Pokeka

Date: 1954-1955

From: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5220-014

Description: Correspondence between Pei and Eric Ramsden much of which details the `Consecrated pathway of the Queen' (Elizabeth II), describing the waiata which were used during her visit, the people and groups which participated and a description of the venue, Turangawaewae Marae Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: [19-?]-1940

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-43

Description: Includes a land deed with signatures and a description of the land block; a 15th century Maori karakia with translation; a manuscript on Maori mortality; an undecipherable manuscript with annotations; a piece of the finer points of Maori grammar; a study of the Maori concept of Tangi; historiography on Turi, Aotea and Kupe; a Maori proverb or whakatauaki; the whakapapa of Ngati Paoa'; the history of Takitimu waka including its iwi and the lands of all those tribes affiliated with Takitimu waka; also includes a 'Ture kamupene' document from 1908; includes an essay regarding 'Te Huia'; and also an essay on 'Tuwhare and Ngapuhi'; also contains a Christmas poem in Maori and an English translation Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, mss (some with holograph annotations) and typescripts (some with ms annotations)

Date: 1927-1942

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-06

Description: Includes letters on Maori language: grammar, tuition and translations of many Maori terms; includes the definition of some Maori terms and names like Kohimarama; includes poems on `Tobacco' and 'The Northlander'; essays on place names like Wairoa, Waikato and Taranaki; has waiata and haka and also discusses traditional Maori whare wananga and art Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts (some with ms annotations) Processing information: Not all names have been indexed.

Date: 1920

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-45

Description: Waiata from Ngapuhi eg waiata aroha and waiata putorino or flute song; also several waiata tangi describing the loss of a daughter from the Rangitikei / Manawatu area and waiata tangi from Maru iwi; waiata poroporoaki or farewell songs from people such as Tawhiao and several hymns covering a wide range of topics from Christianity to the `Mt Egmont Hotel' in Hawera; several war songs about the Orakau battle, Maori soldiers overseas during World War One, a waiata hari or `Triumph Song' and many other war songs from iwi on the East Coast; also songs about birds and Maori welcomes. Essays and articles on Maori food preparation and preservation about birds, body embalming and preserving heads, Maori lunar calendar, Ohaewai land claim, pataka, archaeology, Taranaki Maori history, Maori creation and Maori evolution, stories with an essentially New Zealand theme, the meeting proceedings between the Premier and Maori at Patea, on William Cowper, Maori taonga and artifacts found in a Ohaewai Cave in the Bay of Islands, a swimming pool with the skeletal remains of Frenchmen in a settlement in England, an account of the `Death of Hauraki, a Hokianga Chief' during the New Zealand Wars in 1845-1846, on Maori and Polynesian origins, protest to the Treaty of Waitangi in 1913. Photographs of landscape such as the Whangarei Heads and Mt Manaia, photograph of a Chief, Pokai Tete, letter to Sir James Carroll and another to Sir Maui Pomare, includes card play tactics in cribbage and also whakapapa of Hongi Hika of Ngapuhi and Kapewhiti of Taranaki also includes 92 whakatauaki and material on Ngapuhi grammar or Maori phrases. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts (some with ms annotations) and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1940-1960

From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Maori Manuscripts Librarian working notes

Reference: MS-Papers-6373-54

Description: Contains a wide range of literature relating to whakapapa, waiata, poetry, chants, and also some minutes relating to family hui Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photocopies with ms annotations

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Further papers

Reference: MSX-6322

Description: Contains research notes relating to whakatauki in Maori poetry Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1950-1952

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-121

Description: Text of radio programme dedicated to Te Puea Herangi, a commentary on Sir Apirana Ngata by McEwen and Mr Laughton and two obituary articles on Ngata Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript Typescript with holograph annotations Printed matter

Date: [1980-1984]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-076

Description: Duplicated draft of Shennan's `He Haka hou, a new dance; the development of Maori action song', published in 1984. Chapters on Maori dance, early European evaluations; the development of the action song in the 20th century; waiata-a-ringa, Maori action-song as a dance form; choreography of movement analysis of action-song; images of dance amongst stylized figures of Maori wood-carving; depiction of dance in legend and mythology and Pacific dance studies in the classroom. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript Typescript with ms annotations