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Date: 1844

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

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-031-1

Description: Two women seated and weaving, their work stretched on on sticks on the ground. Kete hanging from the walls of the whare and food parcels hanging down from the ceiling, along with a large bundle of dried flax. A small fire burns outside the whare. The pa is almost certainly Taupo Pa at Plimmerton, visited by the artist in September 1844 and drawn on the other side of this sheet of paper. Original sketch for a lithograph reproduced in G. F. Angas' The New Zealanders illustrated, (Plate 59) under the title Domestic economy - women making mats etc. Interior of a house at Rangihireta's Pah. Other Titles - Te Rangihaeata, Taupo Pa. Rangihireta's Pah Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 348 x 249 mm

Date: 1844

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-016-1

Description: View from near the mouth of the Otaki River, looking inland towards the hills. A Maori man wrapped in a cloak stands on the bank to the left. On the verso is a set of small drawings including untitled trees in landscapes; a house with gables ('A gabley house') and two drawings of young Maori women, one titled 'N. Z. awful [?] girl with her eyes out.' This woman is shown with moko on her chin, a scarf over her head and the outlining of her eyes gone over in pencil several times The reverse is photographed as negative 1/2-069628 and file print dfp-012880 under title N. Z. girl ... Other Titles - From the Akewood [Oak wood?, Akeake wood?] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 127 x 215 mm

Date: 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-114-028

Description: Three Maori women, E Rua seated on the left, wrapped in a cloak, E Pari standing, also in a cloak and E Hoki standing on the right, wrapped in a pink blanket and wearing a blue necklace. Original for lithograph by J W Giles in The New Zealanders Illustrated. Plate 13 p 34 (London 1847) Other Titles - Ngati Toa Cook Strait Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 332 x 243 mm

Date: 1847 - 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: C-170-002

Description: Shows 14 views of Maori domestic life, including tools, clothing and household receptacles. Accompanying page of text (C-170-002-1) lists the numbered items as follows: 1. Mode of fishing with nets on Lake Taupo: the fish, which are still small, are caught in a seine with very fine meshes, and a pole about 20 feet long, with tufts of grass fastened at the end, to drive the fish into the net. 2. A fishing weir, or eel pah, on the river Mokau. 3. Wooden fish-hook. 4. Fish-hook generally in use, made of wood, with a layer of pawa [i.e. paua], or pearl shell (Haliotis), and the hook formed of human bone. A feather of the kivi kivi (Apteryx Australis) is fastened at the extremity. The lines are of flax and, as these hooks dangle astern of the canoes, the glittering appearance of the pawa attracts the fish. 5. Kupenga, or eel trap, formed of twigs, from Mokau. 6. Ko, a wooden spade, for rooting up ferns, and preparing the ground for plantations. 7. A pestle for beating flax, formed of volcanic trap. 8. Wooden flute, one of the orifices of which is tattooed to resemble the lips of a woman. 9. Bark bucket, and calabashes for holding water: the orifices of these latter are also tattooed in a similar manner. 10. Ornamented flax basket for household purposes. 11. E kumeti, ancient wooden bowl for kumeras, from the deserted pah of Otawhao, near Waipa, eight feet in circumference. 12. and 13. Flax sandals from Otago, in the Southern Island. 14. Portrait of an aged slave woman, at Pouketouto, in the interior, beyond Mokau Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Other Titles - and Extended Title - From: Angas, George French. The New Zealanders illustrated (London; Thomas M'Lean No. 26 Haymarket, 1847). Plate 57 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) (14 images on one page). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 455 x 310 mm, on sheet 545 x 365 mm Provenance: Purchase: Cordy's antique and art auction, Auckland, 21 May 2013; lot 665

Date: 1844 - 1847

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Hawkins, Frances Louisa, -1884; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-215-005

Description: Part of a lithograph showing a Maori woman and her daughter in front of a palisade and part of a whare at Porirua Pa, north of Wellington. The edges, including the printed title, have been cropped off One of two mutilated lithographs by Giles after drawings by Angas for the latter's New Zealanders illustrated, London, 1867. Plate 20 (E Pori E Rangi Wawa) and plate 49 (Typical portraits of the New Zealanders), the latter located at A-215-006 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured lithograph, 248 x 213 mm Provenance: Had previously been in the collection of K. A. Webster

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

Date: 1844 - 1847

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

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: PUBL-0014-37

Description: A seated Maori couple with a background of a carved whare. The man, To Ngaporutu has a moko and is wearing a greenstone earring and a flax leaf rain cloak. His wife, seated on his right, is in a woven flax korowai cloak and has an albatross feather ear adornment. She has a chin moko and crosses marked on her cheek and forehead. The pair were residents of the Waitomo area, with Rihe coming from the Wanganui area. Both were recent converts to Christianity. On the right side, another seated man and woman, of Waikato, ther man "Ngawhea" from the Kawhia area had not been converted to Christianity; the woman, Nga Miho was a 'celebrated priestess, and wife of Rangitautaea, the old chief of Ahuahu, who was wounded at Taranaki'. The woman is wearing a blanket, the man a flax rain cloak. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844. According to Angas's text, Nga Miho means 'the teeth'. However the usual Maori word for teeth is niho. Other Titles - Ngati Maniapoto Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm

Date: 1844 - 1847

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

By: Hawkins, Frances Louisa, -1884

Reference: PUBL-0014-TP

Description: Title-page with title and author's name decoratively inscribed around the structure of a pataka. On the left are the palisades of a pa, on the right a carved figure. Below the pataka are a standing Maori woman, a reclining man, two pigs, a food-bowl and the carved stern of a canoe. The man and woman are in full Maori costume with cloaks, feather ornaments and a tiki round the woman's neck. The background scene appears to be a detail from Angas' lithograph of Te Heuheu's pa at Lake Taupo. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) in publication.. Physical Description: Hand-coloured lithograph, 500 x 355 mm

Date: 1844, 1848

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Fletcher, James Muir Cameron (Sir), 1914-2007; Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898

Reference: C-012-007

Description: Watercolour by Charles Heaphy. Shows a young Māori woman, Meri Wikitoria Makarini of Massacre Bay. She is smiling gently, and is seated on the ground with her legs to one side. She is barebreasted with a cloak or rug covering her lower torso and legs except for the lower right leg. Meri Makarini was the granddaughter of Henare Te Keha, and the daughter of Wikitoria te Amohau and Fritz of Bremen (information from Tuckett correspondence, 12 April 1843 in Hocken Library's MS-0156, page 195?). She was baptised by Samuel Ironside on 15 January 1843. Parawhakaoho Pa (spelled on Heaphy's similar work in the British Library as Parawakao) was reportedly close to Collingwood (source of information unknown). Heaphy's very similar portrait in the British Library is dated 1844, so it seems likely that the work depicts the subject in about 1844, despite the date of 1848. In addition, Heaphy had land in the Motueka area, relatively close to Golden Bay, between December 1842 and 1845. However, in early 1848 he worked to re-establish the boundaries of native reserves allocated at Motueka and Golden Bay and may have met Meri Wikitoria a second time, making a copy of his earlier portrait. Title transcribed from item. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Charles Heaphy / 1848 This portrait is very similar to another in the British Library Add MS 19954, Folio 58 (68), titled "Meri Wikitoria [Meri Makarini] (a half cast) of Parawakao, Massacre Bay". Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 365 x 288 mm. Provenance: Previously from the collection of Sir James and Lady Fletcher who purchased it from John Leech Gallery in 2005. Previously owned by a Paris dealer, who acquired this work and four others by Heaphy and Francis Dillon Bell at a French country sale. Possibly originally owned by Francis Dillon Bell. The Library has acquired three other works from the collection, purchased 2006 and 2014, reference numbers C-025-025, C-173-001 and C-173-002. The 5th work, a panorama of New Plymouth by Bell is in Puke Ariki. Processing information: Description updated 30 August 2023 following information provided by a staff member.

Date: 1844

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-002-4

Description: A composite landscape view, partially from the sea, showing Kapiti Island viewed from the west and looking towards the Tararua Range; also Mount Taranaki and Mounts Ruapehu and Tongariro seen from the sea, as well as a view from Otaki Beach looking north along the beach towards Ohau. On the bottom half of the two pages are drawings of people, both European and Maori, including one woman identified as Mata (Martha) and a man identified as Rangiataina. Another figure is a missionary, another a man in a top hat Quantity: 2 drawing(s) comprising one spread. Physical Description: Ink & wash, 126 x 216 and 126 x 216 mm

Date: 1844 - 1847

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

By: Hawkins, Benjamin Waterhouse, 1807-1894

Reference: PUBL-0014-09

Description: A seated Maori woman wrapped in a blanket (E Wai inscribed beneath her) to the left of a standing Maori woman in a flax cloak. Behind the women is the Wellington Harbour, with part of Te Aro Pa (pallisades and a house) to the left. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844. Rakapa Kahoki is the daughter of Te Rangi Topeora and Te Wehi-o-te-Rangi of Te Arawa, and niece of Te Rangihaeata. She later married Petera Te Pukuatua also of Te Arawa (Ngati Whakaue). E Wai is thought by some to be Te Wainokenoke, however this is highly unlikely as Te Wainokenoke is shown in another Angas picture with her husband Nohorua (or Tom Street) as a much older woman. This is probably Te Waitaoro who later married the whaler James Cootes. She was closely related to Te Rauparaha, her father Te Poa was Rauparaha's childhood friend, and two of her daughters were later married to Te Rauparaha's great grandson Wineera Te Kanae. Other Titles - Te Wai Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm

Date: 1844

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-025

Description: Buildings shown are the whaling station at Te Kopi, Palliser Bay. See similar view, with title, reproduced in McArthur's auction catalogue for sale 4 August 1987, lot 52. Shows a high rock, being climbed by three Pakeha men, on the right, a cluster of several low buildings near the shore and a path through low scrub in the foreground. A Maori woman [?] is walking away from the viewer and further along the path is a European man and another person. Date of 1844 is suggested because Brees' watercolour entitled Cape Palliser is dated 1844, and this view is likely to have been taken on the same exploratory trip. There are faint map outlines in pencil on the verso. Other Titles - Whaling station, Te Kopi, Palliser Bay, 1844? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in brushpoint Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 223 x 378 mm

Date: 1844

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

Reference: A-020-020

Description: Steam rising from springs on a hillside. Three Maori seated part way up the hill. On 26 October 1844 Angas was at the southern edge of Lake Taupo and the scene is probably at Tokaanu Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 338 x 232 mm

Date: 1844

By: Baxter, George, 1804-1867

Reference: B-088-004-a

Description: Shows ship the ship Triton offshore on the left, with a Maori canoe and a rowboat approaching the shore. Mr Creed is in the rowboat while Mrs Creed is being carried onto the beach on the shoulders of a group of Maori women. The Rev Waterhouse stands on shore, gesturing and surrounded by a large crowd of gesticulating Maori. Tree ferns and dense bush arise close to the shore and Mount Taranaki is in the background to the north State: hand-coloured and trimmed close to image Other: As Baxter never visited New Zealand there are several inaccuracies in the view, including the shape of Mount Taranaki and its position relative to the landing-spot. The landing was in New Plymouth, not on the coast south of the mountain as shown here. Several plants are more tropical in style than they should be, especially the broad-leafed low plants in the left foreground, probably supposed to represent flax. The shape of Mount Taranaki is likely to be based on Charles Heaphy's early pictorial representations. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured Baxter print 292 x 394 mm

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: 1844

By: Baxter, George, 1804-1867; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Osborne, Mona Martha, -1955; Brown, Charles Carlino, 1820-1901

Reference: B-088-004

Description: Shows the ship Triton offshore with a Maori canoe and a rowboat approaching the shore. Mr Creed is in the rowboat while Mrs Creed is being carried onto the beach on the shoulders of a group of Maori women. The Rev. Waterhouse stands on shore, gesturing and surrounded by a large crowd of gesticulating Maori. Tree ferns and dense bush arise close to the shore and Mount Taranaki is in the background to the north. As Baxter never visited New Zealand there are several inaccuracies in the view, including the shape of Mount Taranaki and its position relative to the landing spot, which was in New Plymouth, not on the coast south of the mountain as shown here. Several plants are more tropical in style than they should be, especially the broad leafed low plants in the left foreground, which are probably supposed to be flax. The shape of Mt Taranaki is likely to be based on Charles Heaphy's early pictorial records, or on engravings after his drawings Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured Baxter print 292 x 394 mm

Date: 1844 - 1847

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

By: Giles, John West, 1801-1870

Reference: PUBL-0014-27

Description: Shows a double portrait of the chief standing, and his wife seated beside him in the ground. Mungakahu holds a hani (staff with a carved head and tongue), ornamented with parrot's feathers and pieces of dog skin, in his right hand, and is dressed in a black and yellow checked kakahu (flax cloak) with a blanket underneath it. He has facial moko. Ko Mari wears a feather earring in her left ear, has a moko on her chin, and wears a tiki and a woven cloak. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured, 347 x 250 mm.