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Adkin album 13
- Date
- Early 1900s to 1931
- Reference
- PA1-q-002
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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
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- 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
Hokio Stream and the outlet of Lake Horowhenua
Date: [191-?]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-002-007
Description: Hokio Stream and the outlet of Lake Horowhenua. Photograph taken circa 1910s by G L Adkin. Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002. Source of descriptive information - Notes underneath print in album Other Titles - Porirua Harbour Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Hokio Stream and the outlet of Lake Horo-whenua Arrangement: In album PA1-q-002, on page 2 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 6.9 x 11.1 cm, on album page
Waiorua Valley, Kapiti Island, showing the approximate site of Te Rauparaha's principal pa
Date: February 1921
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-002-059
Description: Shows the approximate location of the Ngati Toa fortified pa "Tawhiri-a-Taka" in the Waiorua Valley, Kapiti Island. Adkin mistakenly identified the pa (on the site of the dwelling and shed) as the approximate site of Te Rauparaha's principal pa. However, Te Rauparaha never occupied any part of the northern end of Kapiti Island. The Waiorua (northern block) of Kapiti was properly occupied by the chiefs Te Pehi Kupe, Te Rangihiroa, Te Hiko, Tungia, Pokaitara, Te Tahua Rene and others. Taken by George Leslie Adkin in February 1921. Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - 59. Waiorua valley shewing approximate site of Te Rauparaha's principal pa during his occupation of the island. Farther up the valley is the site of a much more ancient pa. Another of the old whaling stations was located a little to the south of Waiorua Stm. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Portrait of Mai Tahaia
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-002-085
Description: Portrait of Mai Tahaia photographed by George Leslie Adkin in 1925 Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002. Information given by Adkin with the photograph states that Mai Tahaia was a member of the Ngati Tukorehe hapu of Ngati Raukawa living at Muhunoa kainga on the south-western shore of [Lake] Papaitonga Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Pipiriki Pa, on the western shore of 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-002-126
Description: View of Pipiriki Pa, built 1871-1872 on the western shore of Lake Horowhenua by Keepa Te Rangihiwinui as part of a campaign by Muaupoko against Ngati Raukawa. 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: Marginal notes on negative - beneath image - Pipiriki Pa - thje stronghold erected on the western shore of Lake Horowhenua by Kepa Rangihiwinui (Major Kemp) in 1871 or '72, in an attempt by the Mua-upoko to throw off the Ngati Raukawa yoke. The former stockades, whare sites, rua, fighting tower &c, are now represented by hummocks and hollows of sand. (For description of Pipiriki pa see "Te Hekenga", p.137). 11.9.29 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 81 x 149 mm mounted on album page
Porirua Harbour and Paremata, Wellington
Date: [191-?]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-002-02
Description: Porirua Harbour and Paremata. Shows the ruins of the Paremata Redoubt in the distance, just above centre. Photograph taken circa 1910s by G L Adkin. Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002. Source of descriptive information - Notes underneath print in album Other Titles - Porirua Harbour Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Porirua Harbour. - The correct spelling is Pari-rua - two flowing tides. (High tide flowing into this double-headed inlet, divided, at the Narrows and a tidal "wave" ran up each of the arms, hence the name). The view shows the postition of the Paremata Redoubt - in centre. Arrangement: In album PA1-q-002, on page 1 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 9.2 x 15.4 cm, on album page
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.
Carved maihi and amo of Uawhaki meeting house, Waikawa
Date: 1926
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-002-078
Description: The carve maihi (barge board) and amo (vertical post) of Uawhaki meeting house at Waikawa. This house was on Whakahoro Road, Manakau, Photograph taken 15 August 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 - right of image - The old meeting house called Uawhaki at Waikawa. Carved maihi (barge board) and amo (vertical post) of same on left.... 15.8.26 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 149 x 107 mm mounted on album page