Ethnographic illustrations

Date: 2010

From: [Posters and other ephemera of A3 size relating to Maori issues. 2010-2014]

By: Canterbury Museum (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-MAORI-2010-01

Description: Exhibition booklet with photographs of taonga on display. Contains essays by Mark Solomon, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Moana Tipa. The final pages contain a full catalogue of the exhibition. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 28 pages, 275 x 272 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 2010.

Date: 1838 - 1835 - 1843 - 1836

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Pellion, Alphonse, 1796-1868

Reference: A-318-022

Description: Shows three huts, grouped around a courtyard, wherein, at right, two women are engaged in rolling out fabric lengths or mats on the ground. They are in the process of making the fabric as explained in the text Domeny de Rienzi's book (volume 2, page 43 in French edition). Plate 115 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. French edition (1835-36), has same plate and has the additional information that Danvin was the copyist. Chavannes engraved the French version, but the engraver for the Italian version is not given (it may also have been Chavannes). Plate 86 in Freycinet's "Voyage autour du monde", Atlas historique (1825), where it is attributed to Pellion. Other Titles - Dwellings on the Hawaiian Islands Other Titles - Iles Hawai - Habitations Other Titles - Iles Sandwich. Maisons de Kraimokou, premier ministre du roi; Fabrication des etoffes Other Titles - Sandwich Islands - Fabric making - House of Kalanimoku Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 115 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: 1905 - 1950 - 1963

By: Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947

Reference: E-278-q-096

Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of an elderly Maori man, with full moko. He is wearing a bowler hat, greenstone earrings, a brown jacket and grey waistcoat with a piece of coral in gold attached to a chain across his waistcoat. Portrait of Te Aho te Rangi Wharepu From an original oil painting in Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 120 x 90 mm, on card 140 x 90 mm

Date: 1905 - 1950 - 1963

By: Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947

Reference: E-278-q-096-A

Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of an elderly Maori man, with full moko. He is wearing a bowler hat, greenstone earrings, a brown jacket and grey waistcoat with a piece of coral in gold attached to a chain across his waistcoat. Portrait of Te Aho te Rangi Wharepu From an original oil painting in Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 120 x 90 mm, on card 140 x 90 mm

Date: 2006

From: [Posters and other ephemera of A3 size relating to Maori issues. 2006]

Reference: Eph-C-MAORI-2006-01

Description: Each poster shows a montage design based on photographs. The "Korero Hau Kura" set contains posters for the following Maori proverbs: Kia mau ki te aka matua; kei mau ki te aka taepa (Grasp the vine planted in the ground, not the vine from the heavens) He poporo tu ki te hamuti (A cherished one, standing undaunted in adversity) Ka tuhi Kaitangata (A mark of Kaitangata) Hauhake tu, ka to a Matariki (A time to harvest as Matariki sets) Ae ko Hotumauea te tangata nei (Yes indeed this person is Hotumauea) Ka maru koe i toku pureke, he kahu pitongatonga (The hem of my fine cloak will shelter you) Nga Reo o Aotearoa, "Voices of Aotearoa"; a collection of treasured Maori stories, contains posters about the following stories: Arai-te-uru - Canoe which brought Rongo-i-tua and his people to New Zealand. It was wrecked at Matakaea and its kumara cargo became the Moeraki boulders. Kahukura - the story of his tricking the patupaiarehe while they were fishing Kuiarau - while bathing in a small lake at Rotorua she was taken by taniwha. Her husband Tamahika asked the gods to kill the taniwha, and they did so by boiling the lake waters. Kaiwhakaruaki - a man-eating taniwha who was killed by warriors near Parapara Golden Bay, after a fight during which he killed many of the warriors. Kua mau i te ao - the story of the naming of Mauao (Mount Maunganui), Puwhenua's mountain suitor who was caught (mau) by the light of day (ao). Nukutaimemeha - Maui's canoe, whose resting place is Mount Hikurangi. Quantity: 12 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, 300 x 420 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2006.

Date: 1833 - 1840

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Laderer, active 1830s

Reference: A-327-003

Description: Shows head and shoulders portraits of two women, one man and an infant. These are selected from Plate 70 in Dumont DUrville's "Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe ... (Paris, 1833), portraits 3,5 and 6, and therefore show Ekara, young girl of the Bay of Islands, and Tawiti and his wife. Tawiti's wife holds a baby wrapped in her cloak by her shoulder. Plate 176 from an unknown publication in German or Dutch, derived at least partly from Dumont D'Urville's "Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe". Other Titles - New Zealand. Portraits of inhabitants Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 100 x 154 mm.

Date: 1876 - 1880

From: Gilmore, George Charles 1851-1935 :[Scenes in India, Ceylon, and Africa] 1876-1881

By: G, A (Artist), active 1870s

Reference: A-094-052

Description: Shows a scene on a river, probably in England. A man in a small red boat fishes with a rod. On the far bank is a weeping willow tree and there is an arched stone bridge at the far left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 99 x 109 mm.

Date: 1840

By: Baxter, George, 1804-1867

Reference: A-093-010

Description: Shows three islanders in a boat in left foreground, two with paddles. In right foreground is another rowing-boat containing eight men including Rev. Williams who is the only one standing. He holds up trinkets towards the three in the other boat. On shore in the distance are four groups of islanders, of which two groups wave spears. Groups of trees include palm trees, and there is a large hill in left backgrounnd. Plate from: Williams, John. A narrative of missionary enterprises in the South Sea islands .. (London, 1840) Other Titles - Williams, John. A narrative of missionary enterprises in the south seas...London, 1840. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - The Red. J. Williams' first interview... Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Print pasted on card ; Baxter print, coloured ; image 108 x 73 mm on sheet 190 x 120 mm

Date: 1937

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]

Reference: A-424-025

Description: Shows a head and shoulders portrait of a woman with her hair drawn back into a loose knot, and a plait over the top of her head. Photographed in E-918-q, 340/192b. Copies at 142/192 and 143/192a. Listed in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 154 x 103 mm.

Date: 1862 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-038

Description: Shows a scene at a Maori village, with a woman standing in the left foreground wearing a leafy branch on her head. She holds out small branches towards a pig standing in the front of her in the centre foreground. At the right, a group of four men in European clothing and peaked caps stand watching. In the background are two whare, lowe bush and tree trunks. A very thin dog or pig stands at the extreme left. Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], page [38 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing, 145 x 235 mm

Date: 1843 - 1820 - 1839

By: Massart, active 1840s

Reference: A-327-021

Description: Shows a tall young woman (said in the text to be about fifteen or sixteen years old), with striped loincloth, tattooed upper chest, and lower arms and legs. She is carrying a basket of flowers and is being admired by three smaller girls at the left. The location is likely to be Tonga rather than the Caroline Islands Gabriel Lafond de Lurcy travelled for many years in the 1820-1850s, but the travels illustrated here must have been undertaken in the 1820-1830s. Other Titles - Caroline Islands - Ouhila, daughter of the high priest of Tongatapu Other Titles - Tonga, Friendly Islands Extended Title - From Gabriel Lafond de Lurcy "Voyages autour du monde et naufrages celebres", volume VIII, opp page 301. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on steel engraving, 135 x 150 mm, on sheet 155 x 212 mm.

Date: 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Costume plates of Oceania] Torino [Turin] ; Fontana, 1844

Reference: A-119-021

Description: Shows a warrior, in loincloth and turban, holding a bow and several arrows. Wahlen's book is an Italian translation of his "Moeurs, usages et coutumes de tous les peuples du monde..." Bruxelles, 1843-44. Vol. 4. Other Titles - Native of the island of Vatu Lele (Fiji) Extended Title - From: Wahlen, A. Usi e costumi sociali, politici, et religiosi... Vol. 2 Oceania. Torino, 1844-1847. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, handcoloured, on sheet 270 x 178 mm.

Date: 1936 - 1937

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]

Reference: A-424-021

Description: Shows a row of the backs of figures seated on the ground in the foreground. Some sit on mats and some have woven baskets with them. Beyond are several standing figures, in groups. Photographed in E-918-q, 342/169b. Copy at E-914-q-003. Listed in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q Visit to Tahiti was in 1936 but print was made in early 1937. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 177 x 254 mm, on tissue 233 x 265 mm.

Date: 1852

By: Eckersberg, Johan Fredrik, 1822-1870; Tonsberg, Christian, 1813-1897; Winckelmann & Son (Firm)

Reference: A-267-033

Description: Shows a mountain scene with a man on horseback talking to a woman who is walking along a track. The woman's hand is on the man's. The illustration is likely to be Plate 4 from "Norske nationaldragter" (National dress of Norway), published in Christiania in 1852 by Christian Tonsberg, with illustrations mainly by Johan Fredrik Eckersberg. Other Titles - Published by Christian Tonsberg Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Colour lithograph, 233 x 188 mm, on detached page 343 x 260 mm. Transfers: From Other - From Conservation.

Date: 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Costume plates of Oceania] Torino [Turin] ; Fontana, 1844

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Mercier, active 1840s

Reference: A-119-027

Description: Shows a warrior, with parts of his face, torso and limbs darkened by paint or tattooing. He holds a broad-bladed spear in his right hand. Image similar to that at : B-052a-007. Wahlen's book is an Italian translation of his "Moeurs, usages et coutumes de tous les peuples du monde..." Bruxelles, 1843-44. Vol. 4. Other Titles - Warrior of Tongatapu Extended Title - From: Wahlen, A. Usi e costumi sociali, politici, et religiosi... Vol. 2 Oceania. Torino, 1844-1847. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, handcoloured, on sheet 270 x 177 mm.

Date: 1855 - 1870

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888; Davies, Patricia, active 1997

Reference: A-160-034

Description: Sketch shows a view of a curve in the river with two canoes, one near to the viewer with five occupants, and one further away. Behind the further canoe, reflected in the water, are four structures of vertical wooden poles (possibly a hakari / food storage tower). These are either on the far bank or standing in the water close to the bank. There are hills in the distance, and vegetation in the left foreground and right background. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - top right - Waikato River by Albin Martin Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, watercolour and Chinese white, 130 x 190 mm. Provenance: Provenance by direct descent from the artist to the vendor at this auction.

Date: 1778 - 1790 - 1798

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Wooding, J G, active 1790s?

Reference: A-111-042

Description: A view made during Cook's visit to the village of waimea shows the houses of the village around a central flat area where the men of the village are engaged in various daily activities. In the centre, two men carry an animal, possibly a pig, tied by its feet to a pole. Derived from engraving by Lerpiniere after Webber in: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784. Pl. 35 Extended Title - Published in: Anderson, G. W. A new authentic and complete collection of voyages. [Anr. ed.] Pl. 143 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, black & white 234 x 374 mm, on sheet: 239 x 382 mm; trimmed inside upper and left plate marks

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: B-112-001

Description: Circular thatched roofed open sided dwellings on a palm-finged beach with canoes and people stanind on the beach, including the natives of the area and a European man, with a European man and woman sketched in on the left. Betty McFadgen, Museum of New Zealand does not believe that this is a Pacific scene. Could be Africa, West Indies?. Subsequently (mid 1970s) attributed by Library staff to George French Angas, then reattributed as an unknown artist, not a Solomon Islands scene and possibly not the Pacific. Other Titles - Angas, George French 1822-1886. Solomon Islands scene. British School. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & pencil 251 x 361 mm

Date: 1827 - 1839 - 1836 - 1863

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Chaillot, active 1863; Biggs, John, active 1989

Reference: A-211-075

Description: Shows a missionary in a bush clearing, carrying an umbrella, standing on a path beside a robed Maori man. Behind at left is a party of seven Maori, three carrying bundles on their heads. Drawn after Sainson's Missionaire de la Nouvelle Zelande avec sa suite - lithographe in Dumont d"Urville's "Voyage pittoresque autour du monde..." Paris: Furne et Cie, 1839. Plate 2, opp. p.398. ATL has this at: qR 910.8 DUM Voya. This copy is from an edition of Domeny de Rienzi's "Oceanie" not held in ATL. This is concluded because title is given in French only, instead of two or even three languages. There were several editions of the work between 1836-72. Copy negative 1/2-C-10071-F from Domeny de Rienzi's "Oceanie" (1863). There is a file print from this negative, in Drawings and Prints artist/title file, and a colour transparency in the transparency file.. Other Titles - Anglican missionary with his followers [translation] Extended Title - From: Domeny de Rienzi, M. G. "Oceanie". Paris, 1836-63, vol. 3. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 179; Recto - top centre - NOUVELLE-ZEELAND.; Recto - bottom left - Danvin del; Recto - bottom right - Chaillot sc.; Recto - beneath image - Missionaire Anglican avec sa suite. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 89 x 141 mm.

Date: 1833

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Vanderburch, H, active 1833; Adam, Jean Victor, 1801-1867

Reference: B-052-015

Description: Shows Maori whare beside stream, group of sailors and Maori. Published in: Dumont D'Urville, J.S.C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe. Atlas [historique]. Pl. 45. Other Titles - Uawa Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-col. 208 x 356 mm, on sheet 330 x 510 mm