Places

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

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

Reference: E-281-q-010

Description: Looking south-west along the coastline towards the hills north of Moeraki, past the mouth of the Kakanui River. In the foreground are a tent, and a raupo shelter, a man standing and a group of three men seated Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash, 58 x 200 mm.

Date: 1850

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

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

Reference: C-103-043-1

Description: Shows Mount Egmont in the distance with houses, a seated cow in a paddock and a man standing to the right. There is also a low flat structure on legs in the centre. 'Hua' may be an abbreviation for Huatoki Stream. Other Titles - Huatoki Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 145 x 229 mm

Date: 1850

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

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

Reference: E-281-q-044-3

Description: View from the hills of Wadestown looking north east towards the Harbour. A tree trunk is sketched in on the slope in the foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour wash on cream wove paper, 124 x l56 mm

Date: 1850

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

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

Reference: C-103-009-1

Description: Shows track into valley, with a tall tree fern on the right Extended Title - In: Mantell, W B D Scrapbook. No. 8. p. 7 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 210 x 175 mm

Date: 1844

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

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

Reference: C-103-021-4

Description: Study of geological layers in a cliff Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 'Kanga maiterangi'; also bottom right 'Cliff at Howick, 1 sept'. Both inscriptions in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 65 x 125 mm

Date: 1852

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

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

Reference: C-103-107-2

Description: View across the tops of hills from north of Bluff towards Stewart Island and the high points of Ragged and Codfish Islands Other Titles - Hinetui. Omaui. Bluff. Rarotoka. Raggedy. Rugged. Codfish Id Inscriptions: Recto - above image - title and date in ink; also the names of various high points Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on 2 sheets of wove paper, each 28 x 259 mm

Date: 1848 - 1849

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

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

Reference: C-103-111-3

Description: Looking along the shoreline at Ruapuke Island, with a small house in the distance, presumably that of Rev. J. F. Wohlers Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink on cream paper, 85 x 131 mm

Date: 1847

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

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

Reference: C-103-041-2

Description: Looking north up the coast from a kainga at Waitara with a whare to the right Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 110 x 172 mm

Date: 1849 - 1851

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

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

Reference: C-103-015-3

Description: A night scene with a fire burning near a pataka. A lake and hills are to the right. Muhunoa is alongside the 38 m high knoll Ohau and this is likely to be the hill formation shown in the background Other Titles - Muhunoa Inscriptions: 'Waiwiri from Muhunea' inscribed on the album page, now discarded. The inscription can be seen in the photographic copy of the watercolour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 130 x 85 mm

Date: 1847

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

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

Reference: C-103-025-4

Description: The beach at Omata with an interesting rock formation of rounded lumps on a base, a human figure at the right giving it scale. The view looks south and there is a flax plant to the left One of 9 small drawings on this sheet Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink, 80 x 110 mm

Date: 1852 - 1853

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

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

Reference: C-103-103-3

Description: A small thatched roof cottage and a low shelter in a clearing in bush New River was the original European name for the Oreti River, Southland Other Titles - Oreti River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 56 x 106 mm

Date: 1849

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

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

Reference: C-103-074-1

Description: View looking down into Lyttelton Harbour from the Sumner Road area, taking in Lyttelton, with its few houses marked, as well as Rapaki and Cass Bays and looking towards Governor's Bay. The drawing forms a panoramic view with C-103-075-1, which includes Quail Island. Caption points out sites of other bays and early buildings in Lyttelton, including the (Canterbury Association) Agent's house (Godley's house), the house occupied by Torlesse, Cridland and Mantell, also 'Godley & Ballard's', 'Fraser and heads of departments', 'Men's hut and smithy'. The drawing is on two separate pieces of paper and forms thecentre and right sections of a panorama with C-103-075-1 'Quail Island' Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen & ink, 132 x 65 mm and 143 x 186 mm

Date: 1850

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

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

Reference: C-103-013-4

Description: Shows the Eastern hills, Wellington Harbour, bush and one house in the foreground in Wellington, possibly the Wadestown area. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 153 x 140 mm

Date: 1847

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

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

Reference: C-103-040-4

Description: A Maori man, Haumuera Puketapu, shown seated, in European clothing, with his back to the viewer near the coast at New Plymouth looking north. In front of him is a raupo whare and a group of three other seated Maori. In: Mantell, W B D Scrapbook Other Titles - Village of Samuel Puketapu [translation] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 126 x 208 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

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

Reference: E-281-q-023

Description: A single-storey house surrounded by a fence, with a shed or further house beyond it, a conical hill and other foothills of the Southern Alps in the near background. A figure with a pole over one shoulder walks along a path to the right towards the house. The house is surrounded by cultivated fields. Another building and possibly a haystack are to the right. Arowhenua is close to modern Temuka, South Canterbury, on the Opihi River. Tarahaoa is the Maori name for Mount Peel, possibly the conical hill behind the house. Mount Peel is some 40 km distant from Arowhenua and appears closer in this view than the location of modern Arowhenua would suggest. The name Arowhenua was applied to a larger area in 1848 than in modern times Other Titles - Arowhenua Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil works, 57 x 103 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

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

Reference: E-281-q-019

Description: The Otago coastline, looking north, with 'dry sand spit' marked in the centre and 'Kaika' [Kainga or Maori village] noted beyond the spit and in the shelter of a rounded hill at the water's edge Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash, 56 x 201 mm.

Date: 1849

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

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

Reference: C-103-006-4

Description: A night scene showing two men seated in front of a camp fire, a temporary wooden shelter behind them Extended Title - From: Mantell, W B D. Scrapbook, p. 6 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 80 x 110 mm

Date: 1861-1935

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4246

Description: Comprises `The Tradition of Totarakeria', by Matara, Walter B D Mantell, the story of a totara tree which carried 70 warriors from Maketu to Hawaiki and back (with transcript), nd; a letter from Mantell to his mother, 8 Dec 1861, listing photographs of Dunedin, three of which are included; and an article by Kotare from the `Auckland weekly news', 23 Oct 1935, on Geraldine Jewsbury, an admirer of Mantell Source of title - Supplied title Other Titles - The Tradition of Totarakeria Quantity: 1 folder(s) (20 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescript, photographs and printed matter (all photocopies)

Date: 1852

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

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

Reference: C-103-087-3

Description: View across a harbour The Clutha district is suggested as the location of this view since the two other drawings on this page are both located south of Dunedin on the east coast. The name Port Pandora is no longer in use. Language - the word Pandora is written in Greek letters Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 178 x 253 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

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

Reference: E-281-q-031

Description: A river valley with flax bushes and a range of hills in the background Although there is an Otemakura River at Goose Bay, south of Kaikoura, the landscape here does not correspond (and Mantell was not in the Goose Bay area). This seems more likely to be the Otekura River, Clutha disrict Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash 76 x 232 mm