Paryphanta busbyi
Grace, Shirley, 1949-2000 :[Pupurangi (Kauri snail shell). Mylar transparency copy].
Date: 1997
By: Grace, Shirley, 1949-2000
Reference: B-160-017
Description: Shows a spiral shell; a copy of one of Shirley Grace's screen prints of a kauri snail shell. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on mylar. Physical Description: Photocopy on mylar, 485 x 380 mm.
Grace, Shirley, 1949-2000 :'Kauri snail' / S Grace [1997].
Date: 1997
By: Grace, Shirley, 1949-2000
Reference: C-071-016/020
Description: Five versions of a screenprint showing a spiral shell. Dated from another version of the same image, which is dated. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 5 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprints, sizes varying around 690 x 510 mm. Transfers: See also a separate accession record for purchased material from the same source..
Grace, Shirley, 1949-2000 :[Pupurangi (Kauri snail shell). Photographic negative]
Date: 1997
By: Grace, Shirley, 1949-2000
Reference: B-160-018
Description: Shows a spiral shell; a copy of one of Shirley Grace's screen prints of a kauri snail shell. Quantity: 1 photograph(s) (negative). Physical Description: Photographic negative on film, 260 x 270 mm.
Grace, Shirley, 1949-2000 :Pupurangi (Kauri snail shell). No. 9 copy. Print of 'Kauri s...
Date: 1997
By: Grace, Shirley, 1949-2000
Reference: C-071-023
Description: Shows a spiral shell and a handwritten poem entitled Pupurangi. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print and ink, on sheet 765 x 560 mm.
Grace, Shirley, 1949-2000 :Pupurangi (Kauri snail shell). Work print only; for you to p...
Date: 1997
By: Grace, Shirley, 1949-2000
Reference: C-071-021
Description: Shows a spiral shell. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print 760 x 560 mm.
Grace, Shirley, 1949-2000 :Pupu-rangi Kauri snail shell. No. 1 copy. Print of 'Kauri sn...
Date: 1997
By: Grace, Shirley, 1949-2000
Reference: C-071-022
Description: Shows a spiral shell and a handwritten poem entitled Pupu-Rangi. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print and ink, on sheet 765 x 560 mm.
Maori and other musical instruments, performers and events
Date: [ca1975-ca2004]
From: Nunns, Richard, 1945-2021: Collection
By: Alford, Rachel, active 2005; James, Brian, active 1983
Reference: PAColl-9112-5
Description: Photographs - mostly from the mid 1980s - of a range of instruments (old and new, Maori, Japanese, Chinese, from Pacific Islands and Celtic) being played at events in different parts of New Zealand, by New Zealand and visiting performers. Includes shakuhachi, guqin, a Rarotongan nose flute, a Celtic horn, taonga puoro including a koauau made from koiwi tangata (human bone) and a kete woven by Geneva Gray. Also includes images of performances curated by Allan Thomas in the auditorium of the National Library; copy of the cover for an album `Traditional music of the Maori' with Mrs Wineera of Porirua; the opening of visitor facilities in the Ruakuri Cave at Waitomo; an event in the crater of Mount Tarawera; a workshop at an Auckland teachers training college; expeditions in search of pounamu in the Arahura River valley; a tour by Urban Taniwha. Quantity: 100 colour original photographic print(s). 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 papers (letters and envelopes).
Transparencies of taonga puoro
Date: [ca 2000-2007]
From: Nunns, Richard, 1945-2021: Collection
Reference: PA12-6126
Description: Transparencies of taonga puoro including a hue puruhau (large gourd); pūpū kauri made from a giant kauri snail (Paryphanta busbyi) shell; and an ornately carved kōauau. In all photographs, not the entire instrument is visible - detail only. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies 120 size.