Ni-Vanuatu

Date: [ca 1880s-1970s]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

By: Pulman (Firm)

Reference: Series-7053

Description: Photographs fall into three general groups: those relating to Jock McEwen's professional career with Island and Maori affairs; those that relate to his interest in Māori art and culture; those that probably relate in some way to his own family and background. The first group includes recordes of the diplomatic and ceremonial side of events in Samoa, The Cook Islands, and Tokelau, in the 1970s. There are groups of photographs of Wellington Māori clubs rehearsing for Waitangi Day celebrations, and of events at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference Wellington, 1965. The second group consists of photographs of mahi toi (Māori art), taonga (artifacts), and whare (buildings). Many of these date from the 1880s and 90s and some have belonged to S Percy Smith, one of the albums having his name on the end paper. In this group there are also photographs of Māori, and groups of Māori, many in traditional dress photographed in association with wharenui (meeting houses). Some of the people have been identified. There are also what may be personal and family photographs. The largest collection of these have been made by a missionary family working in the Melanesian Mission in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (New Hebrides) between 1918 and 1928. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-087032 to 087122; 1/2-181288 to 181293 Quantity: 370 b&w original photographic print(s). 14 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 13 colour original photographic print(s). 6 folder(s). 2 album(s). 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Transfers: Bewick engravings transferred to Drawings & Prints 16.11.1999. At Library reference E-586.. Processing information: Arranged by format in 1999 into Photographic archive, combined with ATL-Group-00693 and title edited in August 2023.

Date: 1875

By: Messer, Adam Brunton (General), 1837?-1919; Potter, R B Lee (Group Captain), active 1950

Reference: A-093-032

Description: An unfinished sketch of thatched huts amongst palm trees Attributed to Messer on the basis of initialled work in the same style, compare A-093-029, -030, -031 Other Titles - Malekula Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 253 x 347 mm Provenance: Donation: Group Captain R. B. Lee Potter, Wellington, 1950

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: 1875

By: Messer, Adam Brunton (General), 1837?-1919

Reference: A-093-015

Description: Four head and shoulders portraits of two women and and two men in a line, each divided by a pencil line. From left, two three-quarters frontal portraits of women, a left-facing profile of a man from Mota, and a left-facing profile view of a man from 'Mauku', possibly Malekula. The two central figures have bleached hair Possibly the work of Adam Brunton Messer, who was in Vanuatu in 1875. Both the style of drawing and the handwriting resemble Messer's. See also portraits by the same hand at A-093-014, -016 and -017, the last being dated 1875 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - titles in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolours 115 x 330 mm

Date: [1982] 1986

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-f-306

Description: Visit to Vanuatu and Noumea includes - Views of the hotel grounds and the sea, Port-Vila, Vanuatu. Taking tea outside with other tourists or friends. A Cruize liner, Port-Vila. Gardens, houses and social occasions. Traveling in Vanuatu. This includes countryside, forest, villages, coastal views, churches, a metal bridge-like structure, and people, especially children. Events surrounding the opening ceremonies of the first Vanuatu Games (called First Interdistrict Games Vanuatu), Port-Vila, 1982. Two storied colonial house. Old church and religious figures in a Roman Catholic church. Volcano erupting. Noumea, New Caledonia, its surroundings, and in particular church buildings. Loose pages in the front of the album record a holiday in New Zealand, 1986. This includes Hawke's Bay. Picnics by the way. White baiting at the Rangitaiki River mouth. The Coromandel Peninsula. Oil rig at Moturoa. Friends. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1875

By: Messer, Adam Brunton (General), 1837?-1919

Reference: A-093-016

Description: A line of three half-length frontal portraits of Vanuatuan men. From left, they are identified as coming from Erromanga (holding a bow), Nguna (holding a barbed spear), and Ambrym. Possibly the work of Adam Brunton Messer, who was in Vanuatu in 1875. Both the style of drawing and the handwriting resemble his. See also the portraits at A-093-014, -015 and -017 by the same hand, the last dated 1875 Other Titles - Erromanga, Vanuatu Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - titles in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 115 x 330 mm

Date: 1851

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889; McCleverty, William Anson, 1806-1897

Reference: B-089-002

Description: A copy by W A McCleverty of R A Oliver's view of Dillon's Bay. Shows H. M. S. Fly or H M S Havannah in the foreground of a bay with a Vanuatuan canoe approaching with two men on board. A smaller European ship, Bishop Selwyn's yacht Undine is in the background. Palm trees fringe the shore at the base of cliffs and hills Signed: W.A. McC. A copy by W. A. McCleverty of R. A. Oliver's watercolour 'H. M. S. Fly at Erromango'. The watercolour is in a private collection, and there is another watercolour copy at the Mitchell Library, Sydney, with title The Undine yacht and H M S Havannah H M S Fly and H M S Havannah were at Erromanga together in 1851, along with Selwyn and his yacht Undine. At least one version of this watercolour identifies the larger vessel as H M S Havannah, not as H M S Fly Other Titles - McCleverty, William Anson, 1806-1897. Dillon's Bay. H. M. S. Fly at Erromango. Erromanga Vanuatu New Hebrides Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W A M C New Zealand. Bottom right, with sheet trimmed and words missing: Dillons Bay, Erromang ... was killed & eaten by n ... H M S Fly & ... Copy of Capt Oliver's ...; Verso - in ink on backing linen: H M S Fly and schooner Undine. Dillons Bay, Island of Erromango, latitute 18 [degrees] 15 [minutes] S, Longitute 169 [degrees] 17 [minutes] E. Beach on which the Missionary Williams was killed and eaten by the natives. Capt Oliver. [signed] W A McCleverty Copy of picture by Capt. R.A. Oliver. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 308 x 435 mm Provenance: Presented anonymously after an exhibition at New Zealand House, 1956.

Date: 1777

From: Hodges, William, 1728-1779 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's second voyage. W Hodges delt; sculp. by various hands] - London, 1776-1777

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Basire, James, 1730-1802; Blake, William, 1757-1827

Reference: C-051-006

Description: Head and shoulders view of a Vanuatuan woman, with a child looking over her right shoulder. She has her hair enclosed in a fabric turban, and a shell is suspended with links as a form of necklace, but attached to both ears From a drawing by William Hodges, made from life on Cook's 2nd voyage, now in National Library of Australia Poet and artist William Blake was an apprentice of 5 years' standing at the time this work was engraved in the workshop of James Basire in London. He may well have had a hand in the engraving. See Rudiger Joppien and Bernard Smith, The art of Captain Cook's voyages, Vol 2, p. 110 for futher details. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage towards the South Pole. (London, 1777) Pl. 45 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 314 x 247 mm on sheet 560 x 480 mm

Date: 1782 - 1786

By: Hogg and Company; Hodges, William, 1744-1797

Reference: A-111-035

Description: A man and woman of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) Published in: Anderson, G W. A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages. Pl. 36 Derived from engravings after Hodges on Cook's 2nd voyage in: Cook, J. A voyage towards the South Pole. London, 1777. Vol. 47 On sheet 259 x 370 mm Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) (2 ill). Physical Description: Engraving b&w ; 240 x 353 mm

Date: 1875

By: Messer, Adam Brunton (General), 1837?-1919

Reference: A-093-017

Description: Three separate portraits of Vanuatuan men, from left a profile portrait titled Mulligamaili; centre a seated boy from Nguna; right a profile of a man from Vate (Efate), dated April 1875 The work of Adam Brunton Messer, who was in Vanuatu in 1875. Both the style of drawing and the handwriting resemble his and the portrait titled Vate has his monogram, lower left. See also portraits at A-093-014, -015 and -016 for portraits by the same artist. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - titles in pencil or brushpoint. Also part of the artist's monogram ABM, beneath the portrait titled Vate Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 200 x 385 mm

Date: 1890s

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Kitch, George B D, active 1880s-1915

Reference: PA1-q-263

Description: Photographs of the ship HMS Ringdove, her crew, and various ports of call in New Zealand, Australia, Chatham Islands, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), and Cook Islands. Some of the people are identified, and include men and women at the ports of call. Views in the Chatham Islands include Mrs Chudleigh and Emma Hodgson at the Chudleigh home, and a house built of ponga logs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album lacking cover; 30.0 x 24.5 cm

Date: 1841

By: Baxter, George, 1804-1867

Reference: C-046-011

Description: Rev. Williams in the water, with other missionaries, including Mr Harris, in a boat in the background, being attacked by the local people of Erromanga, Vanuatu. The incident took place in 1839. See Courtney Lewis, C T George Baxter the picture printer. London 1924. Item 83b. Compare with B088/002 (col. print) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Colour Baxter print (Sepia) 510 x 633 mm

By: Messer, Adam Brunton (General), 1837?-1919; Potter, R B Lee (Group Captain), active 1950

Reference: A-093-027

Description: A clearing in forest with a Vanuatuan man standing to the left, a spear in his hand. In the centre of the clearing is a group of slit-gongs Other Titles - Vanuatuan Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [at base of tree trunk] A. B. M. 75. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash 190 x 290 mm Provenance: Donation; Group Captain R. B. Lee Potter, Wellington, May 1950

Date: l961-1962

From: Horsman, John Irvin, 1925-1993: Photograph albums, chiefly relating to his world travels as a radio officer for the merchant navy

Reference: PA1-o-1903

Description: A travel album compiled by John Horsman, chiefly relating to his work as a radio operator on the vessel 'Crusader' GXGN between January 1961 and March 1962. The album of postcards, photographs, notes, and hand drawn maps records voyages 21 to 26 around New Zealand, across the Pacific Ocean visiting the west coast of North America and Canada, New Guinea territories and Rabaul, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), Singapore, Hong Kong, and to Japan. - Photographs of the 'Crusader' show the ship in Wellington wharf, and passing under Sydney Harbour Bridge on the Sydney Yacht Club anniversary regatta day 1961. - Snapshots of people show: Horsman and other crew members onboard playing deck quoits, sunbathing, drinking beer, socialising below, and posing with Papuan New Guinean young man on deck at Port Moresby. Snapshots taken on land show: Horsman in his room at the New Ritz hotel, Hong Kong, crew sightseeing at various ports, and crew drinking at local bars including the Papua Hotel, Port Moresby. Crew members include Captain Falkiner, Paddy Kayes, John Yarwood, Jim Bailey, Stuart Lye, Jimmy de Vries, Malcolm Mckenzie, John Oliver, and Jim Hopper. - Snapshots of locations taken from the deck of 'Crusader' show: Seattle; Vancouver mountains; volcanoes of Rabaul; Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco. - Snapshots taken of locations visited show: Mount Taranaki and New Plymouth, Wellington wharves, New Zealand; locals loading fish at Palikulo Bay, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu; street scenes, bars, shrines, Takarazuka Theatre, Merikan Pier, harbours and shipping in Yokohama and Kobe, Japan; Taiko dockyard, Tiger Balm Gardens, Causeway Bay, Kowloon, Aberdeen, street scenes, Chinese men wearing coolie hats carrying loads, junks, the Star Ferry and other harbour scenes in Hong Kong. - Postcards shows various locations visited on the voyages, including: San Francisco, Brisbane, Melbourne, Vancouver, Rarotonga, Rabaul, Port Moresby, Nara, Japan, Honolulu, Rarotonga, and Hong Kong. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: An unbound Warwick students sketch book with a cover illustration depicting a stone building, 27.5 x 37.5cm

Date: 1875

By: Messer, Adam Brunton (General), 1837?-1919; Potter, R B Lee (Group Captain), active 1950

Reference: A-093-024

Description: A centrally placed bamboo shelter with a tall right-hand wall, two split-gong drums under its roof and a Vanuatuan man standing in front of and to the right of the shelter. A futher much smaller totem under a small shelter formed by a thatched roof strung between 2 small shrubs on the left. Other Titles - Vanuatuans Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - ABM [monogram] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 225 x 142 mm Provenance: Donation: Group Captain R. B. Lee Potter, Wellington, May 1950

Date: 1875

By: Messer, Adam Brunton (General), 1837?-1919

Reference: A-093-014

Description: A line of four head and shoulder portraits of Vanuatuans, each one identified as to island. From left, a left-facing profile of a man from Erromanga, a frontal view of a woman from Ambryn, a right-facing profile of a man from Erromanga and a left-facing profile of a man of Tanna. Both the first and the last man have bleached hair. Possibly the work of Adam Brunton Messer, who was in Vanuatu in 1875. Both the style of drawing and the handwriting appear similar to his. See also portraits by the same hand at A-093-015, -016 and -017, the last dated 1875 and signed with Messer's monogram Other Titles - Erromanga, Ambrim, Vanuatu, New Hebrides Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - titles in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolours 115 x 330 mm

Date: 1838 - 1835 - 1774 - 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; Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Lejeune, active 1835

Reference: A-318-062-a

Description: Shows a view based roughly on Wollett's engraving after a lost original by Hodges. Shows a group of men and women under the shelter of a large tree on the right. A dwelling is in the right middle distance, with its roof and walls a continuing thatched curve. At the left is a large-leaved plant. Plate 252 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist, and E Lejeune as the engraver. Wollett's engraving from a lost picture by Hodges, is given the title "View in the island of Tanna" by Joppien and Smith in "The art of Captain Cook's voyages", volume 2, page 232. ATL has another copy based on Woollett's engraving, at B-054-007. Other Titles - Nouvelles Hebrides - Vue de l'ile Tannah Other Titles - New Hebrides - View in the island of Tanna Other Titles - Gezicht van het eiland Tanna 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 - 252 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: 1838 - 1835 - 1774 - 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; Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Lejeune, active 1835

Reference: A-318-062

Description: Shows a view based roughly on Wollett's engraving after a lost original by Hodges. Shows a group of men and women under the shelter of a large tree on the right. A dwelling is in the right middle distance, with its roof and walls a continuing thatched curve. At the left is a large-leaved plant. Plate 252 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist, and E Lejeune as the engraver. Wollett's engraving from a lost picture by Hodges, is given the title "View in the island of Tanna" by Joppien and Smith in "The art of Captain Cook's voyages", volume 2, page 232. ATL has another copy based on Woollett's engraving, at B-054-007. Other Titles - Nouvelles Hebrides - Vue de l'ile Tannah Other Titles - New Hebrides - View in the island of Tanna Other Titles - Gezicht van het eiland Tanna 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 - 252 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: 1875

By: Messer, Adam Brunton (General), 1837?-1919; Potter, R B Lee (Group Captain), active 1950

Reference: A-093-028

Description: Three quarters portrait of a Vanuatuan man. His name may be Vate (inscribed on the work); or, more probably, "Vate" may be a version of Efate, the major island in Vanuatu. Other portraits in this sequence are inscribed with the name of the area in which the subject was painted The artist, who has signed with monogram ABM is likely, but not proven, to be Adam Brunton Messer, surgeon aboard H.M.S.Pearl, stationed in Australia, in 1875. Other Titles - Efate, New Hebrides Vanuatu Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - monogram ABM; Recto - bottom right - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, pasted to card 207 x 146 mm

Date: 1848

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: Micro-Art-002

Description: Drawings of new Hebrides and New Caledonia, also of New Zealand, including Maori portraits. One view of 'Chief's wife, Auckland Isles' Physical Description: Negative microfilm (ca. 50 frames) Finding Aids: Inventory with microfilm..