Places

Date: [1944]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-17

Description: Contents comprise notes re adze types; type VII, VB from Turakina district; Waitaha adze from Porirua Harbour; from Mangaroa; type IIA from Patea; greenstone adze from Levin-Foxton highway area; map of sites of Horowhenua adzes found by Henry J Kilsby; grey stone adze from Heatherlea-Koputaroa area, Horowhenua; blackstone adzes from Onukuwaiata, Waimakaira, Horowhenua and Wallace Road, Levin; location maps of adzes found by A Seifert, A Gillespie, Louis Noara and on Clifford's farm, Tokomaru area (1941-1944); adzes from Makurerua Swamp, Horowhenua Arrangement: Notebook no 16 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1962]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-61

Description: Comprises report on the Karere Ford patu onewa found near the Manawatu River, near Longburn. Also includes sketches of two toki (adzes). Arrangement: Notebook no 60 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1960-1961]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-53

Description: Comprises report on quadrilateral adze with tang reduction; discovery of canoe hull (waka ama) of form requiring an outrigger attachment, Te Horo; timetable and background notes to tour of Hawke's Bay; notes; sketch of Napier harbour from 1870 map; drawing of small pataka and trig station profile; street map of Napier, with route noted; photgraphs of group (identified); extended genealogy, Tainui and Takitimu canoes to David Winterburn; the magnificent Winterburn adze; squat mere-like patu from Makurerua-Linton area; map, Horowhenua-Manawatu area showing localities of recent archaeological and Maori lore finds, the Makurerua-Linton adze and the Paretoa old burial place Also photographs of Adkin, map showing Maori sites and place-names of the Heretaunga Plains, ca 1850 (from Colenso); and photographs of the Makurerua-Linton patu Arrangement: Notebook no 52 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1962]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-56

Description: Contents comprise report on the Ngatimamoe adze, north Wairarapa, from K R Cairns; tanged adze from Pukeatua ridge, Lower Hutt, with map; memoranda of tape recordings and other matters with J Brydon Speedy; excavations of a promontory pa site on south head of Owhariu Bay, Wellington, with profile and maps; notes on the archaeology of Waikaretu River, Raglan-Port Waikato coast, with maps; calva (skull cap), Waikaretu; lower mandible, Waikaretu; revered hogback adze, north Waikanae Arrangement: Notebook no 55 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1957-1958]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-37

Description: Comprises notes on the earliest ethnographic map of part of the Wellington area (with map); maps, Maori pa sites, Te Awamutu area; map, Heathcote-Sumner area, showing location of Moa-bone Point Cave; anomalous adze; note and drawing by A Formison; map, Maori sites, Owhariu Bay; paper by Adkin, date and culture of the earliest people of the North Island; Maori place-names of Te Korokoro-Te Tuara-whati-o-Te mana area, Hutt Valley (with map); massve adze, from Te Kaha Point, Bay of Plenty; Arrangement: Notebook no 36 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1940-1945]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-19

Description: Contents comprise notes on adze types for Mairua area, Lake Horowhenua; adzes type VIC, VIB and IIC from Wairoa, Hawke's Bay; Waipukurau-Te-Aute to coast area of Hawke's Bay showing site of Patangata skull and Maori place-names; diagrams of Patangata skull per J M Wright; Waikaremoana with Maori place names (after Best); environs of Waikaremoana with Maori place names and site of adzes, pounders, etc per J M Wright; and Puketoi Range and vicinity with sites of Maori material, per J M Wright, and Maori place names Arrangement: Notebook no 18 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1960-1961

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-49

Description: Contents comprise notes on native skeleton from Whakataki-Mataikona Coast, east Wairarapa per K R Cairns, with map; map of central part of the North Island showing route of tour via New Plymouth, Hamilton and northern end of Tauranga Harbour and return via Taupo, Desert Rd and Taihape; loose notes; map, New Plymouth area showing Maori place-names and sites, also routes, colour slides etc; map, Waihi Beach-Katikati coast, showing topography, Maori place-names and sites, colour slides etc; sketch plan of pa site at Kauri Point, Tauranga Harbour; map, east of Mt Taranaki, Hawera to Waitara showing pa sites; map, west of Mt Taranaki, showing pa sites and other features; map, Opunake coast showing Namu and Namu-iti pa sites; Arrangement: Notebook no 48 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: Before 1894

By: Leitch, W A, active 1894; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-260

Description: Album of scenic views of Tasmania, Sydney and wider New South Wales, and of New Zealand, both North and South Islands. Views of lighthouses include Derwent Lighthouse (Tasmania), Macquarie Lighthouse (South Head, Sydney), and Farewell Spit Lighthouse (Tasman Region, New Zealand). The New Zealand photographs are nearly all taken by Josiah Martin, and include one that is a collage of scenes he photographed, and one of Maori weapons, with captions to say they were deposited [in Auckland Museum] by Captain Gilbert Mair. A photograph attached to the inside of the back cover is of the Farewell Spit Lighthouse, and was taken by the Tyree Brothers firm Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - W.A. Leitch. 1894 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs' in gold lettering, with `Leitch' lettered in gold on spine; 21.5 x 28.5 cm Provenance: Purchase

Date: [1940-1944]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-18

Description: Contents comprise scheme of classification of Horowhenua and other adzes; examples of types and varieties of this classification; adze types VIB, IIA, IIIA, IA or IIIA, IIB all found in the Horowhenua area; locality plan of Muhunoa East adzes and other data; adze, type VB, from Kingstone Rd, Shannon and locality plan; adze, type IB, from gravel plain east of Levin and locality plan; type VA, from Queens Street East, Levin and type IIA from dunes north of Lake Papaitonga and locality plan; adzes, type VIB from sandstone upland north of Papaitonga, type IIIA from Muhunoa East, Ohau, and VA from Tahapu Rd, Manakau Arrangement: Notebook no 1 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1957]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-36

Description: Comprises notes on old occupation site at Kau Bay, Pt Halswell, Wellington Harbour (with maps); map of the Greytown area; map, pa near mouth of Waitotara River; map, Ohawe Village, Waingongoro River; Melanesian greenstone adze, Bethune's sale; new type of patu from Western Marlborough Sounds (with map); melanezoid adze; Maori place-names of Croisilles Harbour, Marlborough Sounds (with map); a series of maps of the NZ Company's 1st general survey, Wellington district; map, native garden, on Owhariu Stream Arrangement: Notebook no 35 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1958]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-39

Description: Comprises notes on three Wairarapa adzes; memoranda of some stone adzes from the Wellington city area; adze from site just north of Chelmsford St, Wellington; an ethnological weekend at Palmerston North and Wanganui; large adze with scroll on poll, Tangoio; various adzes; Aitutaki adze; adze found by W D Waugh, north Cape Turnagain (with map); Arrangement: Notebook no 33 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1940 - 1990

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

By: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010

Reference: E-574

Description: Nineteen pages of rough sketches showing designs of carvings of Whakatane pataka; Opotiki pataka; Taurapa of Te Whanauranga canoe carved by Ihakara Tukumaru at Otaki in 1831; comb from Takaka; Kaiapoi adze helve; Monk's Cave bailer; Bailer from Pelorus Sound; Waioeka - Koruru; Waioeka Pare; Rotoiti pataka. All appear to have been copied from museum specimens or books Other Titles - Croxley Matt Finish / Lion Brand Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Sketchpad of approximately 100 leaves, 200 x 123 mm. Processing information: Separated in 1999 to Drawings, Paintings and Prints, combined with ATL-Group-00693 in August 2023.

Date: ca 1963-1964

By: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964; Esler, Alan Eric, active 1961-1974

Reference: PAColl-7957

Description: Photographs collected by George Leslie Adkin, comprising views of Kapiti Island taken in January 1964 by A E Esler of Palmerston North, and photographs of Paramata artefacts taken by Ellis D Sinclair, with accompanying notes made by Adkin. Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Mary Keyes, Lower Hutt, in April 2004. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1267 : Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Papers. See also: Cartographic Collection - maps and plans..

Date: [1980s-1990]

From: Stratford, Peter : Epsom Trust collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11750-52

Description: Drafts, correspondence and other papers. Includes ET/AT 014, a draft article relating to Hongi Hika, ET/AT 015 a draft article relating to toki poutangata adzes, and ET/AT 016 a letter dated 1990 from Garth Cartright relating to Taylor's book `Maori folk art' which also discusses the artist Tony Fomison. Also includes some papers relating to Abe Wharekawa, the Black Power gang, a building project and papers seeking funding for a 1990 project relating to the writing of Maori biographies. Also includes a copy of Maori Rock Drawing: The Theo Schoon Interpretations published by the Robert McDougall Art Gallery (annotated - probably by Alan Taylor) with three black and white prints of the Takiroa Rock Shelter on a piece of cardboard. Also includes two pages of handwritten drafts for an article titled `Nga Atua Maori: Maori Gods' which includes a drawing of a godstick and a picture of rainbow labelled Kahukura, and a draft article relating to Oceanic canoes and Maori waka, including pencil drawings of tauihu and rapa (taurapa). These draft articles were in a hand printed envelope which has `Ms., karakia and whakapapa' written on it. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0 Linear Metres.

Date: 1940 - 1990

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: A-342-076/085

Description: Drawings of Maori adze shapes, entitled Pahaoa, Glendhu, Glenburn, Te Awaiti. Quantity: 10 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketches on sheets, sizes ranging from 215 x 340 mm to 340 x 430 mm..

Date: [1944]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-16

Description: Contents comprise lower course of Hokio Stream and vicinity; site of Kohitane clearing and of adze finds, Heatherlea, Levin; Waitaha adzes, types IVC, IVB, Heatherlea, Levin and IVB from Pakakutu pa site, Otaki; adzes, types IIA, IIIB, from Lindsay Road and Roslyn roads areas, Levin; data of skull from NB1, Otororoa dune-ridge, Horowhenua; adze-like chisel, type IIB, Pakatutu pa site, Otaki; adze, type IVB with pecularity, from Plimmerton (R A Prouse); canoe paddle with Manaia-head terminal, Porotawhao; Waitaha adze, type IVA from eastern edge Weraroa Cl, Levin and type IVB, Raumatangi Block, Horowhenua; data of problematical stone from northern Hawke's Bay. Note by Adkin: adze types are according to present writer's scheme of classification (see vol 17 of present series). Cover also has note, `adze types'. Arrangement: Notebook no 13 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1959

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-41

Description: Comprises maps of various parts of the South Island, (1) Cook Strait crossing by transport plane and Cloudy Bay (with southern part of Wellington region); (2) Wairau Bar moa-hunter site; Cloudy Bay, Marlborough Sounds and down to Clarence River; Lake Grassmere; Washdyke to the Ashley River; Waimakariri River to Hinds River, including Banks Peninsula; Rangitata River to Waitaki River, including headwaters; and photograph of hydro works, Waitaki River Arrangement: Notebook no 40 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1962-1963

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-60

Description: Contents comprise note on a remarkable sequence of archaeological finds, Horowhenua; report on the Waitaha midden-cooking oven site at Paremata Flat, Porirua Harbour (with photograph of Brees' sketch); note on heavy thick quadrilateral oblique-tanged adze from Paremata flat; note on tangless form of hogbacked adze from Waitaha site, Paremata Flat; notes on large hogbacked adze, Paremata site; notes, oblique-tanged quadrilateral adze, Paremata site, Porirua Harbour; adze, nephrite with tang, Paremata-Waitaha site, Porirua Harbour; unique Polynesian-type necklace, Paremata site Arrangement: Notebook no 59 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Reference: A-104-011/018

Description: Enclosed in a folder titled 'Illustrations for article on Sumner Cave'. Comprises one drawing of partly-shaped adzes with a lithograph based on the drawing, a picture of Shag Rock at Sumner, a plan, possibly of a rocky outcrop near the mouth of the Rakaia River, an image of a feather (possibly a moa feather), a scientific drawing of a rocky outcrop with the sea on the right, a swamp on the left (possibly early Redcliffs), a limestone cliff with a shelter close to sea or a river, with two men, Maori rock drawings (possibly from the limestone cliff shelter), a map of the mouth of the Rakaia River, 'Cryer's homestead' and possibly an archaeological site of a Maori village at the river mouth. Includes copy of rock drawings. Possibly drawings for an article on early Māori in Canterbury by Johannes Andersen; or from the Polynesian Society Other Titles - Sumner Cave Quantity: 7 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, lithographs, sizes vary ca 101 x 152 mm

Date: [1954-1955]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-28

Description: Contents comprise notes on adzes found at Ohau Bay (Wellington); Waikanae, McCrae's Flat (Central Otago), Dargaville and Horowhenua; a greenstone spike 12" in length found at Arapawa Island (with map and genealogy of the Heberley family); map showing geographical features and the position of Maori Pa sites and kainga of central Wellington; map showing distribution of type IV adzes (Waitaha culture) of western Wellington from Palliser Bay to Foxton; adze found at McCrae's flat Otago. Arrangement: Notebook no 27 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).