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[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :A mako - imitation tooth of a shark at Otawhao. Very ...

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

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Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947 :[Portrait of Ina Te Papatahi. 1902].

Date: 1902

By: Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: B-123-080

Description: Shows an elderly Maori woman with chin moko, smoking a pipe and wearing a yellow scarf. She wears a greenstone earring. The image is cropped at the bottom immediately below the attachment of the gathered yoke of the garment she wears. Title and date taken from reproduction in Roger Blackley's "Goldie" (1997), page 53. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. F. Goldie / Auckland Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph stuck to board, 365 x 480 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Wellington Savage Club in 1997. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

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Jane, a halfcaste

Date: 13 Aug 1850

From: Vigors, Philip Doyne (Lieutenant), 1825-1903 : Private journal of a four months cruise through some of the South Seas Islands and New Zealand in HMS Havannah

Reference: qMS-2081-056a

Description: Vigors' sketch ("No. 18"), is subtitled "a New Zealand girl". She is shown in a plain European dress, with a single ear-ring, short hair and facial tattoo (moko). Sketch is from Vigor's journal of his voyage on HMS Havannah and is mounted on a page following p 56. Lieutenant Philip Doyne Vigors was an officer with the 11th Regiment of Foot. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 174 x 126 mm

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Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Smith, Robin: Photographs of work and leisure in New Zealand

Date: ca 1950s-1960s

By: Robin Smith Photography Ltd

Reference: PAColl-0530

Description: Set of photographs of work and leisure in New Zealand, the majority of cattle and sheep mustering and skiing but including a woman water skiing, a woman painting a vase of flowers in oils, a Maori man carving wood, portraits of individual Maori, a procedure in the wine making process, men in the oyster fishing industry, a woman testing eggs, a man looking up at a tree with a chain saw etc. Photographer was Robin Smith. Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Goldie, Charles Frederick 1870-1947 :Sophia, the heroine of Tarawera. 1910. [Auckland C...

Date: 1910 - 1995

From: Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947 :[Posters, reproductions of portraits, by C F Goldie. 1997].

Reference: B-123-075

Description: Shows reproduction of oil painting. Head and shoulders portrait of the Maori guide Te Paea Hinerangi, She wears a tartan woollen coat and a scarf, and has some tattooing outlining her lips. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (copy of oil painting). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 511 x 420 mm.

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New Zealand events - Miscellaneous

Date: Apr 1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-181

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, Apr 1949 Scene at the civic reception held in Dixon Park, Greymouth to honour the visit of HMNZS Kaniere, one of the new frigates of the Royal New Zealand Navy; Cromwell racecourse; action photos from Ngaruawahia's annual regatta (includes young Maori boy eating watermelon); Maori deputation visiting Parliament to discuss the question of liquor licence in the King Country (includes portrait of 78 year old Mrs A Huirama); exhibition held in Christchurch of Japanese wood-block colour prints compiled by K R Moshelm, a former director of Army Education and Welfare Service in Japan; Bailey bridge on Lewis Pass Road, near Glen Wye Station; photo of family of Gilbert Edwards, a Dunedin claimant to the fortune of a Welsh stonemason who immigrated to New York and died in 1789 (story in Free Lance, 20 Apr 1949). Makara Radio Station (series of photos including A F Smith, officer in charge of Makara Radio Station); Star Rugby Club, New Plymouth 60th jubilee celebrations and members of the 1919-1939 decades in the grand parade held at Rugby Park; limestone caves recently discovered at Lake Te Anau (Cave of Swirling Waters). Final section of the main highway between Auckland and Te Kuiti under construction (Mayor of Te Kuiti, K W Law watching final load of metal chips being laid); composting of Masterton's refuse; construction of the road at Belmont Gully and Haywards (Hutt Valley); repair of fault in the Auckland-Suva cable by Government steamer Matai; Union Steam Company's vessel Waitemata en route to Vancouver rescuing converted Fairmile launch Mahurangi in Pacific Ocean near Rarotonga. All Black captain Fred Allen, with former All Black Trevor Berghan and Mrs Berghan in fancy dress costume; Chinese crew's arrival in Auckland to take over the Union Steam Ship Company's vessel Kaikorai at Port Chalmers (sold to Hwah Lee Steam Ship Company of Shanghai) Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Photographs of tattooed Maori Women, and others relating to Te Puea Herangi

Date: [ca 1900]-1966

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004 : Photographs relating to Maori

Reference: PAColl-9977-8

Description: Portraits of elderly Maori women with facial tattos (moko kauwae) most taken by Marti Friedlander for Michael King's book `Moko,' first published in 1972. All of the subjects lived in the North Island of New Zealand. Most of them are identified. Photographs relating to Te Puea Herangi. These include - Portraits of Te Puea at different times during her life. Photographs relating to her work, such as the group of orphaned children she fostered after the flu epidemic of 1918. The construction of the ceremonial waka (canoe) Ngatokimatawhaorua. Building works at Turangawaiwai Marae, in particular the meeting house Mahinarangi (1929), and the Maori monarch's official residence, Turongo House including the opening of this in 1938. Te Puea's tangi, and her coffin being carried up Taupiri Mountain. Maori monarch's include - King Mahuta Tawhiao (1855?-1912). King Koroki (1909-1966). Queen Te Arikinui Te Atairangikaahu (1931-2006). Maori soldiers from the period of the First World War. The Parliament House (Turangawaiwai House) at Ngaruawahia (built 1912-1919). The photographs relating to Te Puea were gathered at the time that Michael King was writing her biography. Quantity: 62 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

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Huiarei - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003076-G

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of a Maori woman with a moko identified as Huiarei. She is wearing a korowai (tag cloak) around her shoulders, and has a huia feather in her hair. Photographed by William Henry Thomas Partington, probably at Wanganui, ca 1900. Identified on back of file print as Huiarei. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 63 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

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Pura - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-008287-G

Description: Maori woman named Pura with moko, wearing a korowai (tag cloak), tiki and shark's teeth eardrops on ribbons. Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington, circa 1900, probably in the Wanganui region. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

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Waitapu Rongonui - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003112-G

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Waitapu Rongonui, a Maori woman wearing a korowai. She is wearing a huia tail feather in her hair on the right. Photographed by William Henry Thomas Partington ca 1900, probably at Wanganui. On back of file print - Waitapu Rongonui, Wanganui River Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - bottom left - 79 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

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Mutu Brandon (Ngamoenga) - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003090-G

Description: Portrait of a young Maori woman with a moko, wearing a kakahu (Maori cloak). Photographed by William Henry Thomas Partington in early 1900s, probably at Wanganui. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 54. Mutu Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

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Terihi Materoa - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003086-G

Description: Portrait of a young Maori woman with a moko, wearing a hei tiki and a kakahu (Maori cloak), identified as Terihi Materoa. Photographed by William Henry Thomas Partington in early 1900s, probably at Wanganui. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 33. Terihi Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

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Mare carrying a baby on her back - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003084-G

Description: Portrait of a young Maori woman with a moko and short hair, identified as Mare. She is carrying a baby on her back, both wrapped in a kakahu (Maori cloak). Photographed by William Henry Thomas Partington in early 1900s, probably at Wanganui. Other - For another image of this woman see 1/1-003083 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 10. Mere Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

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Maringa - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-008289-G

Description: Maori woman named Maringa with moko, wearing a korowai (tag cloak). Her long hair is worn loose over her shoulders and down her back.Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington, circa 1900, probably in the Wanganui region. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

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Strutt, William 1825-1915 :Martha. Taranaki. 1856

Date: 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 1st series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-452-f-005-1

Description: Full-length frontal portrait of a young Maori woman, seated or kneeling. She has moko on lips and chin, scars on her left cheek, her hair parted in the middle. She wears a large tiki, and a European smock, with two fine woven cloaks over the top. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 230 x 180 mm

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Tangi of Makere Wikitoria Taitoko at Putiki

Date: Jun 1912

From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)

Reference: 1/1-021299-G

Description: Unidentified women attending the tangi of Makere Wikitoria Taitoko at Putiki, June 1912. They are sitting on the ground, with dark scarves over their hair, and plaid shawls around their shoulders. The kuia in the foreground has a chin moko and smokes a pipe. Photograph taken by Frank J Denton. Note on back of file print reads: "from Whare Kura v 1-3 p138-143" Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top right - 1800 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

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Rapera Jones - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003081-G

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of a Maori woman with a moko identified as Rapera Jones. She is wearing a long pendant and earrings, and a feather cloak which is decorated with peacock feathers. Photographed by William Henry Thomas Partington, probably at Wanganui, ca 1900. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 16. Rapira Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

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Stoddart, Margaret Olrog, 1865-1934 :Hariota. March 2nd, 1887.

Date: 1887

By: Stoddart, Margaret Olrog, 1865-1934

Reference: A-129-015

Description: Shows and head and shoulders full face portrait of a Maori woman wearing a white headscarf, and striped blanket or shawl, pinned at the neck with a gold brooch. The woman has moko on the lips. The portrait may have been made on the Chatham Islands during the artist's visit there. Other Titles - Hariata Inscriptions: Recto - top right - "Hariota" / March 2nd 1887 / M.O.S. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 353 x 250 mm. Provenance: The work was given to Marcia Shaw about 15 years previously, by another dealer.

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Unidentified Maori woman wearing a tag cloak - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas...

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003117-G

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of an unidentified young Maori woman wearing a korowai (traditional Maori tag cloak). She has a moko on her chin and a hei tiki around her neck.Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington, ca 1900, probably at Wanganui. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 39 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

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