Children, Māori - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1843 - 1849 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-465-009

Description: Red-coated soldiers (probably from the 58th Regiment) in the foreground, groups of Maori men and women, canoes drawn up on the shore of the Hutt River, the palisades of the pa in the background, with tall trees beyond. Several Maori are carrying bundles on their backs, possibly of potatoes, since Brees mentions 'extensive potato grounds' around the pa in his text on p.30 of Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand The date of the original is likely to be 1845, since the soldiers shown did not occupy the Hutt Valley until 1845. The pa was located on the east bank of the river close to the site of the present Melling Bridge. Brees mentions that Makaenuku Pa was built by Porirua Maori after 1840. Other Titles - Makahinuku Pa Extended Title - In: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand Plate 18, No 54; also reproduced in Brees' Guide and description of the panorama of New Zealand (London, 1849) See also at E-070-007 (digitised). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 130 x 200 mm (plate mark)

Date: 1974

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1196

Description: Frames 1 to 7 appear to show a young Māori girl having her eyes checked for vision. Frames 8 to 12 show Alister Taylor with a young woman in a room in an unidentified house. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1975

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1277

Description: All frames show families watching the Santa Christmas Parade. Frames 1 to 6 show a Māori father with his small son on his shoulders, waving a James Smiths flag. A group of families with a number of children are seen sitting on a ledge as the parade passes the Wellington Town Hall. Posters for various events are seen on the wall below. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1975

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1295

Description: All frames were taken at the Tauherenikau Racecourse. Some images show people watching from the shade of trees; some are lying in the sun reading their form lists; an older woman is seen on a bench seat with two small children on the ground beside her (frames 8 to 11); two small children are seen sitting on the base of a water fountain; and a woman wearing a sundress and large sunglasses is seen in frames 6 and 7. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1976

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1345

Description: All frames taken outside the Wellington Public Library in Mercer Street. Frame one shows a young couple sitting on a bench seat outside the building; he is wearing a strongly checked tie with short sleeved shirt, long walk socks and shoes. A family, parents and young child are seen on the lawn with the library building behind in frame 2 and 3. Two musicians, a young woman with a violin, and a young man watching her, both members of Red Mole are seen with various instruments including a large drum in frames 4 to 6; and a young Māori girl in seen in close shots in frames 8 to 11. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1976

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1342

Description: All scenes taken in the vicinity of the Wellington Public Library in Mercer Street, except the first two in Cuba Street. Frame one shows a young woman lowering her baby into a pram in Cuba Street (scene following two others in section AW-1341 frames 11 and 12, which showed her starting to lower the child.) Frame two shows an older woman wearing a hat, sunglasses and strongly patterned jacket standing outside the Wellington Regional Planning Authority. Frames 3 to 5 show two men lying asleep on the grass beside a row of roses, a lavendar hedge along a white wall behind them. A group of young children are under a tree near the two men, R. Powley firm's building in the background. Another man is slumped on a bench seat in frame 9. A group of young children, mostly Māori, are seen on the Library Lawn watching Vargo's Circus summer show performed by theatrical group Red Mole. (See AW-1344 identifying the event they are watching.) Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1976

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1343

Description: All frames were taken on the lawn outside the Wellington Public library in Mercer Street showing the audience watching a perfomance of Vargo's Circus by alternative theatrical group Red Mole. Frames 2 to 6 show a large group of young children, many of them Māori, on the lawn. In frames 7-9 & 11 a young man, John Dickson, wearing longish hair, a beard, and a long fur coat is outside the Library building, laughing at the action on the Library Lawn. An acrobatic act by the performers is seen in frame 10 with buildings on the corner of Victoria Street seen in the background. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1977

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1609

Description: Frames 1 to 5 taken outside the State Milk Bar, probably outside the old State Theatre in Courtenay Place, Wellington. Groups of children, including a young Māori boy near a window advertising the Social Credit Party (frame 1); young Pākeha boys, including one with his arm in a sling (frames 3 & 5). Frames 6 to 12 show one-year old Adrian van Hulst playing on a lawn. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1978

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1642

Description: Frames 1 to 3 show a group of children at the north end of Waikanae Beach. They are playing ball on a flat grassy area, with sand dunes in the background (frame 1), and with a road, houses and cars in the background (frames 2 to 4). An unidentified man is carrying his toddler on his shoulders (frames 5 to 11). He is also seen with a group of four young Māori children with the Waimeha Stream and bridge across it visible in the background (frame 11), near the beginning of Field Way. Close-up view of two of the young Māori children (frame 12). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1976

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1494

Description: All frames taken at a summer fair in Martinborough Square. People are relaxing on the grass, a tent is visible in the background of some views, children are playing, and a group of women are seen by a station wagon in frames 11 and 12. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1979

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1910

Description: All scenes probably taken at Waiwhetū Marae. They show Māori men and women, many of them seated around the outside of the marae buildings. There are kuia and kaumatua, and younger people including a young woman with two small children (frames 5 to 7). A man, wearing a sweatshirt with the logo "Dad's Army Social Club", is holding the small child in his arms in frames 11 & 12. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1976

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1495

Description: All frames taken at a summer fair in Martinborough Square. Three young women are sitting behind a stall in front of a grocer's shop. Shop window filled with posters for cheap deals (frame 1). Two women, possibly selling raffle tickets, are sitting at a table (frames 2 & 3). Two men and a woman are chatting (frames 4 to 6), standing beside a truck which is partially visible in frames 4 & 5, and the sign "Hautotara" printed on the door. A woman is sitting beside a sideboard laden with china, glass, etc, with paintings leaning against it (frame 8); and an older woman is sitting by a small round table with items for sale, and an oriental rug laid on the ground beneath it. Frames 10 to 12 show a young Māori woman holding a kitten, small boy with her, and a large covered stall visible in the background. A young man with long fair hair is behind her in frame 10, carrying a motorcycle helmet. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1976

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1458

Description: Frames 1 to 5 show a group of four small Māori and pākehā children on the lawn outside a house, possibly the Delaney Drive area in Stokes Valley. A row of state houses are in the background. A different group is seen in frames 6 to 12. A group of young women and children are seen in frames 6 to 12, including two young women throwing a basketball up near a house. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1979

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1903

Description: All images were taken at The Dell at Wellington Botanic Gardens. Chairs are laid out on the lawn in front of the stage, and Ans Westra has focussed on a few of the spectators. A Māori woman and a young girl are sitting together, with the young girl relaxing against the woman in frames 7 to 12; and an older pakeha man is sitting, possibly with his grand-daughter, watching the stage (frame 5). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1976

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1456

Description: All frames show members of a young Māori family outside their home in an unidentified location, probably in the Wellington Region. Two young boys are holding ping pong (table tennis) bats. Frames 4 to 12 focus on one house where a young woman is watching from a window on the right of a porch. Other views show a group sitting on the front steps of the porch, alongside a refrigerator; another young woman, also holding a ping pong bat, is standing with two young children, a girl and a boy on the front lawn. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1975

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1422

Description: All frames are close-up views of people, mostly Māori, at a bar inside a building, probably at an A&P fair at Upper Hutt. Frame 1 shows a young boy wearing a large Mexican-style hat. A woman is holding a baby in frames 4 and 12; and one man (wearing an Afro hairstyle, an embroidered top, a neck scarf, and a necklace (possibly pounamu)) is seen in frames 2 & 3 and 6 to 10. A roller-door is seen in the background in frame 11. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1975

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1421

Description: Frames 1 to 6 show crowds outside at a fair, probably an A&P show in Upper Hutt. A child is sitting in a pushchair, holding a drink and a toy windmill (frames 1 and 2). Men, women and children, many of them Māori, are seen in the park (frames 3 to 6.) Frames 7 to 12 were taken inside a building, with most focussing on a small Māori boy wearing a large Mexican-style hat. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1979

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1805

Description: All images taken in the grounds of St John's Anglican Church, Trentham, during a fair. Several women are chatting and looking at items on a white elephant stall (frames 1 to 6); a small Māori girl is wearing a bonnet and carrying a Fanta bottle (frames 7 & 9); then she is seen holding a toy by a stall with a sign reading "Children's novelties" (frames 11 & 12); a large sign set up on a ladder reads "Direct Donations much appreciated" (frame 8); Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1980

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1950

Description: All images taken in Thorndon near the Pipitea Marae and the Government Printing Office in Mulgrave Street, Wellington. Frame one shows two Māori men sitting on the tray of a van parked across the road from the Government Printing Office in Mulgrave Street. Frames 3 to 12 show groups of Māori outside a building (possibly a prefabricated building) in the same vicinity. The top of the Beehive (Parliament Building) is visible in the background in frames 3 & 6. Michael Fowler (Mayor of Wellington) is standing beside a man wearing a religious dog collar who is speaking to the crowd. In frame 11 he appears to be "dubbing" a man, tapping his walking stick on the shoulder of a young Māori man. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1976

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1459

Description: Two young Māori girls are playing on the footpath outside a house (possibly playing hopscotch), possibly in the Delaney Drive area in Stokes Valley. An older Māori woman is sitting on the top step of the porch at her home, the two children joining her in frames 2 to 4. There are two corgi dogs by the steps. Ans Westra focusses on two young women in frames 5 to 7, and 8 & 9, with a two others in frames 10 to 12. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film