Whakamate tuna

Date: [1930-1940]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-13

Description: Contents comprise sketch plan of Waipatu Island pa, Lake Horowhenua; ponds (?) and umu sites near State Farm Road, sth of Lake Horowhenua; eel storage tank at Matukutuku Lagoon, Horowhenua; Otaki area, corrections and additional data, rafter patterns, Raukawa whare-runanga; Tikorangi Stream-Waikawa area, Horowhenua'; canoe baler from Pipinui, Western Wellington, south-western Wellington area; patu washed ashore at Waitarere Beach, Horowhenua; patuki from shore of L Horowhenua; Kuku-Poroporo headwaters, Horowhenua; part Horowhenua county; Waikanae-Akatarawa area with place-names etc; middens on northern shore of Lake Horowhenua; Waikawa River mouth, Horowhenua (May 1944); marine mollusca and pumice implements from Waikawa middens Contents also include the identification of Maori archaealogical finds in the Kapiti-Horowhenua districts, including a greenstone hei matau from Waikawa Arrangement: Notebook no 12 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1960

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-47

Description: Comprises map of Fitzroy Bay, Baring Head, showing topographic features and former native sites; sketch plan, Parangarehu kainga site, Fitzroy Bay; visit to Glendower Station, Ponatahi Rd, Carterton, to inspect J M Jury's ethnological collection, especially his Palliser Bay artefacts; map, excursion to Flat Point, eastern Wairarapa; map, Flat Point-Glenburn Coast and hinterland, east Wairarapa showing archaeological sites and other data, including profile of coastal plain; sketch plan of sites on the Arawhata Stream; sketch profiles of Pukehuiake pa, Whatipu Stream and debouchure of Huatokitoki Stream; sketch profile of Pawharetotara pa site, Waikekeno Stream; osteological features characteristic of and distinguishing between Polynesia and European peoples; Maori lore of the Otaki-Paraparaumu sector of the coastal area of western Wellington (a) Maori place-names, sites and geomorphic background of the Otaki Te Horo portion of the coastal lowland; sections of same; map, Rangiuru Creek to Paraparaumu Beach; Arrangement: Notebook no 46 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1930-1945]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-14

Description: Contents comprise distribution of certain archaeological objects of NZ, `reel' pendant, harpoon point, `side hafted' adze, `whale-tooth' pendant; `Mangaroa' pa-site (Lake Horowhenua), showing results of excavation by R T Rolston (1943); roads to Horowhenua, official names with memoranda; part of old course of Otaki River, above railway bridge (1888); the Tokomaru River at entry to Makurerua Swamp; blackstone core, Horowhenua dune belt, antique finger-ring, west of Lake Horowhenua; small nephrite chisel, nephrite gouge; diagrams of skull from Waitohi, Otaki; a taumata-atua stone from Lindsay Road area, Levin; diagrams of skull from native burial no 1, Horowhenua dune belt; Horowhenua dune belt adjacent to Waiwiri Stream, sites of old kumara pits; plan of largest group of old kumara pits near Waiwiri Stream; Horowhenua dune belt adjacent to Oturoa settlement, plan of Mangawhati Lagoon; mouth and lower course of Hokio Stream showing past and present topography, culture, Maori place-names etc Arrangement: Notebook no 13 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1962]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-59

Description: Comprises reports on the disinterment of native human skeletons at Paraparaumu Beach township from excavation of sand-dune formation near the post office (diagrams of skulls) (with map, profile and photographs); Te Ika-a-maru and Ohau bays area of western Wellington - further ethnological features and note on drift objects of this coast; groups of unusually- placed storage pits and a large type whakamate on the Kenakena coastal salient...Paraparaumu Beach (with map); memo of human skull, probably late tribal Maori age, from old fixed dunes immediately west of Te Horo; remarkable Waitaha-Ngatimamoe hybrid adze in blackstone from Tiakitahuna, Palmerston North Arrangement: Notebook no 58 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: Early 1900s to 1931

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

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. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s).