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Date: September 1960

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0095-F

Description: Scenes at the official opening of the meeting house at Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, photographed in September 1960 by Ans Westra. Includes 3 images of Walter Nash and Eruera Tirikatane being greeted on to the marae with a wero (Maori challenge) by John Rangihau; 4 images of a haka being performed in front of the meeting house; 2 images of Bishop Panapa, with his back to the camera, greeting Nash and Tirikatene; 3 other images. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.

Date: 1960

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0102-F

Description: Young Maori children playing outside, Porirua, 1960. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives were digitised by Suite Tirohana.

Date: September 1960

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0019-F

Description: Scenes at opening of meeting house, Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, photographed in September 1960 by Ans Westra. Frames 4-6 show Taranaki Maori people. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.

Date: [ca 1885]

From: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-020634-G

Description: A photograph of a group at Te Karaka kāinga, facing south towards Te Au a Tāne, taken by Henry Wright circa 1899 to 1910. Rīpeka Te Puni is holding the baby and sitting with Amy Wright under a woven cloak or kaitaka.The two men next to her are thought to be her two brothers Nopera and Atanatiu. The man in the back is Captain William Shilling, Harbour Pilot, and on the right is Amy Wright, daughter of the photographer. People identified from information on page 18 of ‘Motukairangi: Taranaki Whānui kiTe Upoko o Te Ika, Cultural Safety Report’, 2020 https://www.linz.govt.nz/sites/default/files/culturalsafetyaudit_-_motukairangi_-_taranaki_whaanui_cultural_safety_report_2020.pdf. Accessed 13 September 2023. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: Title changed and people identified following information from staff member, 13 September 2023.

Date: September 1960

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0025-F

Description: Scenes taken while waiting for the evening meal, at the opening of the meeting house, Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt. Photographed in September 1960 by Ans Westra. Shows an elderly couple and Waihirere Kapa Haka group performing an action song. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.

Date: 1879

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

By: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936

Reference: 1/4-009027-F

Description: Whare at Karaka Bay, Wellington, in 1879. Photograph taken by Henry Wright. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Stack, James West (Rev), 1835-1919

Reference: A-210-003

Description: Shows tent on beach, groups of Maori with two canoes with sails, boats and ships in the harbour. Probably Wellington Harbour from the Hutt Road or Petone in the 1850s looking towards the twown of Wellington. Attributed to Fox on stylistic grounds, along with A-210-008 and A-210-009. The figures in the foreground and the manner of rendering choppy sea are very typical of Fox's work Displayed in "Paradise" (Gifts to the nation), National Library Gallery, January - April 2005. Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Other Titles - Unidentified view of beach and harbour [former title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 255 mm. Provenance: Collection of James West Stack. Possibly given to Stack by Fox when Stack visited Westoe, Fox's home, late summer 1861. Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts and Archives, from fMS Stack, J. W. Papers and pictures, 1970s.

Date: 1839

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-0011-02-2

Description: Te Puni standing, with full facial moko, clad in a dogskin cloak and holding a taiaha in his right hand. Behind him is Wellington Harbour with two Maori by the shore to the left, and Petone Pa, a canoe and a flagpole with the New Zealand Company flag on the right. The western Hutt hills are in the background. Accompanying text reads: These two chiefs sold the site of the present Wellington Settlement to Colonel Wakefield, the Principal Agent of the New Zealand Company, in September 1839... Epuni is the uncle of Warepori. Under the same unfavourable circumstances as his nephew, he has nobly deserved the name of "a true gentleman." He still lives at the village of Pitone, loved and respected by the English inhabitants of all ranks. These portraits were drawn at the time of the purchase in 1839... the village of Pitone and the flag-staff at the foot of which Colonel Wakefield took formal possession, appear in the back-ground. Other Titles - Te Puni Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 247 x 172 mm on sheet 350 x 544 mm

Date: September 1960

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0014-F

Description: Maori at the Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, before the opening of the meeting house, photographed in 1960 by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1846 - 1951

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962

Reference: A-173-035

Description: The stone Paremata Redoubt, with its two towers, surrounded by a yard with a picket fence. A ship visible in Porirua Harbour in the background and soldiers standing in line to attention, with tents in the distance. By the gate in the foreground, a Maori woman is selling produce to a group of soldiers, while another man with fish in a kete, and a woman with potatoes await their turn. Two civilians watch the proceedings from the right, one smoking a pipe. Drawn from descriptions provided by James Cowan The remains of this fort still stand in the Ngati Toa Domain, at Mana, just north of Porirua City Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Grey wash, 242 x 316 mm

Date: September 1960

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0013-F

Description: Groups, primarily of Maori women from Taranaki, at Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, before the opening of the meeting house. Taken in 1960 by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.

Date: Aug-Nov 1841

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Gollan, Donald, 1811-1887

Reference: MSDL-1259

Description: Gollan describes his feelings on leaving Scotland, his family and friends; voyage to Wellington, New Zealand on the `Clydeside' from Greenock via Adelaide (with refrence to fellow male passengers); short period spent in Adelaide en route; impressions of the settlement and aborigines; arrival in Wellington; European settlers; business opportunities; resident Maori (makes reference to cannibalism) Accompanying material - Typed transcript done by M Donaldson, 2007 The letter addressed to his friend John G Grieve of Whitsome, Dunse, Berwickshire was begun on board the Clydeshire on 16 Aug and resumed once he reached Port Nicholson on 8 Nov 1841. It was postmarked Dunse, 25 Mar 1842. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: Part of SBDD (shipboard diary digitisation) project

Date: Early 1900s to 1931

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

Reference: PA1-q-002

Description: Maori place names and old historical sites of Horowhenua (Vol. 1, images 1-146). Album includes maps, diagrams & sketches, and black & white photographs. Views include Paremata Redoubt, Lake Horowhenua, carved pātaka at Papaitonga Pā. Views of Komokorau, the burial place of Mua-Upoko chiefs including Chief Mahuera Paki Tanguru-o-te-rangi; Lake Wai-tawa and Te Moutere (formerly a fortified island pā). Place names & historic features of Kapiti Island, including relics of whaling days at Wharekohu Bay showing ruins of stone house, stone walls and a stone-embanked stream channel, burial caves, Waiorua Valley showing the approximate site of Te Rauparaha's principal pā, and Motungārara Island where there was a subsidiary pā of Te Rauparaha. Ōtaki, Rangiātea Church (1925); carved whare at Puke-Karaka; Ōtaki Jubilee Pole; and old meeting house Uawhaki at Waikawa. The site of the old Māori flour-mill on the Waitarere Stream at Poroutawhao, which was built in 1853 or 1854 under the direction of a French priest. Several images of performers competing in the haka and poi competitions at Shannon, 2 January 1928. Images of Pākehā pioneers of Horowhenua (Hector McDonald and his wife Agnes (nee Carmont)), and a photograph of Rora Hakaraia, daughter of Mua-Upoko chief Tanguru, and sister of Te Rangihiwinui (also known as Taitoko, and later as Te Keepa or Major Kemp). The photograph of Rora Hakaraia was taken from a painting in the possession of Rod A. McDonald of Levin. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: September 1960

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0130-F

Description: Scenes at opening of meeting house, Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, photographed in September 1960 by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation information - Digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: Summer 1959-1960

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0008-F

Description: Scenes at Carterton A&P show, photographed in the summer of 1959-1960 by Ans Westra. Also first two frames show a group performing a Maori action song, possibly at a wedding in Otaki. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1962

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0138-F

Description: Images of Henare Gilbert and his family, in the living room of their home in Stokes Valley in 1962. Includes photographs of his wife Gabriella, daughter Oana and son Tui. Also includes images of the children on a rocking horse. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 8 images.

Date: 1910

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-356-013

Description: Shows a raupo hut on the water's edge, with a view of an offshore island (probably Kapiti Island) in the distance. Te Rauparaha died at Otaki in 1849, so the location is likely to be there, with Kapiti Island in the distance. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, impression 134 x 180 mm, on sheet 235 x 282 mm.

Date: 1960

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0015-F

Description: Maori women and children in the kitchen at Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, photographed in 1960 by Ans Westra. Shows a Betty Rei with a child on her lap; children playing; Una Epae, Miriama Morgan and Rongo Rangiwhetu playing cards etc. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1940

From: Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986 :Collection of prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-036226-F

Description: Unidentified Maori group performing at one of the sound shells during the 1940 Centennial Exhibition in Rongotai, Wellington. Photographed by Eileen Deste in 1940 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1961

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0089-F

Description: Scenes at the wedding of Eleanor Puketapu to Rangi Hetet at Waiwhetu Marae in 1961 and scenes at the Wellington District Maori Anglican Hui Aroha, at Solway Showgrounds, Masterton in 1961. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Includes 8 images at the wedding including 3 images of the bride and bridesmaid (Wikitoria Puketapu) and flower girl (Maria Winitana) and 6 images of an unidentified group of young Maori men singing while one plays guitar. Includes 4 images at the Hui Aroha, 1 image of an unidentified Maori group; 2 images of unidentified Maori men men preparing a hangi pit; 1 of an unidentified Maori woman. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives were digitised by Suite Tirohanga.