Previously from 1/1 Official Correspondence series Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece level inventory available.
Taitoko, a private house at Putiki, Whanganui
Date: [ca 1912]
From: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives
Reference: 1/1-007334-G
Description: Photograph taken by Samuel Heath Head, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Maori at Jerusalem
Date: 1961
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0072-F
Description: Maori at Jerusalem in 1961. Shows a girl with a guitar; a mother breastfeeding; a group sitting outside the post office; groups of children. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.