Places

Date: 1847 - 1828

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

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

Reference: C-103-025-2

Description: A huge wooden carving of head and neck, surrounded by a ring of stones, in a bare landscape. The top of the head is damaged, probably by weather. A Maori is standing to the left One of 9 small drawings on this sheet Te Namu is in South Taranaki near Opunake. Other Titles - New Plymouth, about Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink, 80 x 110 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-0014-46

Description: 1. [Centre]: 'The celebrated image of Rangihaeata carved by himself. This forms the lower portion of the central pillar, supporting the roof of Rangihaeata's house on the Island of Mana, called 'Kai-Tangata'...The image is about 4 feet high'. 2 [Centre right]: Stern-post of a large canoe from the River Thames. 3. [Top]: 'Papa' a carved box for the reception of the tail feathers of the huia ... 4. [bottom]: Another box for similar purposes ... 5. [Above the image of Rangihaeata] Head of a carved wooden spear about 12 feet long from the Ngatiawa tribe. 6. [Left]: Raised stand for supporting tapued articles consecrated to the dead. Found at Waitahanui Pa, Lake Taupo. 7. [Below the image of Rangihaeata]: A sketch in Port Nicholson Harbour [a man poling himself along in a small canoe] Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm

Date: 1825 - 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

Reference: C-082-089

Description: Original for engraving by Tardieu (C-082-085) for Duperrey, L I Voyage autour du monde ... Paris 1826 Plate 41. See also entry under Lejeune for non-New Zealand material in this collection. See also Sharp, C A Duperrey's visit to New Zealand in 1824 Wellington, 1971 Previously attributed to Duperrey because of the pencil inscription of his name on the lower left of the image. However the image is also signed A. Chazal and the reference to Duperrey may have been added by a later hand.. Other Titles - New Zealand. House of the natives. Plan of this house. Tomb. Idol. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - A. Chazal [in faint pencil below the left leg of the lower right-hand carved figure]. Duperrey [inscribed in pencil, lower left]. No 41 [in pencil upper right]. Noule Zealande [in ink above image] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 197 x 126 mm

Date: 1844

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

Reference: A-020-018

Description: A fenced structure set in a bush clearing. The structure has elaborately carved and painted posts and a cross beam at the front and a carved lean-to structure behind. Taller posts can be seen in the distance. The drawing is unfinished and mostly pencil, with watercolour only on the carved sections of the mausoleum Carved by Te Rangihaeata (Ngati Toa) on the death of his mother Waitohi, the elder sister of Te Rauparaha, to house her remains. Original sketch for lithograph with the same title in: Angas, G. F., The New Zealanders Illustrated, Plate 50, p.114 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 182 x 309 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-0014-10

Description: Shows intricately carved wooden mausoleum (papatupapaku), about twelve or fourteen feet high, in which the body would have been placed upright. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Other Titles - Pa Other Titles - Te Wherowhero's favourite daughter Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured, 345 x 230 mm.

Date: 1825 - 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854

Reference: C-082-085

Description: A Maori greenstone axe with carved wooden handle, a greenstone patu, a shark's tooth earring, a carved wooden flute and a large bone and flax-bound fish-hook. The text in French beside the earring continues 'et a laquelle ils attachent les idees les plus superstitieuses, les femmes l'en servent pour se dechirer le visage dans leurs ceremonies de deuil" (Translation: and to which they attach the most superstitious ideas, the women use them to cut their faces in their mourning ceremonies). The text alongside the flute marks "A. Ouverture. B. tres petit trou" (Translation: A. aperture. B. Very small hole [at the end of the flute]). Likely to have been drawn by Chazal from specimens brought back to France from Duperrey's visit to the Bay of Islands in 1824. Other Titles - New Zealand. Toki (axe). Patu patu. Marine fish tooth which the New Zealanders wear hanging from their ear. Native fish hook. Inscriptions: Recto - ink inscriptions beside each item Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 303 x 228 mm