Waka
Ngatokimatawhaorua
Tattooed Maori women, and images relating to King Tawhiao
Date: [ca1880-1971]
From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004 : Photographs relating to Maori
Reference: PAColl-9977-12
Description: Includes:-- The Maori Parliament House (Turangawaewae House) Ngaruawahia built 1912-1919. Portraits of tatooed Maori Women, all but one, unidentified. The ceremonial waka (ceremonial canoe) Ngatokimatawhaorua fully manned, off Paihia, Bay of Islands. Philip Munro and Toni Muru in large interior decorated with a Cliff Whiting mural. Photomechanical copy of an engraved portrait of King Tawhiao. Dame Te Atairangikaahu enthroned at her coronation, 23 May 1966. Photomechanical print of portraits of King Tawhiao's head wife and second wife. Entrance to Maori King's residence (Turongo House) Turangawaewae Marae. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Leslie Verry's trip to Europe
Date: 1939-1940
From: Koppel, Irene, 1914-2004 :Photographic prints, albums and negatives taken by Irene Koppel
By: Verry, Horace Leslie, 1916-1996
Reference: PA1-o-988
Description: The images record three separate events: 1. Leslie Verry's trip to Europe in 1939 as the world prepared for war. 2. The New Zealand Centennial celebrations at Waitangi in 1940. 3. A climbing trip to Tongariro National Park, easter, 1940. In relation to the Second World War, this album is interesting in that it has several photographs showing mobilisation in Holland, and troops on the move in Utrecht and the Hague following the Italian invasion of Albania in April 1939. It also has photographs taken in Kassa (Hungary) after the partition of Czechoslovakia. While in Britain and Europe Leslie Verry also practiced as a freelance journalist Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Meeting Houses, pa sites, and museum exhibits
Date: 1972-1980
From: Keyes, Ian Warwick, 1938-2004 :Sites of Maori settlement, Maori artifacts, and marae
Reference: PA12-6852
Description: Painting, Te Ika a Maui, by Mark Burgess. Exhibits in the Maori Hall, Canterbury Museum. Ceremonial canoe, Ngatokimatawhaorua, Waitangi. Terracing on the Tongaporutu River. View of marae and meeting house on the Waitomo Caves Road. Meeting house, Bushy Park Road, Kaiiwi. Pa site, north Whangarei Heads. Excavations of pa, Kauri Point, Bay of Islands. Quantity: 15 colour original transparency/ies.
The waka Ngatokimatawhaorua at sea off Waitangi - Photograph taken by Ian Mackley
Date: 22 January 1974
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016
Reference: EP/1974/0309-F
Description: The waka Ngatokimatawhaorua at sea off Waitangi. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley on the 22nd of January 1974. This 100ft Maori waka was built in Kerikeri during the 1930s, under the direction of Pita Heperi and Piri Poutapu. After the 1940 Waitangi Day events it was gifted to the nation and is housed in the canoe house at Waitangi. This large waka was being trialled in preparation for New Zealand Day celebrations on the 6th of February 1974. It weighs 20 tons, and is made from a giant kauri trunk. It was constructed especially for the Centenary celebrations in 1940. It is capable of carrying 100 people, 80 of whom are rowers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Photographs of tattooed Maori Women, and others relating to Te Puea Herangi
Date: [ca 1900]-1966
From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004 : Photographs relating to Maori
Reference: PAColl-9977-8
Description: Portraits of elderly Maori women with facial tattos (moko kauwae) most taken by Marti Friedlander for Michael King's book `Moko,' first published in 1972. All of the subjects lived in the North Island of New Zealand. Most of them are identified. Photographs relating to Te Puea Herangi. These include - Portraits of Te Puea at different times during her life. Photographs relating to her work, such as the group of orphaned children she fostered after the flu epidemic of 1918. The construction of the ceremonial waka (canoe) Ngatokimatawhaorua. Building works at Turangawaiwai Marae, in particular the meeting house Mahinarangi (1929), and the Maori monarch's official residence, Turongo House including the opening of this in 1938. Te Puea's tangi, and her coffin being carried up Taupiri Mountain. Maori monarch's include - King Mahuta Tawhiao (1855?-1912). King Koroki (1909-1966). Queen Te Arikinui Te Atairangikaahu (1931-2006). Maori soldiers from the period of the First World War. The Parliament House (Turangawaiwai House) at Ngaruawahia (built 1912-1919). The photographs relating to Te Puea were gathered at the time that Michael King was writing her biography. Quantity: 62 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints
John Fijn transparencies of the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Waitangi
Date: 6 Feb 1963
From: Fijn, Jan (John) Reinder, 1910-2003 :Transparencies, particularly relating to the royal visit to Waitangi in 1963, and to Maori
Reference: PA12-10668
Description: Colour slide photographs taken by John Reinder Fijn of the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Waitangi, 6 Feb 1963. Contains images of the Queen Elizabeth greeting Maori dignitaries in the marae atea of Te Whare Runanga with Prince Philip at her side. Includes a series of the Queen meeting Maori Queen Te Arikinui Te Atairangikaahu. Sir Eruera and Lady Ruti Tirikatene are also seen in kiwi feather kakahu. Ralph Hanan, James Henare, and Matiu Rata are also present. Queen Elizabeth II is also seen walking through the crowd in the Treaty Grounds and visiting the waka house where Ngapuhi ceremonial war canoe Ngatokimatawhaorua is stored. Quantity: 6 colour original transparency/ies strips containing 10 images. Physical Description: Colour phototransparencies
The Maori waka Ngatokimatawhaorua
Date: 1940
By: Snowden, James Robert, 1904-1982
Reference: 1/2-C-014058-F
Description: Maori waka `Ngatokimatawhaorua' being launched prior to the Waitangi Day events in February 1940. Taken by B Snowden in 1940. This 100ft Māori waka was built in Kerikeri during the 1930s, under the direction of Pita Heperi and Piri Poutapu. After the 1940 Waitangi Day events it was gifted to the nation and is housed in the canoe house at Waitangi. This is 1 of 3 waka built at the instigation of Princess Te Puea. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).
Replica of the Ngatokimatawhaorua canoe, Treaty of Waitangi centenary celebrations, Wai...
Date: 1940
From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970
Reference: MNZ-2873-1/2-F
Description: View of the replica of the Ngatokimatawhaorua canoe, constructed in 1940 to commemorate the centenary of the Treaty of Waitangi, being paddled past a ship at Waitangi. Photograph taken in 1940 by Tudor Washington Collins. This 100ft Maori waka was built in Kerikeri during the 1930s, under the direction of Pita Heperi and Piri Poutapu. After the 1940 Waitangi Day events it was gifted to the nation and is housed in the canoe house at Waitangi. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Provenance: Photograph from T W Collins for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication `Making New Zealand' (1939-40).