Ngāti Hourua

Ngāti Hourua is a hapu of Tainui perhaps comprised of Maori loyal to the Crown and the European settlers during the New Zealand Wars in the Waikato region

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[Artist unknown] :[Sketches of a Maori muru at Parawera, Waikato, by an unknown Maori a...

Date: 1860 - 1900

By: Mair, Gilbert, 1843-1923; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-081-001/006

Description: Sketches depicting incidents arising out of a taua or raiding party visiting Parawera settlement to exact revenge after a case of adultery. The marae, various groupings of iwi, dances, fights, haka, horseriding, and competitions are depicted, along with a visit from the police. The Parawera group were Ngati Apakura, Te Wherowhero's iwi, and the visitors in search of payment were Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Hourua and Ngati Koroki. Ngati Haua are also mentioned in one sketch. Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper ca 230 x 320 mm Provenance: Given to Alexander Turnbull in 1913 by Gilbert Mair. See covering letter of 17 November 1913 in MS 57, Folder 64. A typescript copy is held with the drawings in Box A-081. Mair ironically compares the artist to the French portraitist of Napoleon, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

Manuscript

Whakapapa, love, coronation and education

Date: 1941-1959

From: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5220-011

Description: Includes whakapapa on most iwi by waka, a parliamentary speech `The Maori Magna Carta', the creation of the `Maori Education Foundation' and the `Primary School Bulletin'; also includes a letter from Te Puea Herangi and a sympathetic letter from a woman who had an affair with a married man, Wally Jones Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

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Letter from Wi Te Morehu (Wi Te Wheoro) to McLean

Date: 12 May 1870

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

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0694B-11

Description: Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).

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Letter from Manuwhiri to Te Wheoro (with translation)

Date: 24 May 1870

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

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0694B-25

Description: Letter advising Te Wheoro that messengers of peace are being sent to waring tribes around the country Accompanying material - Includes modern translation by an unknown person and date is unknown Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).

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Letter from Wi Te Wheoro to Te Kai

Date: 29 Apr 1873

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

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0697B-03

Description: Quantity: 1 piece (1 page on 1 leaf).

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[Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976] :Tainui area [map with ms annotations]. 1820-1863.

Date: 1820 - 1863

By: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976; Roydhouse, Judith Beverley, 1921-1999; Roydhouse, Garth Sutherland, 1912-1981

Reference: MapColl-832.14ecde/1820-1863/Acc.26083

Description: Drawn on a published map, depicting location of Waikato tribes during period 1820 - 1863, Maori placenames, some historical information (such as conquest dates). Numbered Waikato areas correspond to key indicating relevant tribal iwi. Major (non-Waikato) tribal areas are delineated alphabetically, for example Hauraki or Ngati Toa tribes. Drawn by Pei Te Hurinui possibly for proposed Centennial Historical Atlas. Possibly drawn between 1937 and 1945. Probably originally intended to form part of the Centennial Historical Atlas collection. See also photocopied version (on three A3 sheets) MapColl-832.14ecde/1820-1863/Acc.26083 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil on dressed linen, 63 x 50 cm.

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Letter from Manuhiri to Te Morehu

Date: 28 Jan 1870

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

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0694A-07

Description: Quantity: 1 piece (3 pages on 2 leaves).

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Letter from Eruera Hurutara to McLean

Date: 14 Jun 1872

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

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0696C-05

Description: Quantity: 1 piece (1 page on 1 leaf).

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Jennifer Shennan - He Haka hou; a new dance - Maori waiata and composition

Date: [1980-1984]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-076

Description: Duplicated draft of Shennan's `He Haka hou, a new dance; the development of Maori action song', published in 1984. Chapters on Maori dance, early European evaluations; the development of the action song in the 20th century; waiata-a-ringa, Maori action-song as a dance form; choreography of movement analysis of action-song; images of dance amongst stylized figures of Maori wood-carving; depiction of dance in legend and mythology and Pacific dance studies in the classroom. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript Typescript with ms annotations