Matenga

Date: 14 August 1989

From: Te Reo Irirangi o Te Upoko o Te Ika: Recordings

By: Temara, Pou (Sir), 1948-; Hemmingsen, Te Hepara Brian, active 1980-2000

Reference: OHInt-0937-0257

Description: Talkback programme hosted by Pou Temara (Ngāi Tuhoe) on tikanga Māori in health practices, in particular attitudes and customs around autopsy and organ transplants. Studio guest is Nanny Frances Williams. Telephone interviews held with Brian Hemmingsen (Ngāi Tuhoe) and Hohepa Te Teko (Ngāti Awa). Also includes a telephone discussion with Ross White on bringing back the remains of Hohepa Te Umuroa from Tasmania in 1988 (in te reo Māori). Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT7-2264 Quantity: 1 7" reel(s). 30 Minutes duration. Search dates: 1989 Processing information: Record enhanced in 2016 with information from Piripi Walker, Secretary and Trustee of Te Upoko o Te Ika Trust Board.

Date: 1980s

From: Cairns, Keith Raymond 1925-1987 : Research papers relating to the Wairarapa, particularly archaeology and Maori history

Reference: 88-070-04/04

Description: Contains correspondence, sketches, photos and notes about art work of Maori burials and other artefacts sent to John Archibald, Chief Government Artist, as part of the Wairarapa Maori history project co-ordinated by Cairns; there is also a flyer that introduces the project Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1870]

From: Mundy album 3

Reference: PA1-f-041-46

Description: Maori gathering to scrape and paint the bones of chiefs, Waiomio, Northland, New Zealand. Photographed by Daniel Mundy in about 1870. This process was the last rite in a Maori funeral. It took place a year or more after the first burial of a body. Inscriptions: Album page - on back of album page - Native feast or bone scraping at the burial of the remains of several chiefs at Waiomio, Bay of Islands. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 23.7 x 19 cm

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0726-F

Description: Scenes from a tangihanga at a Te Kaha marae, taken in December 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show scenes of mourners paying their respects to the deceased, whose adorned coffin lays on the floor of the mahau (the porch area of the whare nui, or meeting house). Also show scenes of a priest conducting the funeral service. Also includes two frames of children sitting on a memorial. 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

Date: [1845]

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph (Rev), 1824-1886: [Three sketchbooks of New Zealand scenes and people. 1844-1847]

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-111-1-105

Description: A Maori man with full facial moko sits wrapped in a cloak on the ground in fornt of a whare. A young boy kneels in front of him, feeding him food. A gourd and a kete are seen placed next to a taiaha. Hutton explains: 'On some occasions a Maori is made tapu or holy. When amongst other [?] they are not allowed to touch food with their hands, so others feed them or they pick it up with the mouth.' Other title: A holy man [translation] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper adhered to page of sketchbook, 160 x 200 mm