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Adkin album 13
- Date
- Early 1900s to 1931
- Reference
- PA1-q-002
- Description
Maori place names and old historical sites of Horowhenua (Vol. 1, images 1-146). Album includes maps, diagrams & sketches, and black & white photographs.
Views include Paremata Redoubt, Lake Horowhenua, carved pātaka at Papaitonga Pā. Views of Komokorau, the burial place of Mua-Upoko chiefs including Chief Mahuera Paki Tanguru-o-te-rangi; Lake Wai-tawa and Te Moutere (formerly a fortified island pā).
Place names & historic features of Kapiti Island, including relics of whaling days at Wharekohu Bay showing ruins of stone house, stone walls and a stone-embanked stream channel, burial caves, Waiorua Valley showing the approximate site of Te Rauparaha's principal pā, and Motungārara Island where there was a subsidiary pā of Te Rauparaha. Ōtaki, Rangiātea Church (1925); carved whare at Puke-Karaka; Ōtaki Jubilee Pole; and old meeting house Uawhaki at Waikawa. The site of the old Māori flour-mill on the Waitarere Stream at Poroutawhao, which was built in 1853 or 1854 under the direction of a French priest.
Several images of performers competing in the haka and poi competitions at Shannon, 2 January 1928. Images of Pākehā pioneers of Horowhenua (Hector McDonald and his wife Agnes (nee Carmont)), and a photograph of Rora Hakaraia, daughter of Mua-Upoko chief Tanguru, and sister of Te Rangihiwinui (also known as Taitoko, and later as Te Keepa or Major Kemp). The photograph of Rora Hakaraia was taken from a painting in the possession of Rod A. McDonald of Levin.
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Quantity: 1 album(s).
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- Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
- Format
- 1 album(s), Photographs, Maps
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Map of historic sites and old place names of Horowhenua
Date: 1931
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
By: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964
Reference: PA1-q-002-27-map
Description: Map of historic sites and old place names of Horowhenua drawn by George Leslie Adkin in 1931.
Map of place names and historic sites, Horowhenua district
Date: 1931
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
By: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964
Reference: PA1-q-002-30-map
Description: Map of place names and historic sites of Horowhenua, from the lower Ohau River to Waiorongomai ares drawn by George Leslie Adkin in 1931.
Lake Horowhenua
Date: 2 June 1929
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-002-106
Description: Lake Horowhenua, showing the former island pa of Waikiekie and Roha-a-te-kawau joined to the shore after artificial lowering of the lake level. Photograph taken 2 June 1929 by G L Adkin. Right part of 2-part panorama with PA1-q-002-105. Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - "The old order changeth" - Lake Horowhenua shewing the former island-pa of Waikiekie and Roha-a-te-kawau joined to the shore as a result of the recent artificial lowering of the level of the lake. 2.6.29 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 103 x 154 mm mounted on album page
Hamaria canoe on Lake Horowhenua
Date: 8 June 1926
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-002-072
Description: Taueki family fishing for eels on Lake Horowhenua aboard the Hamaria canoe, the last war canoe on the lake. Photograph taken 6 June 1926 by G L Adkin. Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - 72 & 73. The Hamaria canoe - the last of the old war-canoes on lake Horowhenua, now used by the Taueki family for eel-spearing. Length cof canoe about 60 ft. 8.6.26 Arrangement: Image in PA1-q-002 on page 15 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.5 x 15.3 cm, mounted on album page
Mrs Kuiti
Date: 1925
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
By: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964
Reference: PA1-q-002-086
Description: Portrait of Mrs Kuiti photographed at Muhunoa kainga on the south-western shore of Lake Papaitonga, Horowhenua, by George Leslie Adkin in 1925 Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002. Source of descriptive information - Notes in album. Note that a Library client states that Adkin's information regarding Mrs Kuiti's iwi/hapu is wrong, and that the correct iwi/hapu are Ngati Kikopiri and Ngati Pareraukawa of Ngati Raukawa. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - 85 & 86. Youth and age: Members of the Ngati-Tukorehe hapu of Ngati-Raukawa living at Muhunoa kainga on the south-western shore of Papaitonga. Left Mai Tahaia; right: Mrs Kuiti. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Map of place names and historic sites, Horowhenua district
Date: 1931
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-002-18-MAP
Description: Map of place names and historic sites of Horowhenua, showing Waitarere and the Hydrabad wreck, drawn by George Leslie Adkin in 1931 Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002.
Eel-basket (hinaki) constructed of tokororaro vine, at the Hokio Stream. Mua-upoko craf...
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-002-083
Description: Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002.
Tauataruru, Lake Horowhenua
Date: 11 September 1929
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-002-125
Description: View of Lake Horowhenua and surrounding country, showing Tauataruru (the small knoll in the centre, on the lakeside), the site of one of the carved posts marking the southern boundary of the original block of land ceded to the Muaupoko tribe by Te Whatanui. Photograph taken 11 September 1929 by G L Adkin. Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Tauataruru (the small knoll in centre on lakeside) - the site of one of the great carved posts marking the southern boundary of the original block of land ceded to the Mua-upoko tribe by Te Whatanui ("Te Hekenga", p 18). 11.9.29 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 105 x 153 mm mounted on album page
Lake Horowhenua from its north-eastern end
Date: 20 June 1926
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-002-071
Description: Lake Horowhenua from its north-eastern end, showing Kapu clearing (extreme left, background), Ngurunguru canoe-landing (left background), Kouturoa (left of centre, background), te Rae-o-te-karaka pa (right, background) and Paringatai (extreme right, background). The knoll in the foreground marks the former position of the Kawiu canoe-landing. The flat foreshore beyond the fence was exposed by the lowering of the lake level. Photograph taken 20 June 1926 by G L Adkin. Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Lake Horowhenua from its north-eastern end. The knoll in foreground marks the former position of the Kawiu canoe-landing. (The flat foreshore beyond the fence is due to the recent lowering of the lake-level.) 20.6.26; Album page - above image - Kapu clearing; Album page - above image - Ngurunguru canoe-landing; Album page - above image - Kouturoa; Album page - above image - Te Rae-o-te-karaka pa; Album page - above image - Paringatai Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 2 toned silver gelatin prints forming panorama 99 x 300 mm, mounted on album page
Maori storehouse Te Takinga at Lake Papaitonga, near Levin
Date: ca 1906
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-002-017
Description: Pataka (Maori storehouse) Te Takinga at Lake Papaitonga, circa 1906, photographed by George Leslie Adkin. Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Carved pataka at Papai-tonga showing intricate and masterly craftsmanship of the old style. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11.1 x 15 cm, on album page