Places

Date: 1958 - 1968

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: New Zealand. Hydrographic Office; R E Owen (Firm); Ritchie, George Stephen, 1914-2012

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-1/7/74/Acc.54760

Description: Hydrographic chart NZ 56. New Zealand - North Island - Gable End Foreland to Cape Kidnappers - Surveyed by Captain C C Lowry, RN, & Commanders G S Ritchie, DSC, RN, & F W Hunt, MBE, RN - HMNZS 'Lachlan' 1953-57. Published by the Hydrographic Branch, Department of the Navy, Wellington, March 1958, under the superintendence of Commander F W Hunt, MBE, RN. Printed by R E Owen, Government Printer, Wellington, 1968. Gridded edition. Manuscript annotations include compass arcs and arrows in red, blue, green, and brown ink with topographical reference points annotated. Extensive notes and annotations in pencil. Also includes diagram showing "Distance to visible horizon". Letter (typescript with signature in blue ink) from R P Gough, Surveyor-General, to Chief Surveyor, Gisborne, dated 2 July 1969. On the subject of "Sighting of New Zealand - Captain Cook". The letter discusses the question "which was the first piece of land sighted by Captain Cook and his crew when they discovered New Zealand." The letter closes with the statement: "We conclude that Te Rimuomaru was most probably the piece of land first seen by Young Nick from the masthead." Inset shows horizontal views of land between Table Cape and Portland Island, and between Table Cape and Wairoa. Topographical relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings and isolines. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed map on paper, with typescript letter attached at margin and extensive manuscript annotations, natural scale 1:200,000, 70 x 103 cm

Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008861-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0021540

Description: Captain Cook has landed in New Zealand. His interpreter tells him that the Maori who have gathered to meet him have worries about 'our refugee status', in that they have had reports of 'our behaviour' from other Pacific islands. The cartoonist's editorial comment above his signature is 'Kia pai to ra' (Good day to you). Refers to the concern that many refugees to New Zealand often had bad reports from other countries. By the same criterion, would the earlier Pakeha settlers have been welcome in New Zealand? Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1778 - 1784 - 1827 - 1779 - 1833

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Fumagalli, Paolo, 1797-1873; Giulio Ferrario (Firm)

Reference: A-447-012

Description: A view inside a pa or kainga with a group of four Maori standing and seated in the foreground, one man leaning on a taiaha. Two further Maori are seated in conversation on the right. They are in an open flat area, surrounded by low dwellings, with part of a palisade in the background. The view is on Cook's 'Hippah Island' with Motuara Island rising behind to the north, in Queen Charlotte Sound Derived from an engraving after John Webber 'The inside of a hippah in New Zealand' published in Cook, J and J King. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean (London, 1784). The Italian aquatint version is cropped on the right, omitting a further dwelling, fencing and a canoe in the water Inscriptions: Recto - top right - [printed plate number] 69. [Bottom right beneath image, printed etcher's name] Fumagalli f[ecit]. [Bottom right of sheet, in pencil] Neuseeland Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, hand-coloured, 182 x 238 mm (platemark) on sheet 249 x 367 mm Provenance: Purchase: Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, 21 November 2011

Date: 1777

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Strahan, William, 1715-1785; Cadell, Thomas, 1742-1802

Reference: A-464-019

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of a Maori woman with short hair and a red cloak wrapped around her shoulders. She also wears a red-coloured drop earing, probably meant to be greenstone After a red chalk drawing on Cook's 2nd voyage, now in National Library of Australia, reference number R-740. The original drawing was exhibited in 'Encounter with Eden, New Zealand, 1770-1870' a touring exhibition in New Zealand, 1990-1992; item 2 in the catalogue This likeness was taken some time between 18 May and 7 June 1773 while the Resolution was at Ship Cove. Anders Sparrman recorded: "It was in such a buggi-buggi [paki-paki or cloak?] that the New Zealand woman was portrayed by the masterly hand of Mr Hodges, our painter. I must confess, however, that he did not choose the most beautiful model as an example of this country's female physiognomy, for the likeness of younger and fairer women is not so easy to depict, yet neither was this one of the ugliest. Language difficulties at first gave rise to a misunderstanding between the girl and the painter, for she, having been paid well to go down into the saloon, imagined that she ought to give satisfaction in the way she understood it, as soon as possible in return for our gift; perhaps she had had previous experience with our sailors? She was astonished when signs were made for her to sit on a chair; such a novel way of doing things struck her as absurd, but she promptly volunteered a prone position on the chair for the painter and his companion. To her further surprise she was eventually put in a correct position, just sitting on the chair with nothing to do; whereupon, to the wonderment and entertainment of herself and the two savages with her, she quickly saw her likeness, appearing in a red crayon drawing." (Sparrman, 1944, p. 56-57) Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage towards the South Pole. (London, Strahan & Cadell, 1777), Pl.58 The Library holds other versions of this likeness (a black and white example being at C-051-027) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 225 x 175 on laid paper 285 x 190 mm (plate mark)

Date: 1777

By: Dunbar Sloane Ltd; Michel, Jean Baptiste, 1748-1804; Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Strahan, William, 1715-1785; Cadell, Thomas, 1742-1802

Reference: A-464-020

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Tuanui, (also known as Rangituanui), principal chief of Ngati Hikatoa. He is bearded, and shown with four multi-coloured feathers in his hair (probably meant to be huia feathers), albatross feather earrings, moko and a bone toggle fastening his cloak After a red chalk drawing on Cook's 2nd voyage, now in National Library of Australia, reference number R-747. The original drawing was exhibited in 'Encounter with Eden, New Zealand, 1770-1870' a touring exhibition in New Zealand, 1990-1992; item 1 in the catalogue This likeness was taken aboard the Resolution in the Cape Kidnappers area on 22 October 1773. Tuanui was the recipient of two sows and two boars, from which the wild pigs known as 'Captain Cookers' are descended. The engraved image is a reversal of the original red chalk drawing Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage towards the South Pole. (London, Strahan & Cadell, 1777), Pl.55 The Library holds other versions of this likeness (a black and white example being at C-051-026) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 230 x 180 on laid paper 290 x 235 mm (plate mark cropped)

Date: 1841 - 1776 - 1779

By: Nyon, Eugene, active 1834-1848

Reference: A-384-068

Description: Sloping land with a Maori village, looking down to water, where two ships and a canoe can be seen. A palm tree and an agave on the left. Other Titles - View of a bay in New Zealand close to Queen Charlotte Sound [translation] Vista tomada en la Nueva Zelandia [Spanish version of the title]. View taken in New Zealand [translation] Extended Title - From 'Nouvelle bibliotheque des voyages". Paris, Dumenil, 1841. Volume 4, p. 310 (Plate 8) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Nyon sculp.; Recto - above image - Vista tomada en la Na. Zealandia. Nlle Bibliotheque des voyages. Tome 4, pl. 8; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, plate 130 x 190 mm, on page 140 x 208 mm.

Date: 1809 - 1777

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Boydell & Company

Reference: B-098-015

Description: Shows the ship Resolution's astronomical observation tents, Maori fishing and drying fish, several waka, crew members of the Resolution and Discovery and the two ships standing out to sea in the Queen Charlotte Sound. The location of the scene is Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound. The events depicted occurred in February 1777, during Captain Cook's third voyage to New Zealand Originally published in: Webber, J. Views in the South Seas. Pl.1. A version in greys and sepias, a soft-ground etching, is bound into fREng / COOK / Voyage / 1784a / Copy / Atlas p. 70l, spine title Cook Views in the South Seas, reference Joppien and Smith, 3.21A a. The reference for the hand-coloured aquatint is Joppien and Smith, 3.21A b After a sketch made on Cook's 3rd voyage, worked up as an oil painting. The painting, now in Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, was previously in the Bishop Suter Art Gallery, Nelson. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, hand-coloured, 330 x 452 mm, on sheet 400 x 530 mm

Date: 1777 - 1773

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Michel, Jean Baptiste, 1748-1804

Reference: C-051-026

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Tuanui, (also known as Rangituanui), principal chief of Ngati Hikatoa. He is shown with feathers in his hair, albatross feather earrings, moko and a bone toggle fastening his cloak. After a red chalk drawing on Cook's 2nd voyage, now in National Library of Australia, reference number R-747. The original drawing was exhibited in 'Encounter with Eden, New Zealand, 1770-1870' a touring exhibition in New Zealand, 1990 - 1992. Item 1 in the catalogue.. Edges trimmed within plate marks, except along the bottom. This likeness was taken aboard the Resolution in the Cape Kidnappers area on 22 October 1773. Tuanui was the recipient of two sows and two boars, from which the wild pigs known as 'Captain Cookers' are descended. The engraved image is a reversal of the original red chalk drawing. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage towards the South Pole. (London, Strahan & Cadell, 1777), Pl. 55 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, black & white, 228 x 181 mm (image) on sheet 300 x 245 mm.

Date: 15 Feb-15 Mar 1851

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-1207

Description: Contains diary entries in which McLean describes his travels from Hawkes Bay to Poverty Bay seeking land to buy, and carrying out some of his magistrate duties. European and Maori settlements and meetings are described, including descriptions of Turanganui (present day Gisborne) and Wairoa areas, an old Maori women who remembered the visit of James Cook, the first magistrate's court sitting in the district, and descriptions of land that he was interested in purchasing. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1784 - 1769

By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Sibelius, Gerard, 1734-1785

Reference: B-098-024

Description: Shows a Maori man in a cloak, holding a long spear in the centre foreground, and two Europeans with another cloaked Maori at the left. The view is from Cook's Cove looking through to Tolaga Bay. Through the arched hole in the rock, a stretch of water (Tolaga Bay), with a two-sailed waka is visible. From: Anderson, G W ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages... London : Alexander Hogg, [1874] p. 44. After an earlier version published in Hawkesworth, J. Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere... (London, ) Same as A-111-002, -a, -b, -c & -d Compare Sydney Parkinson's pen and wash drawing of the same scene, the original in the collection of the British Library. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 200 x 328 mm.

Date: 1769 - 1784

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771

Reference: B-098-025

Description: Shows Europeans at left and Maori at right, paddling two canoes in the foreground, with the arched rock behind. Some canoes are drawn up on the steep back at the right beyond the rock. Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway (see plates in Bernard Smith and Beaglehole). Same as A-111-011-a Extended Title - From Anderson, G W ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. In Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 1769 - 1784

From: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771 :A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's ship, 'The Endeavour'. Faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson. London; Printed for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, and James Phillips, in the George-Yard, 1784.

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Newton, J, active 1784; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771

Reference: PUBL-0037-24

Description: The arched rock at Mercury Bay, with a small canoe with a sail beneath it and the Endeavour at anchor to the right beyond the rock. The palisades and some buildings of the pa (Te Puta o te Paretauhinu) on top of the rock, with a figure to the right waving a cloth. Canoes pulled up on the lower reaches of the rock. The rock has subsequently collapsed. Parkinson was the artist on Captain Cook's voyage to New Zealand in 1769. Other Titles - Pa Based on a wash drawing now in the British Library by Herman Diedrich Sporing, presumably copied by Parkinson. John Hawkesworth's version (in his Voyages..., London, 1773) of this view reverses the rock, adds a kangaroo and a war canoe. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 225 x 270 mm

Date: 1769 - 1780 - 1773 - 1790

From: Artist unknown :Views in the South Seas [1769-1779. Drawn 1780s?]

Reference: E-329-f-006

Description: Copy of an engraving published in John Hawkesworth (1773, II, Plate 18)) after Spoering 'A fortified town or village...' from Captain James Cook's first voyage to New Zealand in 1769. Shows a Te Puta o te Paretauhinu Pa atop a pierced rock at Mercury Bay, with two canoes in front, two further empty canoes pulled up on rocks to the right, and the Endeavour at anchor to the left. Verso shows handwritten text in Dutch (translation of this text in accompanying typescript). There is some variation in the details between this and the engraved version. The scene is at Mercury Bay, not Tolaga Bay Other Titles - A view of a fortified village built on a pierced rock in New Zealand [translation]. A fortified town or village called a hippah, built on a perforated rock at Tolaga in New Zealand. Mercury Bay Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink. Also verso covered in text in Dutch describing the scene Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and holograph in album 272 x 430 mm

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-256-028

Description: Two view on one sheet: the upper view shows a sailing ship, probably the Endeavour, with canoes; the lower view shows Maori launching a canoe from a beach, with palm trees (or tall tree ferns) to the right Cook was the first European to visit (and give a European name to) Mercury Bay Another copy of the same image is in Felton Mathew's scrapbook, E-389-f-001 The image of Mercury Bay is derived in part from Sainson's lithograph 'Village a l'anse de l'Astrolabe' published 1833 and showing a scene in Astrolabe Bay (Golden Bay, South Island) not Mercury Bay, during a French visit in 1827. The palm trees suggest that the engraver was unfamiliar with New Zealand geography and flora Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, tinted, 147 x 97 mm

Date: 1777 - 1790

From: Artist unknown :Views in the South Seas [1769-1779. Drawn 1780s?]

Reference: E-329-f-008

Description: Copy by an unknown Dutch artist after Webber's engraving published in Cook & King (1784, plate 10) 'The inside of a Hippah in New Zealand', from the third voyage of Captain James Cook to New Zealand. Shows a pa on Motuara Island in Queen Charlotte Sound with a ring of thatched whare and several Maori. Verso shows handwritten text in Dutch. There is some variation in the details between this and the engraved version. Other Titles - View of a fortified village of New Zealand [translation]. The inside of a hippah in New Zealand Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink. Also verso covered in text in Dutch describing the scene Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and holograph in album 272 x 430 mm

Date: 1778 - 1784 - 1779

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Pouncy, Benjamin Thomas, -1799

Reference: B-098-011

Description: The open marae area of a pa, with low houses around the edge of the area, a brushwood palisade and the sea and hills beyond. In the foreground are two groups of Maori, one including a man leaning on a spear with others seated at his feet, the other with two men or women seated. The foreground area with the pa is thought to be Cook's 'Hippah Island', a now unnamed islet just south of Motuara Island in Queen Charlotte Sound, looking north, with the steep sides of Motuara Island rising beyond the pa. Exhibitied in 'Drawn From Nature: Europeans Record New Zealand, 1770-1860' exhibition at the National Library Gallery, 31 March to 28 May 1989. Extended Title - From: Cook, James. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. (London, 1784). Vol 1, plate 10. This version (in the correct orientation) is based on a pen and wash drawing in the British Library (Add. MS 15513, f. 6). There is also a watercolour version (closer to the engraving, but produced later by Webber probably in preparation for engraving)in the Dixson Library, Sydney (PXX 2, 2). See also A-111-008 for a reversed version of this view from G. W. Anderson's 'A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...' (London, 1784); also B-098-023 for the same, hand-coloured. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 152 x 404 mm on sheet 325 x 474 mm

Date: 1784

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Rennoldson, active 1760

Reference: B-098-023

Description: Shows a group of four Maori in the centre foreground outside a pa. Two other figures talk together on the ground to the left. Some whare constructed of reeds are seen behind them, on ground that slopes away to the lake or inlet in the background. There is a hill in the centre distance. See Joppien and Smith, volume 3, page 18, which suggests that the pa shown is probably the fortified village on the island of Motuara, visited by Cook on 15 February and by Anderson on 20 February. It was visited by Cook on his first voyage, and Furneaus had established his winter quarters there on the second voyage when it was also used as William Bayly's observatory. Between the second and third voyage, the pa had been rebuilt but was again deserted. This gave Webber an opportunity to sketch it from the inside. Derived from an engraving by B T Pouncy. (In: A voyage... [by Cook and King] 1784, v.1, pl. 10. Not bound but issued separately as Plates to Cook's Third Voyage, [p.7] This in turn is from a drawing by James Webber made on Cook's third voyage. (see Beaglehole's Cook, v. 3, pt. 1, pl. 14) Same as A-111-008 Other Titles - Inside of a pa Extended Title - From Anderson, G W, ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages... London: A Hogg, [1784] op. p.53 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 200 x 327 mm.

Date: 1841

By: Aze, Adolphe, 1823-1884; Rowe, John, 1744?-1773

Reference: A-211-003

Description: Depicts Second Lt. Burney of the Resolution (Cook's 2nd voyage) discovering the remains of John Rowe, master's mate, after the massacre by the Maori at Grass Cove (Cannibal Cove) Queen Charlotte Sound 1773. 3rd state. (Includes imprint statement above title and below image. 1st state has title in French only; 2nd state has title in French and in Spanish) Title in French below image and in Spanish above the image Other Titles - Lieutenant Burney discovers the remains of the unfortunate Rowe and his companions [translation] Extended Title - Published in: Nouvelle bibliotheque des voyages [1841] Vol. 4., Pl. 8 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 4 x 6.3 ins

From: Nouvelle Bibliotheque des voyages anciens et modernes. Paris, Dumenil, 1841.

By: Nyon, Eugene, active 1834-1848

Reference: PUBL-0192-04-310

Description: Sloping land with a Maori village, looking down to water, where two ships and a canoe can be seen. A palm tree and an agave on the left Purports to illustrate a scene from Cook's third voyage to New Zealand. It does not resemble any of the drawings or prints recording this voyage and appears to be drawn from imagination. It includes several inaccuracies and the landscape is not recognisably of a part of Queen Charlotte Sound Other Titles - View of a bay in New Zealand close to Queen Charlotte Sound [translation] Vista tomada en la Nueva Zelandia [Spanish version of the title]. View taken in New Zealand [translation] Extended Title - From: Nouvelle bibliotheque des voyages. Paris, Dumenil, 1841. Volume 4 , p. 310 (Plate 8) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 104 x 161 mm