Cemeteries - New Zealand - Chatham Islands

Date: Dec 1984

From: Watt, James Norwood, 1928-2018: Collection

Reference: PA12-11173

Description: Colour transparencies of birdlife and scenery taken by James (Jim) Watt during World Wildlife Fund expedition to the Chatham Islands, Dec 1984. Contains multiple images of weka (including interactions with humans, Safe Air plane on tarmac, fishing boats in a bay [off Waitangi?], coastal scenes, and a gravestone. Inscriptions: Note from depositor reads: "Expedition World Wildlife Fund Expedition Dec 1984 - looking for taiko specifically. Uncle Jim asked to join - had a German ornithologist with him - 16 people or so - tagged birds." In Dec 1984, James (Jim) Watt joined a World Wildlife Fund New Zealand (WWFNZ) expedition to the Chatham Islands. Specific focus of the expedition was to search for taiko. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: Dec 1984

From: Watt, James Norwood, 1928-2018: Collection

Reference: PA12-11174

Description: Colour transparencies of scenery and flora taken by James (Jim) Watt during World Wildlife Fund expedition to the Chatham Islands, Dec 1984. Images include tombstones in a cemetery, farmland (with flocks of birds and livestock), coastal scenes, a waterfall, a derelict house, a sunset and various flora (mainly flowers but also some ferns and shrubs). Also contains an image of the Waitangi General Store and fishing boats off Waitangi with the wharf in the background. In Dec 1984, James (Jim) Watt joined a World Wildlife Fund New Zealand (WWFNZ) expedition to the Chatham Islands. Specific focus of the expedition was to search for taiko. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 1890-1998

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004 : Photographs relating to Maori

By: Mattner, Joachim, active 1985-2001

Reference: PA1-o-1829

Description: Album compiled by Joe Mattner in 2001 for Michael King. The photographs relate to the German missionary on Chatham Island, Johannes Gottfried Engst (1819-1910), the restoration of his grave in Te One cemetery in 1985 by Joe Mattner, and the cleaning up of the cemetery in 1998. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1995

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-f-309

Description: Views of Chatham Island include - Pastoral landscapes. Coastal views. Fishing boats. St Barnabas Anglican church, Te One. Whakamaharatanga Marae Hall of Memories, Te One. Trees with Moriori dendroglyphs. Houses. Dead forest. Unidentified church and cemetery. Statue of Tommy Solomon. Moriori petroglyphs. Basalt columns. Mission house at the foot of Maunganui Knoll. Maunganui Beach. Native forest with emergent nikau palms. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-13

Description: View of Waitangi, Chatham Island, looking across the Nairn River. In the foreground is the Ngati Mutunga urupa (cemetery) enclosed by wakawaka fence. Behind this is the pa wool shed, and at left, the long sleeping houses. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). The urupa was destroyed by a tidal wave, and the reamins of the interred were moved to the urupa on the hill above Waitangi Hospital. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: 1886

By: Stoddart, Margaret Olrog, 1865-1934

Reference: A-234-016

Description: Shows a beach or the banks of a stream, looking inland to windswept scrub and a small stream. In the right foreground is a skull and other bones. The scene is almost identical to a work in the Nelson Provincial Museum, entitled" "A Moriori burial place, Wharekauri, Chatham Islands, 25-1-1889". It is likely that the artist stayed at the Wharekauri homestead at the north of the island. She visited several times, including both 1886 and 1889 (See Julie King's "Flowers into landscape", (Christchurch, 1997), pages 55-58). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated]; Verso - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 355 mm.

Date: 1950s- 1980s

From: Wills Johnson, Kate Miria, 1929-1995: Papers and photographs relating to the Chatham Islands

Reference: PAColl-6262-2

Description: Most of the photographs date from the 1980s. The group that don't are loose prints from Album PA1-o-962. These are photographs of a young boy, school photographs from the late 1950s and early 1960s, and photographs of an event during the Royal Visit of 1963. Those of the the 1980s include views of the landscape of the Chatham Islands which include quite a detailed record of Waitangi including the town tip. There are two groups of school jubilee photoraphs, the largest of which is the centennial of Te One School in 1985. The other is that of Kaingaroa school. The gun club picnic (Feb 1985), the pony club gymkhana (Feb 1985), a race meeting at Tauherenikau in the South Wairarapa (Dec 1984), and some unidentified events and groups of people make up the rest of this collection group. Includes two sheets annotated in the same hand with a list of names featured in a group portrait taken at "Joan Hough's 21st" in 1963. One sheet is annotated as being written in 1990 by "Buzz" or "Bayly?". Also includes two small sheets annotated in a different hand containing a list of names for photographs in PA1-o-963. Quantity: 190 colour original photographic print(s). 10 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera annotated photographic processing envelope related to 35mm-123263 to 35mm-123323. Transfers: An envelope of 35mm negative strips was found in the PAColl-6262-2 enclosure by a staff member in 2023 and processed separately for conservation reasons. See library references 35mm-123263 to 35mm-123323. Images appear to mostly relate to photographic prints in PAColl-6262-2.. Processing information: Previous access statement 'Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission" was removed in May 2022. Box contains two empty library housing envelopes annotated by a staff member.