Taonga puoro

Date: [2000s?]

From: Estate of Richard Nunns: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12726-2

Description: Comprises handwritten notes enclosed within "Māori life in Aotea", from the estate of Richard Nunns. Notes may be associated with Nunns' music recordings, and include: - An brief index of Māori terms relating to the natural world and atua. - Notes relating to whakapapa of Tangaroa, Tane, Tinirau, Hine-te-iwaiwa, and others. - Paper bookmark from Q Books, Nelson. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: Separated for storage reasons from MSX-10091.

Date: 1973-1990s

From: Ngā Puna Waihanga: Records

By: Ngā Puna Waihanga (Organization); Hanly, Gillian Mary, 1934?-; Los Angeles County Natural History Museum; Miller, John Meredith, 1950-

Reference: PAColl-10676-6

Description: Photographic prints and proof sheets relating to conferences, workshops and events of Ngā Puna Waihanga from 1973 to 2006, taken by John Miller and Gil Hanly and possibly other unidentified photographers. Includes images of the 1973 hui at Te Kaha, taken by John Miller, of Rowley Habib, Paki Cherrington, Emily Karaka, Haare Williams and Sonny Waru; also images of the 1974 hui at Wairoa, by John Miller, of Miki Wairoa, Robin White, and Leslie Boyles. Also some undated photographs of a hui at Parihaka (1994?) and various other hui (possibly taken by Gil Hanly) including images of adults and children playing taonga puoro (Māori instruments), and people performing (haka, music and theatre), weaving, carving and clay work. Also includes some images of artworks, and portraits of artists, including Selwyn Muru, Jacob Scott, and also Te Atairangikaahu, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, and others; and some images of Para Matchitt, taken by the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, sent to Averil Herbert in June 1989. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: These photographs were originally stored in boxes, but not labelled and sorted according to which National conferences they related to. Quantity: 51 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). Processing information: The items in this box have been processed, grouped, and ordered according to their original order.

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.)

Reference: 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 and the Pacific. This volume is in the same style of album, with similar photographs and articles as Webster album 4 (PA1-o-519) which has Edge-Partington's named bookplate inside the front cover. Studies of a variety of artefacts including an instrument giving a decoy call for kiwi; a sea leopard's tooth carved and worn as a pendant (from Stewart Island); whale teeth pendants; weapons; tools; carved waka, prows of waka; carved meeting houses; Te Kooti's house "Te Waho"; carved storehouses; a Maori kite; eel traps and fish hooks. The artefacts are from various collections in New Zealand and overseas, including the Chapman Collection, the Hamilton Collection, the Hocken Collection and General Robley's Collection. Cuttings from articles written by James Edge-Partington from anthropological journals are inserted in the album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Abum with dark grey cover; 26 x 21 cm

Date: 1999

By: Greenwood, Barrie L, active 1954-1998

Reference: PAColl-5976

Description: Quantity: 7 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1 April 1978

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1978/1274-F

Description: Roger Neich and Ross O'Rourke (right), ethnologists at the National Museum, Wellington, New Zealand, hold one of the panels of Maori artifacts in an exhibition being sent to China. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 1st of April 1978. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. O'Rourke identified by Library client as being on the right. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1998

From: Whitehead, Gillian, 1941- : Collection

By: Creative New Zealand; Johnston, Christine, 1950-

Reference: fMS-Papers-11893-27

Description: Pencil score for Act 2 (first half) of Outrageous Fortune, a chamber opera in two acts, for taonga puoro (Maori instruments) one or two players, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion, 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos, double bass; 6 singers (soloists). Taonga puoro which feature in this part of the score include koauau koiwi tangata, koauau pounamu, koauau kuri, and putorino. Commissioned by the Otago Commemorative Opera Group - Te Atamira Whakamaumahara - to commemorate the sesquicentenary of the found of the City of Dunedin and the Province of Otago in 1848, with funding from Creative New Zealand. This section of the full score is page 1 through to page 113 of the first half of Act 2). It includes stage directions, and some photocopied parts pasted in. Language - Some of the text is written in Maori Language - some of the text is written in English Language - Some of the text is written in Chinese Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1998

From: Whitehead, Gillian, 1941- : Collection

By: Creative New Zealand; Johnston, Christine, 1950-

Reference: fMS-Papers-11893-29

Description: Pencil score for Act II, part 3, of Outrageous Fortune, a chamber opera in two acts, for taonga puoro (Maori instruments) one or two players, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion, 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos, double bass; 6 singers (soloists). Taonga puoro included in this part of the score include purerehua, puharakeke (written as pupu harakeke), karanga manu, and putorino. Commissioned by the Otago Commemorative Opera Group - Te Atamira Whakamaumahara - to commemorate the sesquicentenary of the found of the City of Dunedin and the Province of Otago in 1848, with funding from Creative New Zealand. This section of the full score is page 125 through to page 246. It includes stage directions, and some photocopied parts pasted in. This script is dated at the end "Sydney, July 17, 1998". Language - Some of the text is written in Maori Language - some of the text is written in English Language - Some of the text is written in Chinese Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1998

From: Whitehead, Gillian, 1941- : Collection

By: Creative New Zealand; Johnston, Christine, 1950-

Reference: fMS-Papers-11893-28

Description: Pencil score for Act II, part 2, of Outrageous Fortune, a chamber opera in two acts, for taonga puoro (Maori instruments) one or two players, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion, 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos, double bass; 6 singers (soloists). Taonga puoro which feature in this part of the score include puharakeke, porotiti, poi awhiowhio, koauau (various types including koiwi tangata, maire, pounamu and koiwi kuri), tangi manu, karanga manu and putatara. Commissioned by the Otago Commemorative Opera Group - Te Atamira Whakamaumahara - to commemorate the sesquicentenary of the found of the City of Dunedin and the Province of Otago in 1848, with funding from Creative New Zealand. This section of the full score is page 1 through to page 124, of the second half of Act 2. The remaining section of the second half of Act 2 is in the following folder (fMS-Papers-11893-29). The ms includes stage directions, and some photocopied parts pasted in. Language - Some of the text is written in Maori Language - some of the text is written in English Language - Some of the text is written in Chinese Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1998

From: Whitehead, Gillian, 1941- : Collection

By: Creative New Zealand; Johnston, Christine, 1950-

Reference: fMS-Papers-11893-25

Description: Pencil score for Act I, part 1, of Outrageous Fortune, a chamber opera in two acts, for taonga puoro (Maori instruments) one or two players, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion, 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos, double bass; 6 singers (soloists). The taonga puoro which feature in this part of the score include putatara, poi awhiowhio (written poi awhiuwhiu in the score), koauau, tumutumu, koiwi ponga ihu (written as iwi ponga ihu), pakuru (sometimes written as panguru in the score), and pu kaea. The score also includes a karanga. Commissioned by the Otago Commemorative Opera Group - Te Atamira Whakamaumahara - to commemorate the sesquicentenary of the found of the City of Dunedin and the Province of Otago in 1848, with funding from Creative New Zealand. This section of the full score is page 1 through to page 126 of Act 1. It includes stage directions, and some photocopied parts pasted in. Language - Some of the text is written in Maori Language - some of the text is written in English Language - Some of the text is written in Chinese characters and romanised Chinese text Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1998

From: Whitehead, Gillian, 1941- : Collection

By: Creative New Zealand; Johnston, Christine, 1950-

Reference: fMS-Papers-11893-26

Description: Pencil score for Act I, part 2, of Outrageous Fortune, a chamber opera in two acts, for taonga puoro (Maori instruments) one or two players, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion, 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos, double bass; 6 singers (soloists). The taonga puoro featured in this part of the score include pupurangi harakeke, koauau, tumutumu, porotiti, putorino, and pukaea. Commissioned by the Otago Commemorative Opera Group - Te Atamira Whakamaumahara - to commemorate the sesquicentenary of the found of the City of Dunedin and the Province of Otago in 1848, with funding from Creative New Zealand. This section of the full score is page 127 through to page 255, of the second half of Act 1. It includes stage directions, and some photocopied parts pasted in. Language - Includes a small amount of Maori text in this section, and also many Maori instrument names. Language - some of the text is written in English Language - Some of the text is written in Chinese characters, and romanised Chinese text Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: [1997]

From: Whitehead, Gillian, 1941- : Collection

By: Johnston, Christine, 1950-

Reference: fMS-Papers-11893-38

Description: Original vocal score for Outrageous Fortune, a chamber opera in two acts, for taonga puoro, six singers, and instrumental ensemble. Language - Some of the text is in Maori Language - Some of the text is in English Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 1847 - 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: C-170-002

Description: Shows 14 views of Maori domestic life, including tools, clothing and household receptacles. Accompanying page of text (C-170-002-1) lists the numbered items as follows: 1. Mode of fishing with nets on Lake Taupo: the fish, which are still small, are caught in a seine with very fine meshes, and a pole about 20 feet long, with tufts of grass fastened at the end, to drive the fish into the net. 2. A fishing weir, or eel pah, on the river Mokau. 3. Wooden fish-hook. 4. Fish-hook generally in use, made of wood, with a layer of pawa [i.e. paua], or pearl shell (Haliotis), and the hook formed of human bone. A feather of the kivi kivi (Apteryx Australis) is fastened at the extremity. The lines are of flax and, as these hooks dangle astern of the canoes, the glittering appearance of the pawa attracts the fish. 5. Kupenga, or eel trap, formed of twigs, from Mokau. 6. Ko, a wooden spade, for rooting up ferns, and preparing the ground for plantations. 7. A pestle for beating flax, formed of volcanic trap. 8. Wooden flute, one of the orifices of which is tattooed to resemble the lips of a woman. 9. Bark bucket, and calabashes for holding water: the orifices of these latter are also tattooed in a similar manner. 10. Ornamented flax basket for household purposes. 11. E kumeti, ancient wooden bowl for kumeras, from the deserted pah of Otawhao, near Waipa, eight feet in circumference. 12. and 13. Flax sandals from Otago, in the Southern Island. 14. Portrait of an aged slave woman, at Pouketouto, in the interior, beyond Mokau Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Other Titles - and Extended Title - From: Angas, George French. The New Zealanders illustrated (London; Thomas M'Lean No. 26 Haymarket, 1847). Plate 57 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) (14 images on one page). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 455 x 310 mm, on sheet 545 x 365 mm Provenance: Purchase: Cordy's antique and art auction, Auckland, 21 May 2013; lot 665

Date: 1995

From: Ngā Puna Waihanga: Records

By: Hanly, Gillian Mary, 1934?-

Reference: PAColl-10676-4

Description: Photographs taken by Gil Hanly at the Ngā Puna Waihanga hui at Ōtūrei Marae, near Dargaville in 1995; workshops held at Te Houhanga Marae near Dargaville, and Matatina Marae in the Waipoua Forest; and an exhibition opening in Whangarei. Images include performances, uku (pottery), taonga puoro, pōwhiri, weaving, sculpture, and the opening of the Mana Wahine exhibition in Whangārei. Also includes a note written by Averil Herbert to Ata Putaranui relating to the process of ordering copies of the images from Gil Hanly. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 31 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1993

From: Ngā Puna Waihanga: Records

By: Hanly, Gillian Mary, 1934?-; Miller, John Meredith, 1950-

Reference: PAColl-10676-5

Description: Photographs taken by Gil Hanly and John Miller at the Ngā Puna Waihanga hui at Te Kaha in 1993. Images include performances, pōwhiri, weaving, sculpture, bronze casting, taonga puoro, making crayfish pots (basketry), group portraits, and images of woven kete and pōtae. People include Fred and Brett Graham, George Andrews, Lionel Grant, Wi Taepa, Ross Hemara, Grace Voller, Omaio Weavers, Jacob Scott, and Wellington Drama School. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 31 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1989-1994

From: Ngā Puna Waihanga: Records

By: Ngā Puna Waihanga (Organization)

Reference: PAColl-10676-7

Description: Photographic prints relating to conferences, and exhibitions of Ngā Puna Waihanga including national conferences at Rātana Pā in 1989, Te Kaha in 1993 and Dargaville in 1994. Includes images of Te Aue Davis (weaving), Apirana Taylor, Rangimoana Taylor, Donna Hall, Baye Riddell, Mika, and Ngapine Te Ao (later Ngapine Allen). Taken by unidentified photographers, possibly Gil Hanly and/or John Miller. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: These photographs were originally stored in boxes, but not labelled and sorted according to which National conferences they related to. Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: The items in this box have been processed, grouped, and ordered according to their original order.

Date: 28 June 2017

From: Tikao, Ariana, 1971-: Collection relating to the music of Ariana Tikao

By: Douglas, Bridget, active 1994-2017; Fraser, Alistair, active 1999-2020; Tikao, Ariana Rahera, 1971-; Stroma (Musical group); McKeich, Hamish, active 2001-2009

Reference: MSI-Papers-12543

Description: Comprises two copies of a poster for Stroma musical performance, Tātai Whetū, held at Hannah Playhouse, 28 June 2017. Promoted as part of Wellington City's 2017 Matariki celebrations. Performances include works for Taonga Puoro and Chamber Ensemble, featuring musicians Ariana Tikao, Alistair Fraser, Bridget Douglas, and Hamish McKeich as conductor. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 2 copies of a poster. Physical Description: Colour poster, 42.0 x 61.7 cm.

Date: 2017-2019

From: Tikao, Ariana, 1971-: Collection relating to the music of Ariana Tikao

By: Tikao, Ariana Rahera, 1971-

Reference: fMS-Papers-12543

Description: Publicity material relating to musical performances featuring Ariana Tikao, 2017 to 2019. Folder comprises: - 1 Suffrage Songs Recomposed: Forward, forward, sisters! Programme booklet for Suffrage125 performance held at Hannah Playhouse, 14 October 2018. A5 sized, 14.8 x 21.0 cm. - 2 Free Radicals. Programme booklet for Suffrage125 event held at the Arts Centre of Christchurch, 29 and 30 August 2018. A4 sized, 21.0 x 29.7 cm. - 3 Mataora: Encounters between Medicine and the Arts. Double-sided programme flyer for event held at Te Papa Tongarewa, 12 October 2019. 15.0 x 21.4 cm - 4 Stroma 'Tātai Whetū', performance publicity article, Regional News newpaper exert, 13 June 2017. Printed on newsprint, A3 sized, 29.7 x 42.0 cm. - 5 Auaha, Te Pari o Auahatanga The Flood of inspiration album release. 2 copies of a poster advertising Auaha album release events, July 2017. A3 sized, 29.7 x 42.0 cm. - 6 Ponguru album release. Poster advertising Al Fraser and Phil Boniface's an album release performance, held at Pyramid Club, 6 April 2018. A3 sized, 29.7 x 42.0 cm. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 3 Programme(s) 2 booklets and 1 flyer. 3 Poster(s) 3 posters, 1 duplicate copy. 1 Newspaper(s) 4 pages, double fold extert.

Date: 1993-

By: Tikao, Ariana Rahera, 1971-

Reference: ATL-Group-00540

Description: Papers and photographs relating the musical career of Ariana Tikao, both solo and collaborative projects, including the Christchurch based folk music group, Pounamu. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 folder(s). 13 colour original photographic print(s). 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheet (containing 18 images). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera (Monochrome tax invoice with alternate name of donor). 3 videocassette(s).

Date: 1855, [ca 1899-1931]

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0072-04

Description: Identifiable correspondents entered in Name Field. Includes Preface to Second Edition of `Memorandum' by Sir George Grey, 1855 with newspaper cutting relating to Maori manuscripts in the Cape Museum (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa). Letter from Gilbert Mair to Augustus Hamilton re Maori musical instruments, 1900. Letter to A Hamilton from J H Menzies (1899) regarding the trapping of birds including weka. Language - Some of these pieces are in Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1957 - 1958

From: [Turner, Dennis Knight], 1924-2011 :[Illustrations for Legends of Rotorua and the hot lakes. 1958?]

Reference: A-060-060

Description: Shows a sentry blowing a long trumpet (pukaea) as a warning that the enemy were approaching Mokoia Island. He had been alerted to their approach by the screeching seagulls flying overhead Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Ink, 303 x 200 cm on sheet 380 x 280 cm