Lake Kopuera

Date: 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-196-021

Description: A flat area alongside the river with tall trees (including cabbage trees) in the background, flax to the right. Two or three thatched houses with groups seated and standing outside and a larger group in or alongside canoes drawn up at the river's edge to the left. Another group seated around a fire. Related copies: Original for the lithograph by J W Giles in Angas, 'Savage Life and Scenes in Aust. and N.Z.' (London, 1847), Vol. II p.28. The lithograph has the title On the Waikato at Kapou. Kopou (or Kapou) are no longer names in use, but Angas is known to have been travelling along the Waikato from near modern Mercer on 28 September and to have reached the area near Lake Waikare and the small Lake Kopuera at Rangiriri by 2 October. The area shown is likely to be close to Lake Kopuera and Rangiriri. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 153 x 220 mm Provenance: Previously in the collection of Captain A W F Fuller, London.

Date: 1847

Reference: A-015-004

Description: A Maori kainga (village) with several houses, groups sitting around, a fire and cooking pot in the left foreground and canoes being launched into the Waikato River on the left. The location, not a current name, may be near Lake Kopuera Trimmed inside plate marks Based on a watercolour in the Library's collection ' On the Waikato at Kopu 1844' Reference number A-196-021 Other Titles - Kopu Kopuera Kopou Extended Title - Published in: Angas, G F Savage life and scenes. Vol. 2 pl. 3 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, b&w and sepia 114 x 162 mm

Date: 20 Nov 1946

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-04404-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 20 Nov 1946

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-04403-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 1/2 plate