Places

Date: 1866 - 1869

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-4/2/6-Acc.37786

Description: Identifies troop movements in South Taranaki. Includes Major Kepa's bush chase of Hauhaus from Whakamara to Taiporohoniu, 18, 19/3/69. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on greaseproof paper. Scale [ca. 1:63 360] 56 x 74.8 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1864 - 1865

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-043

Description: View looking out to sea, across a landscape heavily eroded into chasms by water, with a waterfall on the right and a fishing pa with low huts perched on a cliff-top to the left, watched by two Royal Artillery soldiers on the left. A copy of a watercolour by E. A. Williams, the present location of which is unknown. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white, 173 x 249 mm Processing information: Titke changed in May 2019, as a result of information from a researcher.

Date: 1865

From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867

Reference: A-277-028

Description: Soldiers within an earthen rampart, with two standing guard, gazing out across a plain towards low hills. Within the shelter of the rampart are several tents, two with soldiers reclining inside them, one with a standing soldier leaning against it, and another seated soldier in front of it, smoking a pipe. Three rifles are stacked upright together in the centre. Probably a South Taranaki scene, the drawings are mounted in the album in chronolical order and those immediately before and after are of Taranaki Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour, 64 x 115 mm

Date: 1865

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-038

Description: View looking north up the beach towards Mount Taranaki and the cliffs of South Taranaki, with foot soldiers marching and cavalry ahead and to the right. The watercolour is a copy of a watercolour by Colonel Edward Arthur Williams held by the Hocken Library and entitled A stroll on the beach - Mt Egmont in the distance, 16 February 65. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white, 173 x 249 mm

Date: 1865

From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867

Reference: A-277-031

Description: Looking inland towards a range of hills and mountains, including Mount Taranaki at some distance, with a small unoccupied canoe and a dinghy with a sail carrying three people from one bank to the other. Two more small boats further up the river, and, in the distance, a house and a row of cabbage trees. Likely to be a river in South Taranaki, or North of Wanganui, although not as far north as the Patea River, given the small size of Mount Taranaki in the distance. Possibly the Waitotara River. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 97 x 137 mm

Date: 1865

From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867

Reference: A-277-026

Description: Mount Taranaki in the background of a scene in a military camp with a white goat (or possibly a bullock?) to the left, three tents and a mounted gun. In the foreground a man is carrying water. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour over pencil, 64 x 115 mm

Date: 1865

From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867

Reference: A-277-030

Description: The interior of a hut, with a soldier reading and smoking a pipe, the remains of a meal, including alcohol in front of him. He is seated at a large table, with a form along one side, suggesting that the room may be part of soldiers' barracks. Another room is visible to the left, with a thatched entranceway protruding into the main room. A sheathed sword and gun in its holster and another container are hanging from a beam and a skylight is propped open with a long stick. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 132 x 147 mm

Date: 1865

From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867

Reference: A-277-029

Description: A large military camp in a broad plain, with hills beyond. In the centre, surrounded by tents, is an earth rampart, possibly the same as that shown in the previous picture, A-277-028, Soldiers relaxing off duty. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour, 83 x 161 mm

Date: 1865

From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867

Reference: A-277-027

Description: Maori man seated on the ground, seen in profile, wrapped in a blanket and smoking a pipe Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 64 x 115 mm (arched top)

Date: 1865

From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867

Reference: A-277-025

Description: Maori man seated on the ground, seen in profile, wrapped in a blanket and wearing a soldier's peaked cap. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour, 64 x 115 mm

Date: [1868-1923]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-98

Description: Three handwritten letters from J M Roberts to Cowan dated 1922 and 1923. Also two typescripts titled 'Taranaki Campaigns' and 'The defeat at Te Ngutu, Colonel Roberts account' and 'Waikato and Taranaki: Notes from Colonel Roberts'. A pencil drawing of the plan of Te Ngutu o te Manu battlesite by Cowan. Arrangement: Was bundle 47 in original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1864 - 1865

By: Johnston, John Tremenhere, active 1850s-1860s

Reference: B-079-023

Description: Shows a camp and redoubt with the sea to the left, Egmont in the background to the north, soldiers with a bullock-cart moving along a track towards the camp and cows grazing in the foreground Supplied title Attributed based on style and information from donor May show the redoubts and camps at Patea, on the Patea River's north and south banks. However the river is not visible in the view. The Manawapo area in South Taranaki also had two redoubts at high points near the stream mouth and this view may be of that area, north of Patea Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 283 x 480 mm