Places

Date: 1835

From: Yate, William, 1802-1877 :An account of New Zealand; and of the formation and progress of the Church Missionary Society's position in the northern island. London, Seeley & Burnside, 1835.

By: Williams, Samuel, 1788-1853

Reference: PUBL-0101-139

Description: Shows a scaffolding structure of triangular cross section (possibly conical plan), rising to a point. It has fifteen stages, on which figures are standing as they construct it. Crowds are gathered watching at the base. ATL copy at p 919.31 1835 (More copies in Reserve and Wrapped Reserve) Extended Title - from William Yate's "An account of New Zealand ..." (London, Seeley & Burnside, 1835), page 139. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) on page of book.. Physical Description: Engraving, 135 x 90 mm.

Date: [18 March 1950]

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

Reference: PA1-f-005-496

Description: Group of cooks with dried eels on a line at Raukawa marae, during the centenary celebrations for Rangiatea church. Photograph taken on 18 March 1950 by George Leslie Adkin. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - 496. Group of cooks at Raukawa marae, where the centenary celebrations continued. Line with dried eels in front. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 6.2 x 10.5 cm, mounted on album page

Date: [ca 1920s]

Reference: 1/2-040305-G

Description: Photograph of Maori women preparing potatoes, Rotorua. Photograph taken circa 1920s by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: bottom left - 5. Maoris Preparing Food, Rotorua, N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 7

Reference: PAColl-6001-58

Description: Mrs S Burke placing bark around kelp/flax bags of salted muttonbirds, on Solomon Island, circa 1920s. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of file print reads 'Similar to photo published in Wilson, Eva "Titi heritage: the story of the Muttonbird Islands" (Invercargil, 1979), opp. p 49. (ATL 993.1 WIL).(Photo in book from Mrs U L Behsam's scrapbook 1921-27) "Mrs S Burke placing bark around kelp bags after being filled with [salted] birds. The bags are then tied up as shown on the right." Other photos including Mrs Burke were taken on Solomon's Island' Inscriptions: Verso - finishing packing mutton birding S.I. NZ Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1899

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-4249-06

Description: Waka kereru (a traditional Maori trap consisting of a water trough set with noose, used to snare wood pigeons and tui) in a tree at Ruatahuna. Image taken in 1899 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 139 x 104

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-116-018

Description: View from the shore looking across Lake Tikitapu (Blue Lake). In the foreground are a tent with a seated figure outside, three horses, a Maori and a European man. Two tall tree ferns are on the right Other Titles - Tiki Tapu Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D B 1874. Also hand-written label in ink in the hand of the artist, on card attached to backing board: Tiki Tapu or the Blue Lake near Roto Kakahi. Label cut from earlier backing board Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white, 249 x 357 mm (sight) Provenance: A note on the back, now discarded, indicated that the work was earlier put up for auction at the International Art Centre in May 1982. Art auction records indicate that a work with the same title was sold at Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 2 November 1981, lot 280 for AU $1,600.

Date: 1840 - 1846

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie ... 1838 - 1842. Atlas pittoresque. Paris, A. Gide, 1846.

By: Le Breton, Louis Auguste Marie, 1818-1866; A Gide, active 1846; Blanchard, Henri Pierre Leon Pharamond, 1805-1873

Reference: PUBL-0028-184

Description: Several Maori dwellings, and a storage platform inside a pa, probably at Russell. The nearest house has a carved lintel and elaborate carvings can be seen inside the door. Part of a large war canoe can be seen to the right Other Titles - Houses of the natives, Bay of Islands Another copy at B-187-008 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white, 202 x 303 mm

Date: 1899

From: Walsh, Philip 1843-1914 :[Waimate sketchbook] 1896-1913.

Reference: E-363-q-036

Description: Coastal settlement at the mouth of a river, with a church and houses, mostly cleared with a few trees. To the left in the foreground, is a rack, which has shark drying on it. See also views of the same settlement (Bay of Islands) on pages 26 and 27 to 28. Other Titles - Te Tii, Paroa Bay, Bay of Islands Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 180 x 255 mm

Date: 1838

By: Read, W, active 1901-1902; Polack, Joel Samuel, 1807-1882

Reference: A-259-006

Description: Shows a Maori village with huts, food stores and food being prepared. Polack was based in the Bay of Islands and this view is likely to be in that area Extended Title - From: Polack, J. S. New Zealand; being a narrative of travels and adventures... London, Richard Bentley, 1838. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Interior of a Native village in New Zealand.; Recto - beneath image - London. Published by Richard Bentley, 1838.; Recto - bottom left - J. S. Polack, del.; Recto - bottom right - W. Read, sc. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint 90 x 150 mm on sheet 140 x 220 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

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

Reference: E-334-049

Description: Elevated whata (food storage platforms) with low fences, two dwellings, and, in the left distance, the remains of an earlier pa, including the two Ti (cabbage) trees referred to in the name of the pa. People seated and standing around the pa. Shows Te Wai te Rua Ti pa, near Temuka Other Titles - Te Wai a te rua ti Pa, near Temuka Inscriptions: Recto - title and date in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1850

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-012

Description: View at the sea shore, with bluffs and a small beach, probably north of the Haumuri Bluffs, North Canterbury. Maori are launching a canoe and another canoe is on shore. There are also a fish-drying rack, two small whare and four other Maori. The Seaward Kaikoura Range is nearby in the background There is a similar watercolour titled Amuri Bluff, 1850, in Canterbury Museum. The area now known as Amuri is inland in North Canterbury. The area depicted in this view is the Haumuri Bluffs, on the East coast, south of the Kaikoura Peninsula and Oaro. Other Titles - Haumuri Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - on mount, discarded by the Library. Title and date. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 170 x 245 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1899

From: Walsh, Philip 1843-1914 :[Waimate sketchbook] 1896-1913.

Reference: E-363-q-028/029

Description: Coastal settlement at the mouth of a river, with a church and houses, mostly cleared with a few trees. To the left is a rack, which has shark drying on it. Identification of this view from another more close-up angle on p. 36. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, across two sketchbook pages, 180 x 510 mm

Date: 1900

By: Baker, William George, 1864-1929

Reference: G-550

Description: Shows two groups of Maori whare on a river in the foreground; the two groups are linked by a low wooden bridge. A waka is drawn up on the bank in the foreground and several figures stand in front of the huts. Beside the central group of two whare there is a drying pole on which a row of fish or game are hung. The figures beside the whare at far right are tending a campfire. The clearing is surrounded by native bush and there is a cabbage tree and flax at the far right. In the centre distance is Mount Taranaki dominating the scene. May show Rehu village, inland from Patea Inscriptions: Mount verso - top left - [Title, late twentieth-early 21st century, on paper stapled to frame] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 440 x 645 mm (sight)

Date: 6 Jul 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-001075-F

Description: Men heaping earth on a hangi at Te Kaha, 6 July, 1944. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Original caption reads: "Men heap earth to stop steam escaping from the ovens that cook meat, fish and vegetables." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-080

Description: Left side of an image spread over a double page. Shows a pa on a plain with distant mountains. There is a low fence surrounding a group of low whare and tall drying platforms. From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 135 x 235 mm

Date: [ca 1903]

By: Seloon (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-8639

Description: Photograph of Maori women and children, with kettles and a bucket, grouped by hot springs in Ohinemutu, taken circa 1903 by Seloon. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, handcoloured, 14.5 x 19.5 cm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

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

Reference: E-334-050

Description: Elevated whata (food storage platforms) with low fences, four dwellings, including one close to the ground in the foreground and one showing a European influence with a chimney slightly right of centre in the background. A flag may be flying from the building in the left background. People seated and standing around the pa. Other Titles - Te Wai a te rua ti Pa, near Temuka Inscriptions: Recto - title and date in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

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

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

Reference: C-103-078

Description: Shows the interior of Te Punaomara Pa, Waitaki River, with food storage platforms, a whare, cooking pots on a fire, a blanket hung up to dry. A Maori woman is seated on the ground, wrapped in a blanket, and a man is seated in the distance. To the left is a European man drawing in his sketchbook (probably Mantell's travelling companion and fellow-surveyor, Alfred Wills), while the artist's own boots and pack are in the centre foreground. A dog is also seated to the right. Te Punaomara was a pa on the Waitaki River at the crossing place Other Titles - Te Punaomara Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen sketch 190 x 229 mm

Date: 1847 - 1851

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889; McClintock, Madeleine, active 1985; Oliver, G C S (Mr), active 1970s

Reference: C-054-020

Description: Shows an elderly man (possibly Rangihaeata) seated in the centre of a group of four women, while one white-bearded man stands behind the group. In the right foreground is a spherical iron cooking pot. In the left background is a tree with forked base, showing a whare behind it. In the centre background is a cabbage tree, and there is a flax plant beside the group of women. In the distance is a hilly coastline, perhaps the Paekakariki coast. The clothing of the group varies. One woman wears a dark layered feather cloak; another wears what appears to be a red blanket. The old woman wears a light-coloured cloak and a dress of patterned fabric. Described in a list of Oliver paintings in the possession of Mr G.C.S. Oliver, as "Rangihera - Rangihaeta's wife. Flash of lightning. Old man, five women in front of hollow tree". The central figure has been interpreted as Te Rangihaeata, himself, shown with his characteristic albatross-feather ear adornments. Moko on his forehead is indicated and he holds a mere in his right hand. As there is no record of a wife of Rangihaeata's with the name Rangi-Hira (or Rangihaera or Rangiuira) it may be that Oliver was mistaken in his identification of the central figure as Rangihaeata's wife. Compare the Library's very similar group portrait, also by Oliver of Rangihaeata and family outside a whare (C-054-014). The latter view has fewer figures but several are clearly the same figures. Certificate of verification, signed by Madeleine McClintock on 17 May 1985, on verso of backing board. The scene is likely to have been painted in 1851, when Oliver was on his way towards Waikane and Otaki for the meeting with Rangihaeata depicted in Oliver's watercolour C-054-018 [A korero. Te Rangihaeata addresssing the Governor in Chief (Sir George Grey) at Waikanae [or Otaki] Sept 1851]. The identity of Rangi-Hira is uncertain. Compare with Isaac Coates' portrait of E Ranguera (a.k.a. Te Rongo), an earlier wife of Rangihaeata. Te Rongo was killed at Wairau in 1843, well before Oliver arrived in New Zealand. Another wife of chiefly status was Te Pikinga. The woman variously described by Oliver as 'Rangihera' and 'Rangihira', may be Rangihaeata's niece, Rangiuira of Kapiti Island, wife from 1847 to 1854 of David Brown, a farmer of Kapiti. Tony Ireland (pers com. November 2007) has made a suggested indentification of the figures in the picture. He cites Waari Carkeek http://www.ngatitoa.iwi.nz/briefs, who cites the cursing song of Rangihaeata's sister Tope-Ora (Nga Moteatea number 280) which states that the second Tope-ora was a daughter of Rangihaeata. Tony Ireland therefore surmises that the picture shows, from left to right: Rangi Topeora I, her fourth husband Arapata Hauturu, Rangiuira's father Te Paea (standing), Rangihaeata (seated with white hair), the infant Tope-Ora II, Rangiuira Rakera Te Paea, and an unnamed woman reclining on the ground at the right. However a personal communication from Bernard Morgan, October 2009, disputes these identifications. Bernard Morgan, a descendant of Rangiuira te Paea, states that Rangiuira was never married to Rangihaeata. She was married to David Brown of Kapiti Island 1847-1854. The suggested identifications are speculatory and may be incorrect. Other Titles - Te Rangiuira - Rangihaeta's wife... in front of hollow tree. Rangiheara. Rangihaeata. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Rangi heara; Verso - centre - Rangi-hira / Flash of Lightning [both bracketed to] Rangihaeta's wife Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 310 x 480 mm (sight). Provenance: Passed down through the Oliver family to Mr G.C.S. Oliver of Rutland, England. Exhibited at New Zealand House, London for about 20 years, to the early 1980s. Inherited by G.C.S. Oliver's daughter, Mrs Madeleine McClintock of Sheffield, England, and then sold in about 1985, through the dealership of Brian Groshinski, to the Goodman Group.

Date: [14 March 1936]

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

Reference: PA1-f-005-386

Description: Mrs Henry, of Otaki, with eels drying on racks (pataka-tuna), at Raukawa marae during the opening ceremony of Raukawa meeting house. Photograph taken on 14 March 1936 by George Leslie Adkin. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - 386. Dried eels on racks (pataka-tuna). The lady is Mrs Henry, of Otaki. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 6.3 x 10.2 cm, mounted on album page