Pounamu
Greenstone
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Date:
[ca 1984]
From:
Sheffield House Publications Collection
Ref:
PA12-11294
Description:
Includes - Oriental styled mask in wood. Two ornamental forms in greenstone. Studio pottery laid out on a floor. Studio pottery exhibition in unidentified...
Date:
1959 - 1960
By:
Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.); C M Banks Ltd; Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964
Ref:
Eph-D-MAORI-1960-01
Description:
A single sheet calendar shows a picture by E Mervyn Taylor, of a Maori treasure box or wakahuia, whose lid is being held in two hands. Above the box are the...
Date:
1993
By:
Māori Women's Welfare League
Ref:
Eph-D-MAORI-1993-07
Description:
A poster announcing a conference of indigenous women. Shows the stylised heads of five indigenous women in profile, the one at the left facing right, and the...
Date:
[1940-1986]
From:
McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Papers
Ref:
MS-Papers-6717-132
Description:
Corrected typescript of George Graham's `Ngatoro-I-Rangi; his ascent of Tongariro and the neighbouring mountains' translated from the manuscript account of W...
Date:
[ca 1910-1915]
From:
Wheeler, Polly, active 2016-2017: Framed photographs relating to the McMillan family of Kōputaroa
Ref:
PAColl-D-1606
Description:
Portrait of Hone (John) Robert McMillan, painting on a photographic base, circa 1910 to 1925. He wears a suit with a greenstone ornament [pekapeka?] on a cha...
Date:
[ca 1910-1935]
From:
Donne, Thomas Edward, 1860-1945 : Papers
Ref:
qMS-0619
Description:
Contains photographs, magazine and newspaper cuttings relating to tikis, pendants and other artifacts created out of jade by the Maori. Many of the illustrat...
Date:
[ca 1820-1965]
From:
Kemp family : Records of the Kemp family and St James's Church, Kerikeri
Ref:
Micro-MS-0097-1
Description:
Names not already attached to collection record have been added to name field
Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive.
Finding Aids: See inventory for full ...
Date:
1882
From:
Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]
Ref:
E-328-f-089-4
Description:
Shows a Maori woman with greenstone tiki round her neck, and greenstone earings. She is wearing a flax cloak
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Maori wom...
Date:
1844 - 1888 - 1891
From:
Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890
By:
Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Kirkwood, Henry William, 1854-1925
Ref:
B-110-021-1
Description:
Shows full-length figure of Hongi Hongi (a.k.a. Nga Toki), wearing mats or blankets, a greenstone earring, and holding a greenstone mere in his right hand. H...
Date:
1844 - 1847
From:
Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.
By:
Hawkins, W, active 1847
Ref:
PUBL-0014-11
Description:
Shows full-length figure of Hongi Hongi (a.k.a. Nga Toki), wearing mats or blankets, a greenstone earring, and holding a greenstone mere in his right hand. H...
Date:
[1930-1940]
From:
Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Ref:
MS-Papers-6061-13
Description:
Contents comprise sketch plan of Waipatu Island pa, Lake Horowhenua; ponds (?) and umu sites near State Farm Road, sth of Lake Horowhenua; eel storage tank a...
Date:
ca 1960
Ref:
PAColl-6586
Description:
12 views of Westland: three showing gold mining tailings and the work done to reuse the land; two of a Dominic aircraft, one at Haast aerodrome and one at Fr...
Date:
2002
By:
Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)
Ref:
H-666-001/014
Description:
Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues.
Quantity: 14 photocopy/ies.
Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size
Date:
1980
From:
Westra, Ans, 1936-: Photographs
Ref:
AW-2010
Description:
All frames show people who are attending an event, possibly a poukai (Kīngitanga ceremony), at Tūrangawaewae (Identified from previous images at AW-1998 show...
Date:
[1880s-1900s?]
From:
Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection
By:
Iles, James, active 1878; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Ref:
PA1-o-518
Description:
Includes photographs of Maori artefacts in museum context.
Possibly created by James Edge-Partington, an anthropologist who studied artefacts in New Zealand ...
Date:
1971
From:
Westra, Ans, 1936-: Photographs
Ref:
AW-0261
Description:
Frames 1 to 10 show men working in a greenstone factory in Hokitika. Frames 11 and 12 were taken in the Working Men's Club in Hokitika (later Hokitika Charte...
Date:
1985
From:
Sheffield House Publications Collection
By:
Jacobs, Warren, active 1970s-2000s
Ref:
PA12-11386
Description:
Photographs of a greenstone pendant, and a view of the Arahura River, Westland.
Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies.
Date:
[ca1985-ca2000]
From:
Nunns, Richard, 1945-: Collection
Ref:
PAColl-9112-4
Description:
Box includes promotional photographs of Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns, (probably taken in the 1990s), photographs of a woven and decorated shaman's bag ...
Date:
1 Feb 1996 - 01 Feb 1996
From:
Artists of Banks Peninsula oral history project
By:
Beckwith, Jeff, active 1996
Ref:
OHInt-0408-03
Description:
Talks of childhood on West Coast and how he and schoolfriend, Ian Bostridge, became interested in jade. Discusses the mystique of jade and the artistic proce...
Date:
1893, n d
From:
Haast family: Collection
Ref:
MS-Papers-0037-276
Description:
Accounts of a visit to greenstone sites on the West Coast. Also includes cutting of a lecture by H D Skinner on greenstone.