Kiekie

Freycinetia banksii

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A climbing and creeping vine forming thickets in the forest. The leaves are used in weaving, the fruits were eaten and the roots used for ropes or bindings. Freycinetia baueriana var. banksii.

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[Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :Wellington from Brooklyn - across Te Aro and Thor...

Date: 1861 - 1967

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-011

Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tall tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Colour photolithograph was reproduced from the original "[View of Wellington. 1861]" held at ATL G-670. Other Titles - View of Wellington, 1861. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861.; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board.; Recto - bottom right - Print no. 4 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.

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[Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :Wellington from Brooklyn - across Te Aro and Thor...

Date: 1861 - 1967

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-011-c

Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tall tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Other Titles - View of Wellington, 1861. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861.; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board.; Recto - bottom right - Print no. 4 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.

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Adkin album 15

Date: 1925 to 1928

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: PA1-o-011

Description: Album 1 of flora, fauna, and Maori subjects; black and white photographs taken between 1925 and 1928. Includes images of land formation and plants in the Horowhenua duneland, and the Tararua Ranges. Several images of gannets and chicks at the Cape Kidnappers gannet colony. Old war canoe Hamaria in use on Lake Horowhenua by the Taueki family in 1926 for spearing eels; Uawhaki meeting house at Waikawa, views of carved panel and tukutuku panels inside, 1926; the site of the old native flour mill on the Waitarere Stream at Poroutawhao showing remains of machinery and millstones, 1926 (mill built 1853 or 1854 under the direction of a French priest. Photograph taken in 1926 of a painting by Trevor Lloyd showing Maori life in pre-pakeha days with war canoes making a raid on the Paritutu stronghold at New Plymouth, Taranaki. Views of bird nests and eggs, of the song-thrush, blackbird, and wild duck (probably the grey duck), giving descriptions of manufacture of nests, and the colour of the eggs. Photographs of a variety of trees and plants in the Tararua Ranges.

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[Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :Wellington from Brooklyn - across Te Aro and Thor...

Date: 1861 - 1967

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-011-a

Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tall tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Colour photolithograph was reproduced from the original "[View of Wellington. 1861]" held at ATL G-670. Other Titles - View of Wellington, 1861. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861.; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board.; Recto - bottom right - Print no. 634 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.

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[Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :Wellington from Brooklyn - across Te Aro and Thor...

Date: 1861 - 1967

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-011-b

Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tall tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Colour photolithograph was reproduced from the original "[View of Wellington. 1861]" held at ATL G-670. Other Titles - View of Wellington, 1861. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861.; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board.; Recto - bottom right - Print no. 23 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.

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[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :Old woman at Te Mata making Freycinetia banksii baske...

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

Reference: A-020-007

Description: An upper view showing an elderly Maori woman squatting over a basket she is weaving from kiekie leaves. The lower view shows another woman preparing flax leaves for woven mats. The word 'porcupine' refers to the quill-like edges of the mat the woman is sitting on. The upper drawing is an original for the top left section of a lithograph in Angas' The New Zealanders illustrated, (London, 1847) Plate LIX, p.133, 'Domestic sketches'. The reference in the upper sketch to 'parasites' is to the kiekie, which grows on trees as an epiphyte, and appears to be a parasitic plant Inscriptions: Recto - Lower right, beneath both images, pencil inscriptions. The words Freycinetia banksii have been added later. The date may refer to both drawings Quantity: 2 drawing(s) (on one sheet). Physical Description: Pencil on grey paper, 228 x 127 mm

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AFCM album 4

Date: Early 1900s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

Reference: PA1-f-125

Description: Album of newspaper and magazine cuttings, black and white photographs, and prints of colour illustrations. Mostly connected with New Zealand native trees, and the timber industry. There are pages dealing with different native trees, and then with the various processes involved in felling the trees; transportation, including horse-drawn, logging railways, and water-born timber using dams; and timber mills. On page [7] of this album there are three personal photographs taken by John Logan Campbell from his home in Parnell, used as Christmas cards in 1900 and 1901; on page [27] is a print of a photograph originally taken by Albert Percy Godber, showing a poster in Maori warning against carelessness in lighting fires in the bush (see full information about the original, in the record at APG-1454-1/4-G).

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[Merrett, Joseph Jenner], 1815-1854 :Te Maioha. [Battle scene]. Kie kie ... Kaikatea. [...

Date: 1841 - 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-031

Description: Five drawings on one page. 'Te Maioha' names a seated Maori man in a draped flax cloak. [Battle scene] shows five Maori men, two in hand-to-hand combat, two others holding rifles. 'Kaikatea' shows a tall kahikatea in a forest, with kiekei growing as an epiphyte on its trunk. 'Puka Hei' names a young Maori woman draped in a cloak. She wears ear and neck adornments, and has her hair in a bun. [Two seated men] both wear cloaks. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of five drawings, various media

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Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965 :Kiekie Freycinetia [ca 1940]

Date: 1938 - 1942

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-719-033/035

Description: A designs of the epiphyte kiekie curving inside a rectangular frame. Variants repeated over three pages Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on three sketchbook pages, 182 x 257 mm.

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[Harris, Emily Cumming], 1836?-1925 :Freycenetia Banksii. Flower of the kie-kie [1900]

Date: 1900

From: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1836?-1925 :New Zealand flowers, 1900 [Album of 21 watercolours and illustrated title page in bound volume].

Reference: E-790-q-022

Description: Shows flowers and leaves of the kiekie. Other Titles - Freycinetia Other Titles - Kiekie Extended Title - No. 20 from her New Zealand flowers album, 1900. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream paper, 289 x 222 mm, stuck to page of hardbound album

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Stowe, Jane, 1838?-1931 :[Collospermum hastatum (Kahakaha). 1902-1910?]

Date: 1902 - 1910

From: Stowe, Jane, 1838?-1931 :Wild flowers of New Zealand. [ca 1902-1910]

Reference: E-635-f-004

Description: Shows a pale mauve Freycinetia? or Collospermum? flower with large stamens, set among long lanceate leaves. Other Titles - Collaspermum hastatum (Kiekie) [former title] Other Titles - Freycinetia Banksii Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - JS Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on page of album, 353 x 246 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Mary Watt, Wellington, through the family of the artist, in 2004.

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[Holdsworth, Alice Mabel], 1878-1963 :Kike kike (or `Gigi'), Astelia. Lily family. A cl...

Date: 1936 - 1937

From: [Holdsworth, Alice Mabel] 1878-1963 :[Plants and scenery from a New Zealand trip] 1936-1937

Reference: E-252-q-034

Description: The climber kiekie Artist note: Leaves used by Maori for hat plaiting Other Titles - Kiekie Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in album. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 310 x 230 mm in grey buckram album

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Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :Parasite in Kauri F[orest. 1864?].

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-021

Description: Shows parasitic plants, including kiekie, growing high in the fork of a dying tree. Page 22 on verso is blank. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 138 x 232 mm.

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Osborne, Fanny, 1852-1933 :Native berries of New Zealand / F. Osborne. Auckland; printe...

Date: 1913

By: Osborne, Fanny, 1852-1934; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd; Gorton, Millicent, 1877-1966

Reference: G-128

Description: A round tan-coloured bowl, overflowing with native New Zealand berries and drupes, including karaka, tawa, nikau, kawakawa, fuchsia, manuka, kiekie, puriri, kahititea and poroporo. Published in 1913, according to Fanny Osborne's biography, probably as a supplement to Brett's Christmas Annual Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 470 x 647 mm

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New Zealand Plants

Date: ca1970s-ca1980s

From: Peacock, Morice Gladstone, 1916-1995 : Negatives, prints, register and minute book from 20th Century Photography studio, Taumarunui

By: Peacock, Morice Gladstone, 1916-1995; Houpapa, Vonda Elsa Maureen, 1941-

Reference: PA12-0395

Description: Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

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Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :Kiekei (Frecinetia banksii). Nikau (rhopalostylis sap...

Date: 1979 - 1879 - 1980

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-112-005-a

Description: A grouping of kiekie, nikau, five-finger and karaka, showing berries and flowers "Alexander Turnbull Library prints 1979; second issue for 1979" Reproduction of an original watercolour in the Alexander Turnbull Library, reference number C-023-002 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Serial 52: print no. 107 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, image 330 x 425 mm, on sheet 415 x 520 mm.

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Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :Kiekei (Frecinetia banksii). Nikau (rhopalostylis sap...

Date: 1979 - 1879 - 1980

From: Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :Four more watercolours of New Zealand flowers and berries / by Emily Cumming Harris - Wellington; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, 1979 [i e 1980]

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-112-005

Description: A grouping of kiekie, nikau, five-finger and karaka, showing berries and flowers "Alexander Turnbull Library prints 1979; second issue for 1979" Sheet size: 430 x 610 mm Reproduction of an original watercolour in the Alexander Turnbull Library, reference number C-023-002 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Serial 52: print no. 395 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, image 330 x 425 mm, on sheet 415 x 520 mm.

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Mangere, Auckland - Preparing kiekie for tukutuku panels; Workers lunch break and marke...

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0533-F

Description: Images show scenes during construction of a new marae at Mangere, Auckland, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show kuia outside preparing kiekie (flax) for tukutuku panels. Other male workers take a lunch break. Also shows a market gardener sewing seed in freshly dug soil. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

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Construction of new marae, Mangere, Auckland

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0532-F

Description: Images show carving and tutuku weaving during construction of new marae at Mangere, Auckland, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show several wood carvers creating carvings for new marae. Also shows woman preparing kiekie (flax) ready for tukutuku panels. Also shows a kuia working on one of the new panels. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

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May (Mei) Walker and Netta Morgan of Waiwhetu preparing kiekie for tukutuku panels for ...

Date: 20 Oct 1959

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1959/3524-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm