Places

Date: [ca 1903]

By: Rowntree, William Walter, 1873?-1945; Rowntree, John Burgess, 1906-1986

Reference: PA1-o-442

Description: Album of photographs taken by W W Rowntree. They cover a journey between Wairoa and Taupo, travelling on foot with a packhorse, and with two companions between Taihape and Wairoa. The album includes two envelopes with loose photographs, one contains one photograph of a Maori family seated on the ground in front of a thatched building, and the other contains four photographs entitled "Waikaremoana" in pencil on the envelope. Three of these show groups of Maori, and one shows the lake. A handwritten slip inserted in the front of the album gives the following information: "The exact location of Maori homes not known. Note storehouse in actual use; totara bark (?); thatch (in loose photo); Mokau Falls; track at Hopuruahine Bluffs; men's dress (one man wearing a waistcoat with fob watch chain, p 16); Maori boy holding a camera; Earthquake Gully; a road around a lake; Crow's Nest Geyser etc" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, embossed title which reads `Photographs'; 16 x 18 cm Provenance: Donated by John Rowntree, Auckland

Date: ca 1950s-1960s

By: Robin Smith Photography Ltd

Reference: PAColl-0530

Description: Set of photographs of work and leisure in New Zealand, the majority of cattle and sheep mustering and skiing but including a woman water skiing, a woman painting a vase of flowers in oils, a Maori man carving wood, portraits of individual Maori, a procedure in the wine making process, men in the oyster fishing industry, a woman testing eggs, a man looking up at a tree with a chain saw etc. Photographer was Robin Smith. Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1844

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

Reference: A-020-001

Description: Shows a Maori child squatting in front of a fence, a woman and two other children beyond it. In the foreground is a carved memorial post. The scene is probably at Waitahanui Pa at Lake Taupo Angas' reference to 'stile' may possibly be intended to read 'stele' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 240 x 165 mm

By: Ingle, Melton Allan, active 1967

Reference: PAColl-4426

Description: Photographs of thermoactivity at Wairakei; Burton Brothers photographs; Maori men, women, and children; and an unidentified house. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Memorial to Laura Flavell (Eph-B-FUNERAL-1894-01) - Print at PAColl-5671-19.

Date: [ca 1890s-1900s]

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: PAColl-D-1044

Description: Photograph of two Maori women and their six children, the youngest, a toddler and eldest girl possibly ten to twelve years of age. All dressed in European clothing. Taken by an unidentified photographer on the front verandah of the Te Whaiti homestead `Te Karearea' in Greytown. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 505 x 365 mm on mount 705 x 540 mm

Date: [Between 1912 and 1918]

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: PAColl-D-1051

Description: Photograph taken on the verandah of the Te Whaiti homestead `Te Karearea', Greytown of Iraia and Kaihau Te Whaiti with their children and grandchildren, the youngest a baby of about three months. Inscriptions: Verso - Iraia Te Whaiti, West Street, Greytown Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 263 x 365 mm with mount 465 x 560 mm

Date: 1848

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-034

Description: View inside Taupo Pa, at Plimmerton looking out to sea with part of Mana Island out to sea on the right and the South Island in the distance. The palisades of the pa run down to the water's edge on the left, with a raupo whare propped against the fence line. A Maori family (father, mother with a child on her back and a toddler at her side) is walking away from the viewer, and three armed Maori are seated or reclining in the centre foreground, beside a cabbage tree or dracena plant. 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. Ngati Toa built Taupo Pa probably in the late 1830s or 1840s. According to land court evidence by Wi Parata most of Ngati Kimihia were resident in the South Island until the Wairau Affair in 1843. Wi Parata lived at Taupo with his uncle Te Hiko-o-te-Rangi and the Ngati Te Maunu until his death in 1845, where Te Rauparaha made a speech relating to Taupo stating that it formerly belonged to Te Hiko and was later acquired by Te Rauparaha. Other Titles - Te Rangihaeata Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in ink in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 255 mm. Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 10x8-1725-G

Description: Group photograph taken outdoors of Maori men, women and children, who are very likely all related. They are dressed in European clothing; some are wrapped in blankets. Two older men are sitting on the ground in the front. Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington, ca 1900, probably in the Wanganui district. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 65 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches, between glass

Date: 1860 - 1869

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-154-2

Description: A Maori family group (two men, two women, a baby in arms, a child and two others of indeterminate age and sex) outside a small wooden cottage with thatched roof, a wooden chimney to the left. Most are wearing European clothing although the two seated figures on the left may be wearing cloaks. Other Titles - Stewart Island Quantity: 1 photograph(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Photograph (albumen print), 69 x 91 mm