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Date: 1970 - 1975

From: [Various artists] :[Postcards depicting works of art]. National Art Gallery. Wellington, N.Z. [1970s]

By: Richardson, Harry Linley, 1878-1947

Reference: E-278-q-039

Description: Postcard depicting H Linley Richardson's oil painting of a elderly Maori woman wearing a tag cloak and holding a patu, seated inside a meeting house by a wooden carving Purchased by National Art Gallery in 1948 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 150 x 105 mm

Date: 1970 - 1975

From: [Various artists] :[Postcards depicting works of art]. National Art Gallery. Wellington, N.Z. [1970s]

By: Richardson, Harry Linley, 1878-1947

Reference: E-278-q-039-A

Description: Postcard depicting H Linley Richardson's oil painting of a elderly Maori woman wearing a tag cloak and holding a patu, seated inside a meeting house by a wooden carving Purchased by National Art Gallery in 1948 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 150 x 105 mm

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: [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).