Cook Islanders

Date: 1923-1933

From: Kingsbury family :Photographs of Cook Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1233

Description: A view of the Cook Islands (mostly Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mauke and Atiu) compiled by the Kingsbury family between 1923 and 1933. The main focus is on the New Zealand/European community living there, most of whom were members of the New Zealand Government's administration, or were there for business and trade (eg the staff of A B Donalds). There are images of social events such as tennis and cricket games, garden parties, the Avatiu Football Club's umukai, opening a bowling green, a race meeting on the beach at Nikao, meeting people associated with a visit of the Melanesian Mission ship "Southern Cross," and entertaining tourists off visiting ships. Also photographs of events around official visits such as those of Gordon Coates, and Sir Maui Pomare. Many other images are of groups and individuals. Cook Islanders also feature. There are those working for the New Zealand administration, members of rugby clubs, participants in official visits, in ceremonial events such as the Coronation of Vaikai Kainuku, Ariki of Takitumu, Rarotonga in March 1931, in communal fish drives, a sunday school demonstration at Ngatangiia, Rarotonga, as family groups and individuals. Of the islands there are many scenic views - the landscape, the vegetation, the coast, towns, villages, principle buildings such as churches, the administration buildings in Avarua, Cook Island houses, European houses, commercial buildings, wharves, and ships. Three pages of images record hurrianes or storms. All were taken at the waterfront at Avarua, one group on the 1st of April 1926, and the other group on the 15th of February 1931. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 16-27 October 1992

From: Brooke-White, Julia, 1942-: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7233

Description: Events associated with the arrival of canoes at the 6th Festival of Pacific Arts, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Photographed by Julia Brooke-White. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1923-1933

From: Kingsbury family :Photographs of Cook Islands

Reference: PAColl-8046-1

Description: A view of the Cook Islands (mostly Rarotonga, Aitutaki, and Mauke) compiled by the Kingsbury family between 1923 and 1933. The main focus is on the New Zealand/European community living there, most of whom were members of the New Zealand Government's administration, or were there for business and trade. There are images of social events such as tennis and cricket games, garden parties, and weddings. Many other images are of groups and individuals. Cook Islanders also feature. There are those working for the New Zealand administration, members of rugby clubs, those participating in ceremonial events, and family groups and individuals. Of the islands there are many scenic views - the landscape, the vegetation, the coast, towns, villages, principle buildings such as churches, the administration buildings in Avarua, Cook Island houses, European houses, commercial buildings, wharves, and ships. One group of images record hurrianes and the damage caused by them, in particular one that hit the islands on the 1st of April 1926. Quantity: 178 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1860-1929

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8066-03

Description: Photographs of the Cook Islands ca 1900-1914; two caricatures of Duncan McNeill Lord Colonsay; unidentified rural landscapes; Tuke family photographs; a group of photographs mostly showing people at leasure, but including images of tobacco crops on a farm near Motueka; a Maori group which includes Tutakangahau, the Urewera chief who was one of Elsdon Best's main informers in his research; 7 photographs relating to the Gudgeon and Northcroft families; one group photograph of guards on Somes Island in 1916; one photograph of the Waikato leader Wiremu Tamihana and his children. Quantity: 81 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: November 1992

From: Brooke-White, Julia, 1942-: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7251

Description: A trip to Mangaia Island in November 1992 photographed by Julia Brooke-White. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: October-November 1992

From: Brooke-White, Julia, 1942-: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7250

Description: People in Avarua. A trip to Mangaia Island in November 1992. Photographed by Julia Brooke-White. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 2004

From: Ephemera of quarto size relating to the Cook Islands

By: Losacker, Wolfgang, active 1990s

Reference: Eph-B-COOK-ISLANDS-2004-01

Description: Calendar with each month showing a photograph: Aitutaki beach, Tapuaetai Island in Aitutaki Lagoon, lagoon of Palmerston Island, Castaway Beach Villas (guitar players), Wedding ceremony on "Motu Koromiro" Muri Lagoon, Muri Lagoon, Flower girl, Aitutaki Pearl Beach Resort, Manihiki lagoon, Island dancing in Rarotonga, Krystina (Miss Tiare 2002), Fish of the south seas. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograhs on pages of calendar, 235 x 335 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Island Craft Ltd, Avarua, Rarotonga, in 2004.

Date: 16-27 October 1992

From: Brooke-White, Julia, 1942-: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7246

Description: Cook Islands performances, craft, food, and food crops photographed by Julia Brooke-White. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1890s

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Kitch, George B D, active 1880s-1915

Reference: PA1-q-263

Description: Photographs of the ship HMS Ringdove, her crew, and various ports of call in New Zealand, Australia, Chatham Islands, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), and Cook Islands. Some of the people are identified, and include men and women at the ports of call. Views in the Chatham Islands include Mrs Chudleigh and Emma Hodgson at the Chudleigh home, and a house built of ponga logs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album lacking cover; 30.0 x 24.5 cm

Date: 1923-1933

From: Kingsbury family :Photographs of Cook Islands

Reference: PAColl-8046-3

Description: The main focus is on the New Zealand/European community living in the Cook Islands, most of whom were members of the New Zealand Government's administration, or were there for business and trade. There are images of social events such as tennis and bowls games. Many other images are of groups and individuals some of which include W G Kingsbury, his wife, his daughter Dorothy, Leicester Cook, and Laurie Emens. Cook Islanders also feature. There are those working for the New Zealand administration, members of rugby clubs, participating in ceremonial dances, and family groups and individuals. Of the islands there are many scenic views - the landscape, the vegetation, the coast, principle buildings such as churches, the administration buildings in Avarua, Cook Island houses, European houses, commercial buildings, wharves, and ships. Two set of prints relate to the radio station. Quantity: 16 album leaves with 125 b&w original photographic prints.

Date: 2014

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs

Reference: Eph-D-COOK-ISLANDS-2014-01

Description: Poster shows and arrangement of text at the left, with four photographs at the right arranged in the shape of a hibiscus flower. The photographs are of food, craft work, and young Cook Islands children. The background is green. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 420 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated in 2014.

Date: 2014

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs

Reference: Eph-D-COOK-ISLANDS-2014-02

Description: Poster shows and arrangement of text at the left, with four photographs at the right arranged in the shape of a hibiscus flower. The photographs are of food, craft work, and young Cook Islands children. The background is pink. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 420 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated in 2014.

Date: [1900s?]

From: Turnbull Library Pictures: Original photographic prints and postcards from the File Prints Collection

Reference: PAColl-10563-258-03

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer circa 1900s. Shows three adults identified and one child, palm trees and fale can be seen in the background. Inscriptions read: "[No neg]; To Loa, Fitihega & wife. Cook Islands, Rarotonga". Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1914]

From: Turner, Shirley Margaret, 1945-: Photographs of Rarotonga, Fiji, and probably Tahiti

Reference: PA1-o-1814

Description: Album containing 9 photographs taken on Aitutaki, Cook Islands, circa 1914, by an unidentified photographer, possibly the Turner family. Includes photographs of Government School, memorial to native missionaries killed in New Guinea 1881, husking and grating coconuts, Rima Dadaraka who held a silver medal for bravery, damaged building from hurricane in 1914, Mummy(?) apple tree, burial ground, and a 12 year old Aitutaki girl. Inscriptions: On album cover: embossed: 'Photographs'; On album cover: hand written in ink: Aitutaki, Cook Islands Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album, 11 x 15 cm, with grey pages staapled together, and soft grey cover.

Date: 2018

Reference: Eph-D-COOK-ISLANDS-2018-01

Description: Poster shows and arrangement of text above and below a group photograph of a line of eight men, dressed casually but all in white shirts or t-shirts. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 420 x 595 mm.

Date: 2019

Reference: Eph-D-COOK-ISLANDS-2019-01

Description: Poster shows and arrangement of text above and below a group photograph of four women and a man wearing leis and wreath headdresses. The are looking up at a Cook Islands flag. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 420 x 595 mm.

Date: 8-23 September 1996

From: Brooke-White, Julia, 1942-: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7256

Description: Particpants from the Cook Islands at the 7th Festival of Pacific Arts, Apia, Samoa. They have brought with them a large sea going canoe. Photographed by Julia Brook-White from 8-23 September 1996. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: November 1992

From: Brooke-White, Julia, 1942-: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7253

Description: A trip to Mangaia Island in November 1992 photographed by Julia Brooke-White. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 11 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 16-27 October 1992

From: Brooke-White, Julia, 1942-: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7248

Description: People, street scenes, frangipani flowers, the Sheraton Hotel in the last stages of construction, Trader Jack's Restaurant, and the Banana Court pub, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Photographed by Julia Brooke-White. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1923-1933

From: Kingsbury family :Photographs of Cook Islands

By: Hopkins, Sydney, 1881-1948

Reference: PAColl-8046-2

Description: Photographs of the interior of a radio station, Cook Islands women, European and Cook Islands men, the visits of Governors General Sir Charles Fergusson and Lord Bledisloe, and New Zealand politicians Sir William Massey and Sir Apirana Ngata. There is a group photograph taken during the farewell to John Everson who was Superintendent of Cook Island schools and deputy Resident Commissioner. Another shows the crowd at a fancy dress ball held in the Royal Hall Avarua in about 1928. There are two panoramas, one of a general view of Avarua in the landscape and the other of the Administrative Buildings in the Avarua town centre. Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Janice McAdam, Sydney, Australia, in January 2002.