A kōhatu mauri (mauri stone) depicting Horoirangi, a female Te Arawa ancestor. Horoirangi was carved in to a cliff face near a former pa, Te Whetengū, now a site in the Rotorua suburb of Tihiotonga. The carving was removed in the 1920s and is now located at the Rotorua musem.
Horoirangi (Kōhatu mauri)
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Rangiriri
Date: ca 1900
From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 :Collection of photographs
Reference: PAColl-3033-1-20
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Rangiriri wearing a kakahu over a jacket. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
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Manuscript
Diary
Date: Jan-Oct 1920
From: Keys, Ben, 1878-1951 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0407-32
Description: Contains diary entries by Keys re his travels through the Bay of Plenty and Horowhenua districts on business as a Native Land Agent; there are detailed descriptions of the countryside and towns which Keys travelled through, and discussions about the people he met; there are also discussions about Maori practices and customs that he encountered and his impressions of them. There are also notes about native flora and fauna and the liquor trade, and a number of photographs of people (mainly from Te Arawa and Ngati Raukawa), scenery and marae, taken by Keys according to the text (each is dated). Also contains copies of various manuscripts (in Maori) submitted to Keys by Maori informants, and information about the history of Rangiatea at Otaki Also includes stories, written in Maori, from the Ngati Raukawa tribe; "The story of Uenuku-kopako and Kapu- Manawawhiti"; "The death of Tukemata"; and a copy of a letter from Riapo Puhipi (Leopold Busby) about an exchange of gifts between Te Rauparaha and Poroa, a chief of Ahipara. Includes photographs of the old Otaki school house; Kahurangi Taipua; Raukawa meeting house (all on p.73), and Tungia Te Ao (pp.74 & 100). Contains description of the Whakatane river in 1907 (p33 & 34) and the names of the rocks in the river. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.