Cook Islands - Social life and customs

Date: 1933-1970

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

By: Cook Islands Library & Museum Society

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1065

Description: Notes on shipping and ships; narrative of Charles James Ward; correspondence of William McBirney Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1995

Date: [196-?]

From: Broadhead, Bruce Gilchrist, 1927-2001 : Nothing much to do

Reference: MS-Papers-7553-2

Description: Contains an account of Broadhead's visits to Niue and the Cook Islands and his return voyage to New Zealand aboard the yacht `White Heart'. Also an account of his visit to Australia where he attended the Commonwealth Broadcasting Conference in Sydney, provided commentary for the New Zealand Broadcasting Service of the yacting events at the Olympic Games in Melbourne and visited Alice Springs, Mt Isa and Townsville. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: [1900s?]

By: James, Bond (Rev), active 1900s

Reference: 88-148

Description: Notebook in Rarotongan (holograph); diary of a trip to the southern islands of the Cook group transcribed by Elizabeth A Cater (typescript) Language - Notebook written in Rarotongan Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript

Date: [1969-1996]

From: Awatere, Arapeta (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1910-1976 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7341-09

Description: Inward correspondence on aspects of the Awatere case; also holograph and typescript accounts and notes by Awatere. Includes letter from Edwin Gold, Mangaia, on anthropological and sexual issues on Mangaia and the Cook Islands and the condition, club foot. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1903-1939

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1070

Description: Diaries of Charles Banks Sep-Dec 1903, and of Charles Wigmore, owner of the Papua Plantation at Titikaveka 1918, 1920, 1923, 1925 and 1926; Te Akatauira/Guiding Star 1939, a printed news-sheet in Rarotongan and English, edited by A R Henry Other Titles - Te Akatauira Other Titles - Guiding Star Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1897-1898

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1067

Description: Two diaries with daily entries describing Banks' life and work as a trader Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1994

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1960]

From: Burland, John Colles, 1926- :Colour transparencies of Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia and Palmerston Island, 1960

By: Burland, John Colles, 1926-2015

Reference: PA12-0514

Description: Views on Palmerston Atoll, Cook Islands, showing Empire Day celebrarions, feasts, the making of metal fishing spears, and members of the Marsters family. Photograph taken in 1960 by John Colles Marsters. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1908-1911, 1914-1967

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1192

Description: Comprises general correspondence to and from the Aitutaki Resident Agent. Source of title - Transcribed Resident agents, responsible to the Resident Commissioner, were appointed to each island, where they chaired Island Council meetings and used their judicial powers in hearing criminal cases, except for murder and manslaughter, and minor civil cases, except for divorce suits. Quantity: 5 microfilm reel(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2003

From: Kauraka, Kauraka, 1951-1997: Papers and recordings

By: Kauraka, Kauraka, 1951-1997

Reference: Series-6840

Description: Language - Nearly all of the interviews are carried out in Rarotongan and the abstracts that are available are also in Rarotongan Other Titles - Manihiki korero Interviewer(s) - Kauraka Kauraka Relationship complexity - Introduction to Manihiki oral history held in Manuscripts (91-117-1) Quantity: 42 C60 cassette(s). 13 printed abstract(s). 22 interview(s). 9 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other Abstracts available for some, but not all, of the interviews.

Date: 16 Oct 1998, 25 Jan 1999 - 16 Oct 1998 - 25 Jan 1999

From: First Church of Otago 150th anniversary oral history project

By: Moeroa, Keni, 1954-

Reference: OHInt-0441-12

Description: Keni Moeroa born Mangaia, Cook Islands. Outlines family background - father, Ngatae Takapi, a planter and a Deacon and elder for nearly 30 years in Cook Island Christian Church. Recalls childhood in the Cook Islands; discipline in the home; details of Mangaia; diversity of uses of coconuts; Sunday observance and Sunday School; involvement of children in Boys Brigade and Girls Brigade and Girl Guides. Mentions lack of radios on island. Describes schools with reference to principal in 1968, Mr Douglas William Kerr and his wife, Beverly. Compares the Maori and Cook Island Maori languages. Backgrounds decision to come to New Zealand February 1975 and describes homesickness and first impressions of Dunedin. Discusses involvement with First Church, being a communicant member and treasurer for Cook Island community; involvement in Cook Island Netball clubs and a Mangaia-Cook Island group and Pacific Islanders in Dunedin. Describes the Mangaian group, which is mainly social, maintaining identity and hosting visitors. Mentions, Denzil Brown and his wife Marget Brown, Ian Cairns and Ian Macintosh. Recalls being the Cook Island representative on the Planning Committee for the renovation of Burns Hall, workinng with architect, John Salmond. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Abstracted by - Joanne Aitken Interviewer(s) - Dorothy Leffly Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007739-007740 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2035. Photocopy of one b&w photograph of Poe Moeroa and Keni Moeroa ca 1985. Search dates: 1954 - 1999

Date: 1892, 1899, 1900, 1904

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1068

Description: Four diaries with entries describing Banks' life and work as a trader in the Cook Islands Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1994

Date: [1960]

From: Burland, John Colles, 1926- :Colour transparencies of Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia and Palmerston Island, 1960

By: Burland, John Colles, 1926-2015

Reference: PA12-0515

Description: Views on Palmerston Atoll, Cook Islands, showing Empire Day celebrations, the teacher and pupils at the school on Palmerston Islet, construction work on the school building (including thatching the roof), and members of the Marsters family. Photographs taken in 1960 by John Burland. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1954

By: Numa, John A, active 1954

Reference: qMS-1601

Description: Rough draft only Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (15 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1847-1977

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1066

Description: Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1955

Date: 1995-1997

By: Crocombe, Marjorie Tuainekore, active 1974-2008

Reference: MS-Group-1689

Description: Papers collected by Marjorie Crocombe relating to Kauraka Kauraka. Includes collection of poems by Kauraka, under the title Taku akatauira (My dawning star); also, obituaries, curriculum vitae, correspondence and papers relating to his teaching and research activities Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mrs Crocombe, 2008

Date: 4 Nov-31 Dec 1882 (transcribed ca 2010)

From: Hutchin family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-10083

Description: Folder comprises photocopy of a handwritten transcription of Hutchin's Rarotonga diary for 1882. The transcription was compiled in two notebooks. Diary details Hutchin's arrival in Rarotonga aboard the `Waiwera' which was captained by Bushell, relationships with local people and the activities of the Church in the region. Diary continues to document social life and customs of the Cook Islanders as well as the role of the missionary in this society. Includes names and homelands of some of the students attending the Christian school for tution. Some local stories are recounted as is Hutchin's dealing with Cook Island chiefs. Diary ends Sunday 31st December 1882. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss (colour photocopies)

Date: 29 October 1979

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1979/3832-F

Description: Mrs Mii Mata of Porirua watches as a lock of hair is cut from the head of her 7 year old son, Marama Mata, as part of his coming of age ceremony. This ceremony is a Rarotongan custom. Photographs taken by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley on the 29th of October 1979. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: Jul 1929

By: Buck, Peter Henry (Sir), 1877?-1951

Reference: MS-Papers-3408

Description: Letters discuss the social organisation of Polynesian society, particularly the Cook Islanders Relationship complexity - Also see the Ngata family papers, MS-Group-0941 and MS-Group-1140. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 1981-1982

By: Jowitt, Glenn, 1955-2014

Reference: PAColl-0198

Description: Images selected by the library from a portfolio of photographs by Glenn Jowitt, entitled Polynesia, here and there, depicting aspects of Polynesian life in the Pacific Islands and Auckland. The images portray social, economic and ceremonial activities in Auckland, Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Tokelau and Cook Islands. Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cibachrome prints