Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909

Date: 1898 - 1875 - 1905 - 1877

By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909

Reference: A-255-008

Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of Major Kemp in uniform. He is shown with a full beard, and the New Zealand War Medal suspended from his jacket. Appears to be based on a studio photograph of Te Rangihiwinui, in about 1876, the year he received the New Zealand War Medal. See PA2-2562. Dittmer arrived in New Zealand in 1898, the year of Te Rangihiwinui's death. He returned to Germany in 1905 Title from back of work Inscriptions: Recto - title in ink, in a flowing hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink & Chinese white 225 x 171 mm Provenance: Purchase: Sotheby's auction London: 28 Nov 1975

Date: 1905

By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909; Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942; Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Weekly press (Newspaper)

Reference: C-067-001-a

Description: Portrait of Maori chief Te Heuheu V, holding a mere. He is seated in front of an elaborately carved doorway. The oil painting on which this print is based is in the collection of Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, Wellington Extended Title - Supplement to: New Zealand illustrated, the Christmas number of the Weekly Press, 1905. The following year, the 'Weekly press' Christmas supplement portrait was of Te Heuheu Tukino V's wife, Te Rerehau Kahotea (now at C-067-002). According to a descendant, Priscilla Rolleston, the marae shown is at Waihi. The carved doorway is now in Canterbury Museum. (Pers. comm. 8 September 1994) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 507 x 369 mm on sheet 622 x 435 mm

Date: [1960s]

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909

Reference: PA12-3032

Description: Transparencies showing people at Paremata, Porirua, including people kayaking and standing on the beach, taken by Cyril Beavis circa 1960s. Also includes photographs of illustrations by German artist Wilhelm Dittmer, for the publication 'Te Tohunga', a book of Maori legends. Photographed by Beavis circa 1960s. Transparencies showing illustrations by Wilhelm Dittmer are continued at PA12-3033. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "Paramata [Paremata] people" and "Maori [Māori]". Quantity: 9 colour original transparency/ies. 14 b&w original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in September 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-95.

Date: [1905-1911]

From: Dominion Museum : Historical material

Reference: fMS-Papers-6073-1

Description: Comprises papers relating to the records of the NZ Land Company and the Colonial Office that the latter was prepared to photocopy for New Zealand; correspondents indexed. Includes notes on ascent of Mt Holdsworth by BCA, subscription form for track over the Tararua mountains (1912) Language - Small amount of material in Maori (part of inward letters) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Covering note: A G Bagnall to Julia Traue, `National Archives do not appear able to locate these papers so I suggest we xerox file with second copy of Report (flagged) and AHT's letter `flagged', [?] 1966.

Date: ca 1905

By: Hamilton, Augustus, 1853-1913; Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909

Reference: PAColl-7285

Description: Two photographs of Dittmer smoking a pipe seated on a chair which is covered in a kakahu. A copy negative from a print of Dittmer holding a palette and surrounded by Maori artefacts in Augustus Hamilton's photographic studio at the Dominion Museum. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003097 to 003099 Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Transferred from the Dittmer papers MS-Papers-371.

Date: 1898 - 1905

By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909

Reference: A-255-009-2

Description: A page of records of tiki shapes and moko, mostly the moko of women, with two identified as men's. One identified as belonging to Taki Taki, one as Lady Carroll's. Includes notes Further drawings of tiki and moko on obverse, reference number A-255-009-1 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: 25 Pencil drawings, various sizes on one sheet 277 x 380 mm Provenance: Sotheby's auction London: 28.11.75

Date: 1898 - 1905

By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909

Reference: A-255-009-1

Description: A page of records of tiki shapes and one of moko. Includes notes Further drawings of moko on reverse, reference number A-255-009-2 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: 8 Pencil drawings various sizes on one sheet 277 x 380 mm Provenance: Sotheby's auction London: 28.11.75

Date: [1960s]

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-3033

Description: Photographs of illustrations by German artist Wilhelm Dittmer, for the publication 'Te Tohunga', a book of Maori legends. Photographed by Beavis circa 1960s. Also includes photographs of Māori singer Howard Morrison, taken by Beavis in the 1960s. Also includes images of Wellington Green Grocer Mun San at his workplace, standing before fruit and vegetable stalls, date unknown. Also includes photographs of women at their work places. They include meter readers, florists, stock exchange staff, shop assistants, and clothing industry employees. Photographed by Beavis in the 1960s. Transparencies showing women at their workplaces are continued at PA12-3034. Transparencies showing Howard Morrison are continued at PA12-3035 and PA12-3098. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "Maori [Māori]", "Howard Morrison", "Mun San, Green Grocer, Wellingtonn" and "Women in employment". Quantity: 6 b&w original transparency/ies. 15 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in September 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-23, PAColl-7715-68 and PAColl-7715-95.

Date: 1905-1908

By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909

Reference: MS-Papers-0371

Description: Mainly concerns the impending publication of Dittmer's Te Tohunga... (Hamburg and London, 1907) in which he was particularly encouraged by Hamilton, Director of the Colonial Museum, New Zealand. The poems are on New Zealand themes Language - Two printed cards in German Other Titles - Te Tohunga Quantity: 1 folder(s) (10 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 2 Dec 1907

By: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922

Reference: MS-Papers-3443

Description: Letter to W H S Roberts, and note by Roberts referring to W Dittmers `Te Tohunga', dated 2 Dec 1907, New Plymouth Other Titles - Te Tohunga Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1887-1958

From: Scholefield, Guy Hardy, 1877-1963 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0212-C/03A

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (33 letters). Physical Description: Holographs and typescripts Finding Aids: See inventory for a detailed listing of the letters in this folder.

Date: 1906

By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909; Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Weekly press (Newspaper); Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942

Reference: C-067-002

Description: Portrait of Maori woman Te Rerehau Kahotea (wife of Te Heuheu V) holding the "mere pahikaure", a taonga of the Ngati Tuwharetoa. She wears a feather cloak, tooth earrings, and has a chin moko. This chromolithograph was published as a companion piece to the portrait of Te Heuheu Tukino V, her husband, issued in the 'Weekly press' Christmas number of the previous year. Extended Title - Supplement to: New Zealand illustrated, the Christmas number of the Weekly Press, 1906. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Very faint]: Philip Presants Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 575 x 370 mm

From: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909 :Te Tohunga. The ancient legends and traditions of the Maoris, orally collected and pictured by W. Dittmer. London, Routledge, 1907

By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909

Reference: PUBL-0088-049

Description: An imaginative reconstruction to illustrate a legend titled Maui - the creation of New Zealand, showing Maui fishing the North Island up out of the sea. Extended Title - From: Dittmer, Wilhelm. Te Tohunga. London, Routledge, 1907, p. 49. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of ink drawing

From: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909 :Te Tohunga. The ancient legends and traditions of the Maoris, orally collected and pictured by W. Dittmer. London, Routledge, 1907

By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909

Reference: PUBL-0088-095

Description: An imaginative reconstruction to illustrate a legend titled The coming of the Maori, showing the Maori legendary country of origin, Hawaiki, with rocks, palm trees, several large canoes and a host of people waiting to embark in the distance. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of ink drawing

Date: 1905

By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909; Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942; Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Weekly press (Newspaper)

Reference: C-067-001

Description: Portrait of Maori chief Te Heuheu V, holding a mere. The oil painting on which this print is based is in the collection of Te Papa, Museum of New Zealand in Wellington Extended Title - Supplement to: New Zealand illustrated, the Christmas number of the Weekly Press, 1905. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Phil R Presants The following year, the 'Weekly press' Christmas supplement portrait was of Te Heuheu Tukino V's wife, Te Rerehau Kahotea (now at C-067-002). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 625 x 435 mm.

From: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909 :Te Tohunga. The ancient legends and traditions of the Maoris, orally collected and pictured by W. Dittmer. London, Routledge, 1907

By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909

Reference: PUBL-0088-057

Description: An imaginative reconstruction to illustrate a legend titled Maui fighting the sun, showing legendary Maori figure Maui battling with the sun, in the shape of a carved figure. Extended Title - From Dittmer, Wilhelm. Te Tohunga. London, Routledge, 1907. p. 57 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of ink drawing