Beach on the southern shoreline of the Tamaki Strait, Manukau. Main kainga of the Ngati Tai (Ngai Tai). Te Tara was chief in the 1840s when visited by John Logan Campbell, who also called the site 'Omapuhia'.
Umupuia Beach
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Duder's Beach or Umupuia, Manukau, Auckland
Date: 25 Aug 1972
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-70442-F
Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate
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Letter from Hone Tana Irirangi to McLean
Date: 15 May 1854
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0678B-05
Description: Written from Umupuia regarding an introductory letter Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).
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Duder's Beach or Umupuia, Manukau, Auckland
Date: 25 Aug 1972
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-70443-F
Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate
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[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :Ngeungeu and her son James Maxwell. Plate 3 / George ...
Date: 1844 - 1847
From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.
By: Hawkins, Benjamin Waterhouse, 1807-1894
Reference: PUBL-0014-03
Description: Standing double portrait of a young woman wrapped in a pom-pom cloak, with kaka-beak flowers in her hair, her son in a kiwi feather cloak standing behind her. According to the associated text, Ngeugneu (spelled thus) was the daughter of Tara (see plate 34) and wife of Thomas Maxwell. They lived on Waiheke Island with several children, until after the death by drowning of her husband, when she returned to her village Omupuia (near Auckland). She was of the Ngati Tai iwi Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) in publication.. Physical Description: Hand-coloured lithograph, 245 x 326 mm.
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Angas, George French, 1822-1886 :Tara or Irirangi ... principal chief of the Nga ti Tai...
Date: 1844 - 1847
From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.
Reference: PUBL-0014-34
Description: Shows Tara, chief of the Ngati Tai, near Auckland. He wears a long flax cloak with fringing of soft feathers or fur around the neck and hem. He holds a long-handled tewhatewha (sharpened club), and wears moko. Tara was the father of Ngeungeu Maxwell - see plate 3. (Publ-0014-03) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured 335 x 229 mm
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Duders Beach, Auckland, includes farmland, roads shoreline and house
Date: 20 Mar 1956
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-40889-F
Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate