Places

Date: 1847 - 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Giles, John West, 1801-1870

Reference: B-080-028

Description: The Pa's series of palisades on the hill to the left, with storehouses visible at the highest level. Several Maori seated in the foreground, and three around a small canoe at the water's edge. The details are a close copy of the watercolour original in the Library's collection. Published in: Angas G F The New Zealanders Illustrated. Pl. 32 After original watercolour, held at A-196-022 On sheet: 380 x 560 mm Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 232 x 324 mm

Date: 1885

Reference: Eph-A-ROWING-1885-01

Description: A list of the nine races to take place at the regatta for children, including pair-oared skiffs for various age groups of children. The prize for each event is shown; most are medals, but the prize for the Greasy Boom was a pig. The finale was tea and muffins. The committee included: Mrs T Morrin, Mrs Mitchelson, Mrs Tilly, Mrs J L Wilson and Mrs Carr. Starter was J Bennett, umpire was E Mitchelson and the judge was T E Tilly. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on flier, 205 x 127 mm. Transfers: Photographs purchased with this item are housed at PAColl-8579..

Date: 1843

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

Reference: PUBL-0011-08-2

Description: An extensive view of the Wairarapa Plain with Rimutaka Range and Tararua Ranges in the background ("the snowy range in the distance is the Tararua Mountains"); a wild boar hunt in the foreground, with 4 Maori, 3 Pakeha men and four dogs. The dogs are worrying the boar. The Maori are wearing traditional Maori clothing, and all are carrying firearms. Bracken and tree ferns in the foreground and clumps of bush on the plain. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 238 x 495 mm

Date: 1849 - 1850

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: C-001-011

Description: Shows a waka being drawn up on a beach by a group of about sixteen men, while two Maori stand and one is seated in the right foreground, with a pig and several kete. In the background the hillside slopes to the sea and there is a long whare on the slope, with figures standing in front of it and a camp fire at the left end of it. Compare Oliver's watercolour in private hands: 'Launching a canoe, Bay of Islands', (photograph held in the Library's file print sequence), probably the sketch taken on the spot. 'Sketch on the Wahapu beach' was probably a second copy of 'Launching a canoe'. Details have been slightly simplified, but are otherwise identical. 'Sketch on the Wahapu beach' is probably a second copy in Oliver's own hand. The brushwork appears to be in his style. Dating: this work may date to the artist's visit to the Bay of Islands in April 1849, or to his visit with Governor George Grey to the Bay of Islands in August-September 1849. Other Titles - Captain Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on linen-backed paper, 350 x 533 mm.

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-014

Description: Nine small studies of standing and seated Maori, mostly in groups. Include a seated portrait of a woman called Martha, wrapped in a blanket, and of a Maori man taking a pig on a rope to market in Taranaki. Three groups of seated Maori are labelled 'Onehunga nr Auckland'. One drawing is a study for Strutt's 'Maori girl with a dog' Quantity: 9 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 40 x 50 mm to 90 x 125 mm

Date: 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: E-070-008

Description: Shows lake in distance; party hunting wild pig in foreground with dogs, worrying the pig. The party includes a Maori man dressed in traditional costume. In: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. Plate 4, No 10, text p. 9. Brees stresses the value of the flat land in this area, its quality for farming and the building of part of a road across the Rimutaka Range. Brees spent some time in the Wairarapa surveying until the New Zealand Company suspended its operations in 1844, so the engraving is presumably based on a drawing completed between 1842 (Brees' year of arrival in New Zealand) and 1844. Extended Title - From: Brees, S.C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand (London, 1847) Plate 4, no 10. Also from: Brees' Guide and description of the panorama of New Zealand (London, 1849) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 90 x 188 mm

Date: 28 June 1878

From: Walsh, Philip 1843-1914 :[Waitara sketchbook]

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-357-031/032

Description: Shows rows of kumara baskets, topped with pigs ready for a huge feast, a large crowd of Maori and Europeans mostly seated, dogs, a horse and cart, flags, the palisade of a pa and houses in the background. A Maori man is making a speech to the left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 110 x 360 mm

Date: 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-196-022

Description: A series of palisades of the pa on the hill to the left, with storehouses visible behind the highest level of fencing. Four Maori seated or leaning on a carved post in the foreground, along with a piglet; two others seated at the lake edge and three in or beside a small waka laden with stores at the water's edge. Related copies: Original for a lithograph by J W Giles in The New Zealanders Illustrated (London, 1847), Plate 32. Motupoi Pah was described by Angas as a heavily fortified pa on a neck of land jutting into lake Roto-Aire. The chief at the time of this painting was Munga-Kahu, a Roman Catholic convert. Purchased with assistance from the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 573 x 820 mm Provenance: Previously from the collection of Captain A W F Fuller, London.

Date: 1843

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: PUBL-0011-08

Description: An extensive view of the Wairarapa Plain with Wairarapa Lake on the left, Rimutaka Range and Tararua Ranges in the background ("the snowy rnage in the distance is the Tararua Mountains"), a wild boar hunt in the foreground, with 5 Maori, 3 Pakeha men and four dogs and a bivouac noted on the plain to the right. Bracken and tree ferns in the foreground and clumps of bush on the plain. The accompanying text reads: This district lies about fifty miles from Wellington by the nearest road. Mr Charles Kettle, one of the Company's Assistant-Surveyors, ascended the Manawatu River, which flows along the other side of the Tararua Mountains, and entered this plain by rounding the low spurs at the extreme right of the view. The forest consists of the largest trees. The open tracts are covered with grass, feern and tutu bushes. Wild hogs abound in this plain. The Ruamahanga flows through the midst of it, and passes through Lake Wairarapa into Palliser Bay. The plain of the Ruamahanga is about sixty miles in length, with an average breadth of twelve miles. There is one small native village at its northern extremity, and another on the beach at Palliser Bay, as well as a whaling station supplied from Wellington. Lake Wairarapa is ten miles long, and from two to three miles broad. Between the lake and the sea several settlers from Wellington have recently squatted with large herds of cattle, which they drove along the sea-coast. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, in 3 sections 238 x 460 mm + 495 mm + 460 mm

Date: 1878

By: Harper's weekly (Periodical); Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: A-018-003

Description: A group of settlers in the foreground, observing Maori seated and making speeches outside Waitara Pa, with Mount Taranaki in the background. To the left is a hakari, with a low bank of flax kits filled with food, the top completely covered with neat rows of cooked pigs After a drawing by Philip Walsh in the Library at E-357-031 Published in supplement to Harper's weekly 7 Dec 1878 Compare A-018/017, the same engraving published in The graphic Other Titles - Walsh, Philip Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 225 x 305 mm

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-040-3

Description: View from the Eastbourne road, just above sea level, looking towards the entrance to the harbour. Mrs Emma Jackson's section rises steeply to the left, with a pig grazing on the road, at its base. Below the road to the right is a flat area, cleared and fencedl, with a group of Maori seated on it, the sea to the right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 131 x 220 mm

Date: 1892 - 1895

By: Huddleston, Francis Fortescue Croft, 1846-1922

Reference: G-064

Description: Shows a large group of Maori seated and standing on a flat area of land in front of a carved meeting house. There are two large raupo whare further away at the left. The nearer one has steam or smoke rising from it, and may therefore be a whare kai. In the right background is a bushcovered hill and there are cleared hills in the left background, with higher hills in the distance. There are several dogs, some white and some brown, with the group of people, and a pig stands at the left. Photographs of the meeting house in the late 1880s show no carved tekoteko or amo figures. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - F C C Huddleston / 9[2 or 5] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 295 x 445 mm.

Date: 1840 - 1845

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: PUBL-0009

Description: Identifies Hutt River, Somes Island, Evans Bay and Wellington. Shows the huts of the first settlers at Petone. View from the western hills looking out towards the harbour entrance. Other Titles - Petone Another loose copy (black and white) at C-029-009. Original pen drawing at A-146-001. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) in book.. Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 242 x 405 mm, on sheet 370 x 540 mm.

Date: 1844

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

Reference: A-020-025

Description: The interior of a pa, with five people seated in the foreground, a carved canoe upright behind them, palisades and a steep hill with further palisades rising in the background. Shows Okukari Pa, Tory Channel, with the waters of Tory Channel to the left. A pig can be seen alongside the faintly-sketched seated person on the right MS notes Other Titles - Okukari Pa Inscriptions: Recto - A range of inscriptions, including 'Okukarei Pa', top left, 'Tory Channel', bottom left, 'Hill Nga ti Toa killed Awa' above the highest palisaded hill in the centre, and other notes apparently relating to intertribal wars in the area 'Nga ti Toas exterminated [?] the Nga ti Kahunu with [?] a very large Pa', and 'Ngatikahuhunu' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 336 x 237 mm

Date: 1885

From: [Doubleday, William and John], fl 1880s :[Twenty-three watercolours of New Zealand and the Pacific. 1884-1885]

Reference: C-150-023

Description: Shows a view of Lake Taupo with Maori houses and huts, and a raised storehouse on the foreshore in the foreground. Some houses are surrounded by fences of thin branches. Two pigs graze in the left foregorund, and the foreground vegetation includes two cabbage trees. In the distance, Mount Ngauruhoe smokes, and Ruapehu is snow-covered. This watercolour was painted by either William or and John Doubleday in 1885, while they were travelling around the world - on doctor's orders to cure lung infections. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 123 x 370 mm.

Date: 1887

By: Laishley, Richard, 1816-1897

Reference: G-708

Description: Shows a Maori family in a bush clearing, their houses and domestic animals (pigs), around them. A group sits around a camp fire in the middle background. There is a kete (woven flax basket) in the right foreground. Other Titles - Maoris at home Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 908 x 698 mm

Date: 1844 - 1847

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

By: Giles, John West, 1801-1870

Reference: PUBL-0014-30

Description: Shows three different storehouses: 1. An ordinary patuka for holding seeds, at the small kainga or settlement of Te Pahe, on the Waiharikiriki River; with a potato store in the background, and the dwelling house of Te Ohu, a tohunga at Te Pahe; the sides are built of raupo and the roof is thatched with tohi-tohi grass. 2. At top right, an ordinary patuka belonging to Ko Tariu, at the settlement of Te Rapa, on the shores of Taupo Lake. 3. Another storehouse for food, belonging to the chief Te Heuheu, at Taupo. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured, 430 x 335 mm.

Date: 1855

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. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-012-1

Description: The interior of a pa, with a whare and the palisades. Two people are seated, weeping, while a visiting man stands alongside and another person lies outside the whare. Two more visitors are standing nearby on the left, their heads bowed. One visitor is carrying a baby on her back. Two pigs are asleep on the ground in the right foreground and two kete, or food baskets lie on the ground in the left foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 115 x 165 mm

Date: 1845 - 1847

By: Williams, John, -1905?; Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-079-017

Description: A European male, thought to be Joel Samuel Polack, facing three Maori men, one gesturing with two large woven kits of potatoes at his feet, another with potatoes on his back, the third holding a tethered pig. In the background is a curved bay, probably Kororareka (Russell) with tents and buildings visible and a canoe pulled up on the shore. Almost identical to, and possibly copied from a sketch by Cyprian Bridge entitled Maoris bartering pigs and potatoes ca 1845, (neg 52118 1/2) held in a private collection. Other Titles - Maoris bartering pigs and potatoes Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink & wash 260 x 360 mm

Date: 1844 - 1847

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

By: Hawkins, Frances Louisa, -1884

Reference: PUBL-0014-TP

Description: Title-page with title and author's name decoratively inscribed around the structure of a pataka. On the left are the palisades of a pa, on the right a carved figure. Below the pataka are a standing Maori woman, a reclining man, two pigs, a food-bowl and the carved stern of a canoe. The man and woman are in full Maori costume with cloaks, feather ornaments and a tiki round the woman's neck. The background scene appears to be a detail from Angas' lithograph of Te Heuheu's pa at Lake Taupo. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) in publication.. Physical Description: Hand-coloured lithograph, 500 x 355 mm