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Maori notebook (vol 53)

Date: [1961-1962]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-54

Description: Comprises reports and notes on old Maori burial ground at Paretoa; the site of the outrigger canoe hull, nr Te Horo (with map); unusual adze form pendant, nr Waikanae; Maori net floats; preliminary tour of Horowhenua by Palmerston North Polynesian group, with map showing pa; circular letter to Wairarapa and Manawatu; problematical contents of a Wairarapa Maori cache; cloak-pin or fish-threader bodkin from Castlepoint; memoranda of a Maori skull from the Waikanae dune-belt; identification of a large wooden artefact, nr Waikanae; from Keith Cairns re Maori sites; photographs, L Horowhenua and eastern end of L Papaitonga Arrangement: Notebook no 53 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

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Maori notebook (vol 34)

Date: [1956-1957]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-35

Description: Comprises notes on sites and artifacts of Waikanae-Paekakariki area (with map); map, Manawatu River from Longburn Bridge to Oroua confluence; genealogies, no 1, relationaship of Muaupoko to Rangitane, no 2, the branching out of sub-tribes from Rangitane, supplied by Wiremu K Te Awe Awe per G Allwright; map, visit to old Maori site on dune belt, Rangitikei River; artifacts from Papaitonga-Hokio sector of dune-belt (with map); on the archaeology of Kaitaia-Ahipara, North Auckland (with maps); small stone bowling disc, Makara Arrangement: Notebook no 34 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

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Maori notebook (vol 49)

Date: [1960-1963]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-50

Description: Comprises notes; letter, Michael Hitchings to Adkin re results of Hadfield Church excavation; map, Paraparaumu to Waimeha Stream; brief genealogy of Te Rangihiroa; profile, the tino of Rikiorangi site from early map; aerial photograph, Paraparaumu area; map, Paraparaumu Beach area with emendment of Te Uruhi pa site...disinterred presumed Hadfield's church; photograph and diagram of part of Kenakena site...Hadfield's church; photograph with numbered Maori place-names and sites, Porirua Harbour; map, central area, Porirua Harbour, with numbered Maori place-names and sites; draft and final map, head of Pauatahanui Arm showing recent geomorphological changes Arrangement: Notebook no 49 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

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Maori notebook (vol 27)

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).

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Maori place-names of New Zealand (vol 21)

Date: [1950-1957]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-22

Description: Contents comprise notes on adzes and stone bowling-disk from D'Urville Island; lunate pendant amulet from Foveaux Strait coast; whalebone patu from Horowhenua; observations on Sandhill point jaw; ethnological collection from Sandhill Point, Te Waewae Bay, Southland; adze, Sandhill Point; and other notes Arrangement: Notebook no 21 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

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Notebook (vol 23)

Date: [1950-1953]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-24

Description: Contents comprise notes on middens, Porirua Harbour (including map); alternative schemes of the populating of NZ; map of Maori sites, Waikanae- Paraparaumu-Paekakariki; selected items from P Beckett's collection; map showing Waitaha sites; nephrite heimatau from L Horowhenua; Hutt Valley midden; and other notes Arrangement: Notebook no 23 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

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Maori notebook (vol 57)

Date: [1962]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-58

Description: Contents comprise reports on Whitireia Peninsula, Porirua Harbour (with map and profile); and on survey and subdivision on the lower course of the Waikanae River (north side) (ca 1897) (with map) Arrangement: Notebook no 57 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

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Maori notebook (vol 47)

Date: 1960

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-48

Description: Comprises article on the moa hunter as artist and trapper by Hugh S McCully with photographs and letter; maps and notes showing location of middens and adze found at Waikanae; plan of meeting house, Waiwhetu, `Arohanui-ki-te-tangata'; photograph of Wikitoria Puketapu with carved figure; map showing route of excursion around Pauatahanui arm of Porirua Harbour; map, excursion, Paekakariki; sketch plan and prfile, pa-citadel site, Paekakariki; discussion of the term, `Papa-kainga'; photograph and sketch of ancient outrigger float from Pinfold's drained swamp, Soldiers Road, Te Horo, photography and further drawings Arrangement: Notebook no 47 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

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Maori notebook (vol 56)

Date: [1962]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-57

Description: Contents comprise reports on find-spots and data of artefacts, historic sites of the greater Waikanae area, including a record of recent finds between Te Horo and Waikanae to May 1962, including genealogy (with map); thick squat patu from Mangaroa pa, Richard Rolston's collection; unexpected archaeological discoveries, a new type of patu from Horowhenua and a native burial, Welllington, photographs, map and diagrams; selected memoranda from 10th science congress (1962) Arrangement: Notebook no 56 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Online Manuscript

Maori place-names of New Zealand (vol 2)

Date: [1930-1940]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-03

Description: Contents comprise Waikanae area (J D Climie's surveys of 1880 and 1884); Otaki River mouth (Carkeek's survey of 1887); New Zealand (showing Te Rauparaha's and Te Puoho's routes and raids); plan of Manukorihi pa, Waitara; Kaiapohia pa, locality and plan; Manawatu River and Gorge etc (NZ Company's survey of 1842); Lower Wairarapa and Port Nicholson (NZ Company's surveys of 1842); Tararua Range, including Rimutaka Range and southwestern hill system; Hutt Valley; southwestern hill system of Wellington; Oroua and Awahou blocks (J T Stewart's survey, 1860); Horowhenua Lake and vicinity (NZ Co's survey, 1842); list of English place names transliterated into Maori Arrangement: Notebook no 2 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Online Manuscript

Maori place-names of New Zealand (vol 4)

Date: [1930-1940]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-05

Description: Contents comprise Great Island, Three Kings group; Poor Knights Islands; Tuhua (Mayor Island); Waikanae-Reikorangi area; Pa-o-Toata, Waikanae River; Kapiti Island; Otago Harbour and peninsula; Mokau River (mouth and lower reaches and upper course); and Maori adaptations of foreign place names Arrangement: Notebook no 4 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Online Manuscript

Genealogies

Date: [1930-1950]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-01

Description: Twenty-eight tables of genealogy including Taikapurua, Watana Akitu, Te Ahu Karamu, Hone Makimereni, Kingi Puihi (Te Rangiotu), Wiremu Te Aweawe, Winiata and Nicholson families, Hori Wirihana, Ngati Raukawa, Te Hakeke (Ngati Apa), Utiku Hapeta, Major Kemp, Enoka Te Wano, Arapata te Hiwi, Manahi te Hiakai, Waretini Tuainuku, Emily Broughton, meeting houses, Riria Makirika (Sciascia), Kipa Roera, Ngati Tara and Rangitane, Te Ao family, Te Rau-o-te-rangi, Pomare, Te Rauparaha, Parata and Bevan families and loose notes Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Online Manuscript

Maori place-names of New Zealand (vol 9)

Date: [1930-1940]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-10

Description: Contents comprise Otaki-Waikanae area and river (Carkeek's surveys, provincial plan of Horowhenua county, and of Otaki Borough (1925); Waikanae-Pukerua area; plan of Wairaka pa; Porirua Harbour and adjacent coast; sketch of part of Porirua Harbour; plan of Kaitawa kainga; part of coast, Porirua Harbour (Te Neke kainga); Banks Peninsula; Waikanae-Paraparaumu area (1888) Arrangement: Notebook no 9 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

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Maori notebook (vol 58)

Date: [1962]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-59

Description: Comprises reports on the disinterment of native human skeletons at Paraparaumu Beach township from excavation of sand-dune formation near the post office (diagrams of skulls) (with map, profile and photographs); Te Ika-a-maru and Ōhau bays area of western Wellington - further ethnological features and note on drift objects of this coast; groups of unusually- placed storage pits and a large type whakamate on the Kenakena coastal salient...Paraparaumu Beach (with map); memo of human skull, probably late tribal Māori age, from old fixed dunes immediately west of Te Horo; remarkable Waitaha-Ngati Mamoe hybrid adze in blackstone from Tiakitahuna, Palmerston North. Arrangement: Notebook no 58 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Manuscript

Maori place-names of New Zealand (vol 12)

Date: [1930-1940]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-13

Description: Contents comprise sketch plan of Waipatu Island pa, Lake Horowhenua; ponds (?) and umu sites near State Farm Road, sth of Lake Horowhenua; eel storage tank at Matukutuku Lagoon, Horowhenua; Ōtaki area, corrections and additional data, rafter patterns, Raukawa whare-runanga; Tikorangi Stream-Waikawa area, Horowhenua'; canoe baler from Pipinui, Western Wellington, south-western Wellington area; patu washed ashore at Waitarere Beach, Horowhenua; patuki from shore of Lake Horowhenua; Kuku-Poroporo headwaters, Horowhenua; part Horowhenua county; Waikanae-Akatarawa area with place-names etc; middens on northern shore of Lake Horowhenua; Waikawa River mouth, Horowhenua (May 1944); marine mollusca and pumice implements from Waikawa middens Contents also include the identification of Māori archaealogical finds in the Kapiti-Horowhenua districts, including a greenstone hei matau from Waikawa. Arrangement: Notebook no 12 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

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Maori notebook (vol 46)

Date: 1960

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-47

Description: Comprises map of Fitzroy Bay, Baring Head, showing topographic features and former Māori sites; sketch plan, Parangārehu kainga site, Fitzroy Bay; visit to Glendower Station, Ponatahi Rd, Carterton, to inspect J M Jury's ethnological collection, especially his Palliser Bay artefacts; map, excursion to Flat Point, eastern Wairarapa; map, Flat Point-Glenburn Coast and hinterland, east Wairarapa showing archaeological sites and other data, including profile of coastal plain; sketch plan of sites on the Arawhata Stream; sketch profiles of Pukehuiake pā, Whatipū Stream and debouchure of Huatokitoki Stream; sketch profile of Pawharetotara pā site, Waikekeno Stream; osteological features characteristic of and distinguishing between Polynesia and European peoples; Māori lore of the Ōtaki-Paraparaumu sector of the coastal area of western Wellington (a) Māori place-names, sites and geomorphic background of the Ōtaki-Te Horo portion of the coastal lowland; sections of same; map, Rangiuru Creek to Paraparaumu Beach; Arrangement: Notebook no 46 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

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