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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: 1914

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 :Collection of photographs

Reference: 1/1-017975-G

Description: Shows 6 Maori men wearing feather cloaks and carrying spears. They are from L to R: Te Wairoa Piripi, Hekiera te Rangai, Huihi Pou-Patate, Te Huia Raureti, Mahu Te Mona, te Wharerangi Parekawa. Photograph taken by J Cowan ca 1914. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1932

From: Photographer unknown: Mounted Specials during the wharf strike 1932

Reference: PA2-2873

Description: Shows the Commander of the Waikato Mounted Detachment with two of his senior officers during the Auckland riots of 1932 Inscriptions: Verso - Waikato Mounted Detachment - The Commandant and his senior officers; Recto - beneath image - Auckland riots 1932 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1885

From: New Zealand Department of Justice, Commissioner of Patents :Collection of Burton Brothers prints

By: Burton, Alfred Henry, 1834?-1914

Reference: PA7-36-32

Description: Group of men, women and children photograph with Wahanui by Alfred Burton on the verandah of his house at Alexandra in Jun 1885. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3629 - The great Ngatimaniopoto chief Wahanui, family and friends at his house - Alexandra. Burton Bros, Dunedin.; Mount recto - bottom centre - Registrar of Copyrights, New Zealand. 697 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.5 x 20 cm on mount 22.8 x 29.2 cm

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-0014-55

Description: A group of sketches with accompanying text, paraphrased as follows: 1. [Top centre] Mode of fishing with nets on Lake Taupo. 2. [Upper centre]. A fishing weir, or eel pa, on the river Mokau. 3. [Top left] Wooden fish-hook. 4. [Top right] Fish hook generally in use, made of wood with a layer of paua ... 5. Kupenga or eel trap, formed of twigs [a basket trap]. 6. [Centre left]Ko, a wooden spade for rooting up ferns and preparing the ground for plantations. 7. [Upper right, below paua fish-hook] A pestle for beating flax, formed of volcanic trap. 8. [Centre right, below pestle] Wooden flute, one of the orifices is tattooed to resemble the lips of a woman. 9 [Lower left, below digging sticks] Bark bucket and calabashes for holding water. 10. [Lower centre] Ornamented flax basket for household purposes. 11. [Bottom centre] [H]e kumete, ancient wooden bowl for kumaras, from the deserted pa of Otawhao, near Waipa, eight feet in circumference. 12 & 13 [Bottom left and right] flax sandles from Otago. 14 [Centre] Portrait of an aged slave woman, at Pouketouto [Puketutu Pā?], in the interior, beyond Mokau [Waitomo]. The woman is squatting in front of a whare. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured, 230 x 336 mm.

Date: ca 1885

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 15

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-7081-39

Description: Hone Wetere Te Rerenga with his wife (probably his second wife Te Ata Hoani) and son, circa 1885. His wife wears a korowai (Maori tag cloak). Photograph taken by the Burton Brothers, probably in Mokau. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Wetere Te Rerenga, wife, and son Burton Bros Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 20 x 14.8 cm

Date: [1886?]

From: Anderson, Christopher Andrew John, 1914-2002 : Portraits of Maori

By: Blythe, John Cunningham, -1892

Reference: 1/1-039840-G

Description: Wahanui Huatare. Three quarter length portrait of a Maori man with a moko. He wears a Maori cloak around his shoulders and holds a taiaha. Photograph taken by surveyor John Cunningham Blythe and recorded as having been taken at Otorohanga in 1886. Source of descriptive information - This photograph was published in the New Zealand Railways Magazine, volume 9, issue 11 (1 Feb 1935) with the following caption: "Wahanui, Chief of Ngati-Maniapoto. (From a photograph by Mr. J. C. Blythe, Surveyor, at Otorohanga, 1886" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [1863]

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: C-025-011

Description: A view from above Whangamarino Redoubt with three cannons in the foreground. The left one is firing out over river and plain. The river bends at the extreme right, or may join another. The gunboat (Pioneer) is in the river in the centre distance, near a fortification or pa with a flag flying. In a note on the back A W F Fuller quotes G W Rusden's History of NZ 1883, vol. II, page 167: "On the 29th October 1863, General Cameron with Commander Wiseman, reconnoitred Mere-Mere. Two 40 pound Armstrong guns had been previously landed at Whangamarino to command the landing place at Mere Mere. That stronghold was on a low ridge which approached the Waikato river. Traversed rifle-pits occupied the descent of the ridge to the river. Swamps almost encircled the ridge, & the Whangamarino & Maramarua rivers, or creeks, were available to the east for the possible retreat always aimed at by Maoris in their plans of fortification. The swamps were more water-laden than usual. The Maori flag floated in a pah where the ridge was 130 feet high. Every slope & projection from the ridge to the swamps was traversed with rifle-pits..." The mention of the flag appears to mean that the Maori pa is the one with the flag flying in the centre distance. Other Titles - Meremere Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Heaphy; Verso - centre - [Notes by A W F Fuller, 7 May 1941]. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 490 x 760 mm

Date: 1844

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

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: PUBL-0014-44

Description: Portraits of three seated Maori chiefs, in two groups. On the left is Te Wherowhero, seated beside a log, wrapped in a blanket, a whare with flax kits on its roof, with tree ferns and other trees in the background. On the right are the other two men, both in cloaks, both seated. All three men have full moko. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Other Titles - Te Wherowhero, Te Waro Inscriptions: The signatures of both Te Waru and Te Pakaru are included under their portraits The Library holds the original watercolour of the double portrait of Te Waru and Te Pakaru, at C-114-003 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm

Date: [ca 1922]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-q-102-163-2

Description: Photograph taken circa 1922 by Albert Percy Godber. Shows a wooden carved memorial at Te Koura Marae, erected in memory of those of died in the 1918 influenza epidemic. Image was previously incorrectly described as being a memorial to Māori soldiers at Waimiha, this information relates to a different photograph. In 2023, was identified as a memorial to Māori victims of the influenza epidemic. Sources: Ian Pool, 'Death rates and life expectancy - Māori epidemiological transition', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/26595/monument-to-flu-victims (accessed 26 July 2023). 'Māori and the flu, 1918–19', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/influenza-pandemic-1918/maori-and-the-flu, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 1-Jul-2020. Title supplied by Library. Photograph dated from other images in album. Inscriptions: Album page - Carved cenotaph at Te Koura Pa, in memory of influenza epidemic. The memorial was designed and carved by Tene Waitere of Ngāti Tarāwhai. He also did a similar cenotaph at Te Ihingarangi Marae, Waimiha. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.8 x 11.1 cm Processing information: Location of carving updated from Waimiha to Te Koura Marae following information provided by C&S Publications, Taumarunui. Description updated 26 July 2023 following information from a researcher.

Date: 1861 - 1862

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of a trip up the Wanganui River, December 13, 1861-Jan 8, 1862]

Reference: E-041-008

Description: Shows a group of Maori men with sticks or long spears, surrounding a bull which is standing in the river. Some men are pulling on ropes attched to the bull's head. Other Titles - Topine te Mamaku's people Quantity: 1 drawing(s) In his sketchbook of a trip up the Wanganui R. 1861-62.. Physical Description: Pencil & ink