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Date: [1880s-1900s?]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Iles, James, active 1878; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-518

Description: Includes photographs of Maori artefacts in museum context. Possibly created by James Edge-Partington, an anthropologist who studied artefacts in New Zealand and the Pacific. This volume is in the same style of album, with similar photographs and articles as Webster album 4 (PA1-o-519) which has Edge-Partington's named bookplate inside the front cover. Studies of a variety of artefacts including an instrument giving a decoy call for kiwi; a sea leopard's tooth carved and worn as a pendant (from Stewart Island); whale teeth pendants; weapons; tools; carved waka, prows of waka; carved meeting houses; Te Kooti's house "Te Waho"; carved storehouses; a Maori kite; eel traps and fish hooks. The artefacts are from various collections in New Zealand and overseas, including the Chapman Collection, the Hamilton Collection, the Hocken Collection and General Robley's Collection. Cuttings from articles written by James Edge-Partington from anthropological journals are inserted in the album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Abum with dark grey cover; 26 x 21 cm

Date: 1864

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: E-372-f-033

Description: Page from the Illustrated London news with sketches of 10 weapons - 1. Small tomahawk (patiti), used for hand-to-hand fighting; 2. Cartouche-box (hamanu) to carry eighteen rounds; 3. Greenstone club or mere, otherwise called poenamu, which is the baton of a chief; 4. Whale bone mere, called papaoa, carried by a band round the neck; 5. Spear (tao) either of hard wood sharpened or with an iron point or a bayonet fixed at the end; 6. Long tomahawk (kakanroa) for thrusting or cutting in a hand-to-hand fight; also used to walk with; 7. Guns (Pu) which are mostly percussion muskets and many were also found which had been taken from our men; 8. A chief's spear (taiaha) ornamented with the breast feathers of the brown parrots; 9. Bayonet (peniti); 10. Club (wahaika) made of hard wood or whalebone and used either to thrust with the small point or to strike with the axelike head. Drawings attributed to Lieutenant Robley of the 68th Light Infantry. Includes article entitled `The war in New Zealand' Other Titles - Arms taken from the Maoris at Te Ranga, New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 380 x 250 mm

Date: [Between 1903 and 1906]

By: Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959; New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts

Reference: PA1-o-321

Description: Album of scenic photographs, chiefly taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, with views of the North Island and South Island. North Island scenes include a number of tourist views of Maori, showing carved meeting houses; a group performing a haka; two women demonstrating the hongi; a young woman wearing a feather cloak, hei tiki and huia feathers, and holding a mere; a group of young boys in a haka pose; a woman smoking a pipe; a group of children bathing in a hot pool at Ohinemutu; and Mr. Nelson's carved house at Whakarewarewa. Other North Island scenes show Mount Taranaki, the Auckland wharves, Lake Waikaremoana, and a man fishing at the Ohau Channel, Rotorua. South Island views cover Lakes Wakatipu, Manapouri and Te Anau; the Tasman Glacier; peaks in the Southern Alps; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; a team of four horses with a laden Cobb & Co coach on a ferry, crossing the Mangahua [i.e. Inangahua] River, the Lyell River Bridge and Hawks Crag, all in the Buller Gorge. The last few images are exterior and interior views of the Dunedin Railway Station soon after it was finished in 1906. Inscriptions: Album page - John T. Mair, Wellington, New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cover, entitled `Photographs' lettered in gold; 26.0 x 31.5 cm

Date: [194-]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Papers and diaries

Reference: MS-Papers-0261-01/7-01

Description: The patu was discovered by R Gettins washed up on the shore of Lake Horowhenua in 1931 and led to the discovery of further artifacts on the bed of the lake. This photograph featured as Plate 5 in Adkin's book "Horowhenua", published in 1948; text on pages 91-92 discusses its discovery and significance. The patu was photographed by Adkin. George Leslie Adkin was a Wellington farmer, geologist, archaeologist, ethnologist and photographer. Quantity: 1 photograph. Physical Description: Black and white print

Date: 1844

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

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-034-1

Description: An elderly woman, wrapped in a flax cloak, squatting in front of the palisades of a pa at Pouketuti (Puketutu), top left. Two canoe paddles with elaborate carving to the left and right. In the centre, a squatting child and to the right a carved mere with feathers at the handle, from Taupo. Angas was in the Puketutu area in mid-October 1844 and at Taupo in late October - early November. Original sketches for lithographs in: Angas, G.F. "New Zealanders Illustrated", Plate LV, no 14, p24; Plate XLII, nos 4 & 5, p96; Plate XXXIX, no 12, p89; Plate LVIII, No. 10, p130. Acquired before 1941 Quantity: 5 drawing(s) (on one sheet). Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 315 x 260 mm

Date: 1831 - 1937 - 1939

By: Downes, Thomas William, 1868-1938; Bathgate, Charles McLelland, 1893-1970

Reference: A-076-023

Description: Shows Powers lying in boat in right foreground, while some of a group of six natives ties one of his three companions to a pole. One threatens towards the tied man with a mere. There is a campfire and a kete lies on the ground. Features Andrew Powers, one of the first white men to see Lake Taupo. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 209 x 308 mm.

Date: 1846

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902; Te Whiwhi, Hēnare Mātene, -1881

Reference: A-292-034

Description: A range of weapons and implements, those on the left probably drawn by T. B. Collinson, those in the centre and to the right by Matene te Whiwhi. The weapons include a taiaha (spear), a mere and a patu (clubs) and variant forms of mere as well as hoes and spades and axes and digging sticks (ko).. Extended Title - Taiaha Kura - Spear, Patu - Club, Meri (Mere) Pounamu - Greenstone Club, Paiaka - Weapon made from the root of the tree, Mere Kotiate - Lobed Club, Kororariki - Stone used to make weapons, He poto kerikeri wenua, a short land cultivating implement, Kumara - Utensil used for cultivating kumara, Taewaa - Utensil used for cultivating root vegetables, Tata - Spade utensil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1844 - 1847

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

By: Giles, John West, 1801-1870; Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: PUBL-0014-58

Description: A group of pictures with accompanying text as follows: 1.[Top centre] A richly carved adze with a greenstone head, ornamented with dogs' hair and kaka feathers; from the Middle [South] Island. 2. [Top left]. Tomahawk with a European head and a handle of carved bone. 3. [Top right] Tomahawk belonging to Pomara, the Chatham Island chief. 4. [Top right] A wooden dagger. From the interior, near Tuhua. 5, 6 & 7. [Far left]: E Hani - a staff of hard wood [taiaha]...The head is carved. 8. [Lower right] Patu. 9. Warriors preparing for battle [including thigh and buttock tattooing]No.s 10-14 not annotated, but they show 2 mere, a detail of a war-gong, a club and the striking of the war-gong. This final image is derived from a drawing by Joseph Jenner Merrett, as is the view of the warriors preparing for battle. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Angas' preliminary drawing for no. 10 is located at A-020-034 with title 'Meri-meri [i. e. mere] of Taupo'. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm

Date: [ca 1905]

From: Brooke-Taylor, Arthur Howard, 1900-1975:Photographs of Mataatua, Gisborne and Atiamuri

By: Neale, William Augustus, 1852?-1930

Reference: PAColl-1767-2

Description: Group on the step of Te Whai-a-te-Motu meeting house at Mataatua. From left to right: Hurae Puketapu, Te Kopa and her husband Te Huatahi. Shows them standing in front of carved wooden poupou. They each wear cloaks, and feathers in their hair. Puketapu holds a taiaha (spear). Te Kopa holds a toki (adze). Te Huatahi is wielding a patu (club). Photograph taken circa 1905 by W A Neale. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10.6 x 14.1 cm

Date: 1931-1934

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

By: Law, Dora Isabel, 1894-1982

Reference: PA1-f-009

Description: The Maori place names and old historical sites of Horowhenua together with a pictorial record of Maori artifacts and customs. Also place names etc elsewhere in New Zealand (Vol 1, figures 147-334). Includes maps and diagrams. Images show eel weirs and traps in the Hokio Stream; stake-fields in Lake Horowhenua which were constructed by Maori to impede enemy canoes, and which were exposed above water level by the lowering of the lake in 1926; artifacts in various collections, including kumete, waka-huia, stone adzes etc.; views of the Takihiku meeting house belonging to the former pa called Pua-o-Tau (figs 198-202); porch of Poutu meeting house at Whakawehi kainga near Shannon (fig 204); site of Pakakutu Pa, Otaki; site of the Wairarawa Maori burial area where artifacts were found by Arthur Black in Feb 1932 (figs 210, 213, 223-224); carved meeting house Te Poho-o-Kahungunu at Porangahau (fig 233); funeral ceremonies on 17 April 1932, after the death of Hema Te Ao, at Raukawa meeting house (undergoing reconstruction at the time) and Rangiatea Church, service taken by Rev. Temuera Tokoaitua, funeral procession through Otaki, preparations for hangi; Titahi Bay; site of the former Korohiwa Pa; copy of a picture of Wellington Harbour by T Allom, showing place names and former Maroi sites; sites and place names along the Paekakariki-Pukerua Bay coast; sites & features at Titahi Bay, Whitireia Peninsula & Porirua Harbour.