Fishers - New Zealand - Otago Region

Date: 1885

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1879-1888]

Reference: E-035-q-1-052

Description: Studies of men in small boats, and of men hauling on purse seine fishing nets probably in or near Otago Harbour Drawn on inside back cover of album Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream paper in sketchbook, page size 151 x 240 mm

Date: 1890 - 1895

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook of loose drawings, ca 1890?]

Reference: E-036-q-2-022

Description: An unfinished sketch showing a pair of rowboats setting out to sea, possibly with fishing nets attached. The man in the more distant boat is seated; the man in the closer boat is standing. A headland is in the background to the right. The drawing is on a torn piece of a printed mortgage document for the Standard Property Investment Company, probably associated with Howorth and Hodgkins, Solicitors Another drawing in this sequence (A-440-041) was drawn on another section of a mortgage document, with 'Howarth and Hodgkins Solicitors' printed on it. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Crayon on paper, 136 x 191 mm (irregular)

Date: Apr 1897

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-140254-G

Description: George the fisherman, Moka Moka, Catlins, April 1897. Shows him by a hut made with canvas, ponga logs and timber. He holds a fishing net. Photograph taken by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches