Antlers

Date: 1967-1971

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PA12-11563

Description: Transparencies of South Westland, including river and beach areas, and images relating to "meatshooters", 1967-1971. Taken by Les Cleveland. Photographs include the airstrip at Mussel Point, Haast Beach, musterers on horseback with dogs driving cattle on the banks of the Haast River. A number of images are taken from the air. A series of images relate to "Meat Planes" and "Meatshooters" [deer hunters?] with planes and helicopters photographed on the Waiatoto River flats. In a mountainous area a man [holds?] the bottom [skid?] of a helicopter in flight. A series of images show Mike T Bennett. He is seen smoking, carrying a pig on his back, with the severed head of a deer, with a large pile of antlers, and at a "meatshooters" camp by a fire. Lorraine Bennett is photographed cooking and Rosina [Sands?] is seen with her children at a Mussel Point location. A series of images show the Bennett family and "Haastians" having a picnic at Mussel Point. Mussel Point airstrip photographs also include other unidentified children of meat shooters. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Arrived in enclosure labelled "Haast" by Cleveland. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies mounted in card slide frames Transfers: Part one of two. See remainder of set at PA12-11564.. Processing information: Slides that were originally stored together were split into two parts to facilitate appropriate storage.

Date: [1930s]

By: MacKay, Horatio Murdoch, 1886-1968; Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966

Reference: PA1-o-305

Description: Album created with aviation pioneer Horatio Murdoch MacKay. Photographs include several in which MacKay was the first man to fly across the Tasman as a passenger, making the flight with Charles Kingsford Smith. One sequence shows Boeing biplane (purchased by New Zealand Airways Ltd in 1934), shipped from Vancouver and assembed in New Zealand, and the first landing at Green Island `Aerodrome'. A number of views of different aeroplanes, both monoplanes and biplanes follows. There are a large number of postcards of Launceston, Jenolan Caves, and Ballarat in Australia, and caves in the Waitomo area of New Zealand. Photographs of a group travelling on a South Island tour by White Star Taxis, a company which MacKay established, including views of the first hotel at Wanaka `The White Star Private Hotel'. One scene shows one of the taxis after an accident. Other scenes show a group skiing, a group at the summit of the Crown Range, and a large group on a motor launch. The last sequence is chiefly family photographs, including several houses, and two different wedding parties; several portraits, possibly of Horatio MacKay's wife Helen Emma (nee Griffiths). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue and brown patterned cover, entitled `Snapshots'; 26 x 33 cm

Date: ca 1930

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 16

Reference: PAColl-7344-08

Description: Boy kneeling over a dead stag on a bare hillside holding its antlers in one hand and a knife in the other. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1940-1955

By: Douglas, Norman, active 1941-1953

Reference: PAColl-7348

Description: Photographs taken or collected by Norman Douglas probably for a hunting magazine. They are of hunters with dead deer and deer heads and antlers or mounted deer heads and skulls. They include one of Douglas with a fallow deer shot in May 1953 with an unusual bez tine on the right antler. All the prints are annotated with where or by whom the deer was killed and often the antler points aswell. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1920s

From: Ross, Malcolm 1862-1930 :Photographs by Malcolm Ross of New Zealanders in the Great War, Maori, mountaineering, New Zealand scenery, etc

Reference: 1/2-021097-G

Description: Stereographic image of an outdoor scene at an unidentified location, showing a row of deer skulls, with antlers, alongside (a whare?, a hide?). Photograph taken by Malcolm Ross, circa 1920s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Stereographic dry plate glass negative

Date: 1938

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

By: Atkinson, George Gordon, 1905-1982

Reference: PAColl-3060-020

Description: Men holding deer antlers, Whitcombe watershed, Westland. Photograph taken by George Gordon Atkinson in 1938. Published in 'Making New Zealand' Vol 1, No 10, page 27 Making New Zealand caption reads: "A record head shot in the Whitcombe watershed, Westland, in 1938. Many good heads have come from this part of the back-country. But it is not every stalker who has the endurance to carry the head out to civilisation. Thick untracked bush and large river boulders make such a burden an awkward one." Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.5 x 21.6 cm Provenance: Item lent by George Gordon Atkinson (National Park ranger, New Plymouth) to the Department of Internal Affairs for publication in 'Making New Zealand' in 1939. Processing information: Formerly filed in Turnbull Library Pictures at: 799. Hunting. Deer. 1938

Date: [circa 1910s-1930s]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-143657-F

Description: Photograph taken by Edgar Richard Williams. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by Curatorial Services Leader John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Stereographic film negative

Date: [circa 1910s-1930s]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-143269-F

Description: Photograph taken by Edgar Richard Williams. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by Curatorial Services Leader John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Stereographic film negative