Places

Date: [1890-1965]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-075

Description: Typescripts and photocopies of articles, `Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill)' by M H Wynyard; `Maori geographical knowledge and mapping; a symposium' by P L Barton (Turnbull Library record, v13, n1, May 1980); `A Sketch of Maori church work on the East Coast in early times' by J G Baker; letter with notes on Buin stone implements (1965); manuscript of Eruera Te Uremutu from the Polynesian Society library Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript Typescript with ms annotations Photocopy of ms

Date: 1889 - 1906

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B023

Description: Contains notes about the occupation of land near Greytown by the Ngati Muretu hapu, and a draft letter complaining about land sold by someone that does not own it; contains cosmological information, including whakapapa of various deities and a detailed account of the life of Maui Tikitiki; also contains notes about practices and traditions associated with childbirth and the instruction of children in martial and practical arts; there are also notes about practices within whare wananga and the conditions placed on students There is a narrative about Ngatoroirangi of the Te Arawa canoe, and a warning about incorrect whakapapa and the use of repetitive names to inflate a whakapapa; there is also a discussion of the relevance of traditional knowledge in contemporary society There is a narrative dictated by Te Wera Hauraki and Tarahau in 1837 about Ngati Awa, recited by Te Matorohanga to Te Whatahoro at a later date; the narrative describes the arrival of Ngati Awa at Whakatane and their conflicts with the resident tangata whenua, which includes a detailed physical description of these people; there is a narrative about the migration of Toi and Whatonga to New Zealand and their subsequent settlement There is a narrative of 19th century conflicts involving Waikato and Taranaki tribes and subsequent events, whakapapa (including some taken from the Journal of the Polynesian Society), karakia associated with various practices and activities (including notes about the performance of karakia by tohunga), and waiata (including notes from Sir George Grey's `Nga Moteatea' There is a narrative about the birth of Tuteremoana of the Ngai Tara tribe, with related waiata; a list of place-names and pa sites in the Wellington area and some notes about conflicts involving Wairarapa hapu; there are also notes about the proceedings of a whakapapa hui held at Papawai in 1906, including an address by H P Tunuiarangi Other - 5 loose pages are inserted in the beginning. One page is titled `Te Ngakiatotara', another 2 pages are titled `Kereitaone' and the other is a list of names from Ngati Awa Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph (32 cm; maroon boards)

Date: 1940

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0028

Description: Contains lsit of Ngapuhi, Ngati Whatua, Ngati Kahu and Te Rarawa Pa Maori. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1977

From: Richards, Trevor, 1946- : Papers

Reference: 99-278-25/04

Description: Inward and outward correspondence, newsletters and circulars relating to the Bastion Point dispute; includes separate file on race Other Titles - Takaparawha; bulletin issued by the Orakei Maori Committee Action Group from Bastin Point Tent Town Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1844 - 1890

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Keesing, G S (Mr), active 1960s

Reference: D-001-009-a

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha on 11 May 1844. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. This copy lacks a printed inscription on the recto of copy D-001-009 "Presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890" Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph in two tints 220 x 840 mm on sheet 285 x 890 mm Provenance: Donation: G S Keesing

Date: 1840-1981

From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Maori Manuscripts Librarian working notes

Reference: MS-Papers-6373-06

Description: Contains 3 photocopies of an essay about the Maori occupation of Otahuhu and the Auckland district up to 1840. Also contains an essay in Maori about the Maori perspective of the Treaty of Waitangi Working notes compiled by librarians working with Maori materials in the Manuscripts Section of the Library during the late 1970s and 1980s. Most of the work was done by Sharon Dell. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1859

From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0075-002

Description: Contents include corrspondence, mostly from the Native Land Purchase Dept Auckland, relating to Maori land claims and purchases from Auckland to Northland.

Date: 1844 - 1890 - 1969

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Heritage Fine Prints; Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: D-001-023

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A 1969 photomechanical reproduction, taken from a lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. Print no 142 of an edition of 1000 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of tinted lithograph in two colours 205 x 794 mm (image) on sheet 293 x 876 mm

Date: 1911

From: Ormsby family : Papers

By: Wahanui, Hari H, active 1917

Reference: MSY-5005

Description: Contains manuscript minutes notes of the Maori development hui (1911) which was hosted by Ngati Maniapoto in Te Kuiti and which was attended by people like Sir Apirana Ngata and Peter Buck and which addressed issues such as the future development of the Maori people and Maori culture and the impact of law and religion. Accompanying material - Partial transcription contained in folder MS-Papers-6889-1 but excludes pages 45-52 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1858

By: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922

Reference: MapColl-832.2at/1858/Acc.377

Description: Map of Taranaki district depicting Maori geographical placenames around the coastline from Ngati Maniapoto, Ngati Maru, Taranaki and Ngati Whatua. Similar to but not identical with ms map held by Alexander Turnbull Library (see Acc.376). Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 22 x 18 cm.

Date: 1845, n d

From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0075-089

Description: Includes hand written explanation by Matiaha Tiramorehu (Ngai Tahu) why his wife, Pirihira Pi, committed suicide, with note by Elsdon Best attached. Includes waiata tangi for Pirihira on last page. Also includes an early version [1845] of the waiata `Tera ia nga tai o Honipaka', sung by the Ngati Toa in 1821 on their departure from Kawhia - with some small differences. Includes a manuscript written in Maori titled `He pukapuka whakapapa tupuna no Ngati Whatua'. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1873-1876

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B040

Description: Contains a list of owners of blocks of land in the Wanganui district, and a number of narratives about; significant events in the history of Ngati Kahungunu, Moriori settlement on the Chatham Islands, events in Hawaiki and subsequent migrations and settlements, the burning of the Te Arawa canoe, and conflicts in the 1820s and 1830s involving Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Porou, Ngapuhi, Rangitane, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa Physical Description: ¼ maroon black boards, 33 cm., vol numbered 26

Date: May-Nov 1907

From: Keys, Ben, 1878-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0407-24

Description: Contains numerous letters from Keys to friends and family members that provide detailed information about his travels through the lower North Island, and through the Far North; there are detailed descriptions of the countryside which Keys travels through, and discussions of people that he meets; there are also discussions of Maori customs and practicees that he experiences and his impressions of them; there are also some comments about the work that Keys undertakes in the Maori Land Courts Page 86 has been removed from the letterbook Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1857 - 1858

By: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922

Reference: MapColl-832.2at/1858/Acc.376

Description: Map of Taranaki district depicting Maori geographical placenames around the coastline from Ngati Maniapoto, Ngati Maru, Taranaki and Ngati Whatua. Enlargement of original. `Diary of a journey to Taupo, Rotorua, Rangitikei from Taranaki' by S. Percy Smith, (New Plymouth, 1858) was republished as 'An 1858 journey into the interior' by S. Percy Smith (New Plymouth: Taranaki Herald, 1953). Similar to but not identical with a ms map (see copy Acc. 377) held by New Plymouth Public Library. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 40 x 32 cm.

From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0075-079

Description: Assorted whakapapa mostly from Ngati Porou and Ngati Kahungunu with some additional whakapapa for Ngati Whatua/ Te Roroa. Strong focus on descent from Tiki Matua, Rangi and Papa, and Whatonga. Also includes a A3 sheet of assorted whakapapa with no apparent coherent string across various tribes. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1995

From: Ngā Puna Waihanga: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-9430-060

Description: Contains correspondence, reports and articles relating to the 1995 national conference Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922

Reference: qMS-1833

Description: The volume contains the following original manuscripts by S Percy Smith: Sketch of the history of Ruatoki in the 19th century, pages 1-20 (pages 18-20 are in the handwriting of Elsdon Best) - Incidents in the history of the Ngati Whatua tribe, pages 21-22 - Wars of the northern against the southern tribes of New Zealand in the nineteenth century, pages 23-58 (these are pages 1-45 of the first edition of the printed work) - Paper on the origin of the Polynesian Race written as an introduction to a paper by Joshua Rutland which was published by the New Zealand Institute but without Smith's introduction. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (63 pages). Physical Description: Holograph and ms (29 cm; red cloth)

Date: 1972

By: Hooker, Garry, 1939-2022

Reference: MS-Papers-1030

Description: Notes on songs in Sir Apirana Ngata's "Nga Moteatea", based on whakapapa book compiled by Piipi Tiopira and Maori Land Court records. Other Titles - Nga Moteatea Quantity: 1 folder(s) (15 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1954-1976

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-139

Description: Notes, minutes and papers relating to Orakei Marae, and its development by the Orakei Development and Education Centre Inc. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1943-1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Centennial Publications Branch : Historical Atlas material

Reference: MS-Papers-0230-008

Description: Correspondence and letters concerning the history and activities of whalers in New Zealand during the early and mid 18th century. Mostly concerns activities in Northland, Kawhia and Tauranga. Also includes extracts of verbatim evidence from various Maori from these districts. Also includes whakapapa for the Kennedy family from Ngati Porou, and biographical information for the Kennedy, Mair, Clendon, Tapsell & other families. Includes census of Europeans residing in Northern District, 1846 (from Clendon mss in Auckland Public Library) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.