Sod houses - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: 1956

By: Packe, William, 1840?-1882; New Zealand. High Commission (Great Britain)

Reference: E-278-q-119

Description: Reproduction of a watercolour by Packe showing two thatched sod huts, washing strung on a line in the foreground and a sheep's carcass hanging on the left. Foothills and snow-clad Southern Alps beyond. Samuel Butler took up his station at Mesopotamia in 1860, leaving it in 1864, after doubling his money. William Packe, with his brother George, took up the neighbouring station Raincliff in 1868. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 128 x 178 mm on folded card

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Packe, William, 1840?-1882

Reference: A-036-010

Description: Two thatched sod huts, a man with a horse, washing strung on a line in the foreground and a sheep's carcass hanging on the left. Foothills and snow-clad mountains beyond. Photograph of the Library's watercolour of the same title Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour 126 x 173 mm

Date: [ca 1863]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: PAColl-3060-006

Description: A sod cottage at Templeton, Christchurch. Taken by an unknown photographer circa 1930s. Published in `Making New Zealand' - Note on back of file print reads: "page 31 (F2)" The cottage was built circa 1863. Note on back of print reads: "Early Colonists room, Canterbury Museum" Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Packe, William, 1840?-1882; Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: A-196-015

Description: Two thatched sod huts, a man with a horse, washing strung on a line in the foreground and a sheep's carcass hanging on the left. Foothills and snow-clad mountains beyond. Samuel Butler took up his station at Mesopotamia in 1860, leaving it in 1864, after doubling his money. William Packe, with his brother George, took up the neighbouring station Raincliff in 1868. Attribution: originally attributed by the Library to either Butler himself or to Julius von Haast. Packe's granddaughter in England lent 24 of his watercolours for an exhibition at New Zealand House in London in 1960. Not only did they include a virtually identical view to this, but they were also monogrammed in the same way as this work, resulting in a reattribution. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. P. [monogram] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 126 x 173 mm