Thatched roofs - New Zealand

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: ca 1850s

Reference: PAColl-0881

Description: Two photographs of thatched cob farm buildings, probably related to hop farming. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-002766 and 002767 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1880 and 1889]

From: Burton Brothers :New Zealand Through the Camera

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA4-0050

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Lake Wanaka, taken in the 1880s by The Burton Brothers, Dunedin. Shows a thatched roofed house with a woman standing outside. Inscriptions: mat verso - bottom left - New Zealand through the camera. Burton Brothers, Photos., Dunedin, N.Z. Lake Wanaka. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1891

By: Haxton, Betty, active 2004

Reference: PAColl-8067

Description: A portrait of the Moriori chief Tapu Hirawana Maitarawai and his wife Rohana, taken in 1891 by an unknown photographer. They are standing at the door of a wooden house with a thatched roof. Dated from negative 1/2-020706-F, another example of the same image. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned gelatin silver print 10.3 x 7.4 cm Provenance: Photograph previously in the possession of the Jaques family of Te Ore Ore, Masterton. It is thought to have been sent to them by a friend who was a teacher on the Chatham Islands, ca World War 1.

Date: [Circa 1875 to 1880]

By: Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911

Reference: PA1-f-035

Description: Scenic photographs of New Zealand taken by R.H. Bartlett, photographer who was working in Auckland circa 1875 to 1880. At the beginning of the album there is a fold-out page, opening into four full-sized photographs. Most of the images are of North Island scenes, including some of Maori groups outside whare, meeting houses, and a school with thatched walls and roof, and a view of the Maori pa at Ohinemutu. Most of the other views are landscapes, including the Pink and White Terraces, the Whangarei and Waitakere waterfalls; and hot springs at Lake Rotomahana, the Champagne Fountain at Wairakei, and the Crows Nest geyser at Taupo. The South Island scenes are all around Milford Sound, with views of Mount Pembroke, Harrison Cove, and Mitre Peak. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, gold decoration and lettering, entitled `New Zealand scenery, published by R.H. Bartlett Photo. Auckland'; 32 x 40 cm

Date: [Bween 1870 and 1885]

Reference: PA1-o-091

Description: Album of early New Zealand scenes, mainly taken by the Burton Brothers. Images include gold digging, gold dredging (image of Sew Hoy's dredge), and gold sluicing, one showing the flume on a Scandinavian race at St Bathans. There are a number of views of the Pink and White Terraces, scenes of Maori life in the King Country, and scenic views of Dunedin and the Queenstown-Lakes District. The album consists of about 71 pages, of which 25 are empty. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon covered album, 23 x 31 cm Provenance: Donated by Kings Cottage Museum, Australia, 1987

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-083-1

Description: A bush scene showing three small thatched buildings on the Tauranga-Ohinemutu Road Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Mangorewa Gorge - Tauranga-Ohinemutu Road Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 140 x 205 mm

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: [Between 1885 and 1919]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0959-15

Description: Views of the Southern Lakes District, interspersed with a few scenes in the North Island taken by the Burton Brothers and Muir & Moodie between about 1885 and 1919. Most of the places mentioned are listed above. Image no. 63 shows a party of men and women at Sandfly Point (Milford Sound) showing some of the women wearing veils over their hats for protection from sandflies; image no. 79 "Phantom canoe as seen on Lake Tarawera" is an artist's impression of the phantom canoe which appeared to a group of tourists on Lake Tarawera on May 31st prior to the eruption of Mount Tarawera on June 10th 1886 and which was considered to be a bad omen; image no. 82 shows a collage "No. 1. Maori Land. The portraits are originals - taken from life"; image no. 094 shows a close-up view of the "wire tram" over the Taramakau River; no. 095 shows a logging tramway in the Taupaki Kauri Bush belonging to Matthew Henry Roe, while no. 120 shows his Kauri Point Sawmill, with the paddle steamer "Oregon" in the background; no. 096 shows a self-acting tramway incline at Wairongomai used for gold extraction; nos 104 and 105 show gold dredges, "the Dunedin Gold Dredge" and "Sew Hoy's Dredge". Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Some items retouched with white, showing snow-covered peaks. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: [Circa 1909-1930s]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: C B and Company Ltd; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918; Sun (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0959-21

Description: Photographs of areas in the South Island taken by various identified and unidentified photographers, with several taken by "Guy" (i.e. Guy Clayton Morris). Photographs include a very clear image of the interior of a mountain hut (no. 04) showing two unidentified men, one lying on an upper bunk and the other seated on a box under the window, cooking and kitchen equipment and a metal-bound soda siphon. There are two interior photographs of the Hermitage, one showing the closed-in verandah, and the other showing the dining room. Others of interest are an early view of the first Lower Greenstone Huts, and one which is possibly of the early days of William Batson's accomodation house. Many of the places shown are listed above, though many have no identification. Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: [1870's]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PA5-0406

Description: A scene at Browns Bay, taken by Wellington Evening Post as part of their `Old Wellington' series Recto has extended title: `Okiwi' Brown, a well known character of olden days, is seated at the door of his hut. His Maori wife is to be seen at the other side of the door. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 90 x 138 mm

Date: [191-?]

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-006352-G

Description: View of a man and two children in the summer house, a wooden gazebo with a thatched roof, at the `No. 15' mineral spring in the Government Tourist Domain at Te Aroha. A hand pump for providing drinking water is in the centre, with a sign above it that reads: `The public are warned against removing mineral water in bulk or using it at the spring for other than drinking purposes / by order'. Photograph taken circa 1910s, by Frederick George Radcliffe. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Spring No. 15. Te Aroha. F. G. R. 5427 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) Glass negative. Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1921

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1837-1/2-G

Description: Two women seated in front of a thatched roof summer house which contains a drinking fountain. There is a pond filled with water lilies in the foreground, and flax bushes around the edge of the pond. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1921. Identified from Godber's own index filed in Photographic Archives at TL 6/1/15, in the 1/2 plate sequence, under Te Aroha Domain. Te Aroha. 1921. Shews fountain for drinking. Box 64. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1918

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1654-1/2-G

Description: View of a young Maori woman carrying a child on her back, standing outside a whare thatched with palm fronds. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, in 1918. For another image of this woman with a larger group of family members see APG-1653-1/2. Identified and dated from Godber File in Photographic Archives (Under Box 59. Kui & pikau. Rangiahua. 1918) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1900

By: Hollobon, Jesse, 1860-1945?

Reference: G-450

Description: Shows a thatched cottage at the left, with a large smoking slab chimney beside it, on a sloping lawn beside the sea. There is a rain barrel beside the cottage, and a red flowering plant (possibly a rose) is enclosed in a small picket enclosure at the right. In the background are two small peaked promontories on the Kaikoura Peninsula. It is possible that the enclosed flowering plant may be growing on the grave of Sarah Ann Riley who died in 1865, and was buried close to her home (See J M Sherrard's "Kaikoura; a history of the district" (Kaikoura, 1966). Notes on back Inscriptions: bottom right - Signed: J Hollobon Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil, 315 x 467 mm

Date: 1843 - 1850

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-024-019

Description: The Ruamahanga River to the left, and Clifford and Weld's sheep station homestead in front of bush in the centre and right. The roof appears to be made of battened-down thatch, and the plants in front may be rows of vegetables. A slab chimney is on the left end of the single-storey house. Prior to January 2000, catalogued as Cottage by William Swainson; however comparison with an almost identical signed and titled pencil drawing at A-035-001 shows it to be of Wharekaka and by William Mein Smith. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on brown paper, 106 x 151 mm (sight) Provenance: Collection of William Swainson, possibly given to him by the artist.

Date: [ca 1860s]

Reference: 1/2-077955-F

Description: (Rhodes?) family, alongside a house made of ponga logs and thatch, Heathfield settlement, circa 1860s. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of file print reads "Heathfield sttlement. Rhodes (family?)" "Known as a "bungi house". Fern tree trunks were cut to length, split down the middle and the rounded 'hairy' edge was put on the weather side. The cracks on the smooth side were later caulked with pugged clay and moss. The walls were firmly laced together and window and door frames neatly fixed in position. Long straight saplings served for rafters, lighter saplings, spaced six to eight inches apart served for purloins and formed a secure base for the red tussock thatch roof. The floor was levelled and the earth became quite hard so that it could be swept with a manuka broom. A hole was dug for the chimney foundations and this also was built of any stones that they could find locally. The Rhodes family arrived in the district in the early to mid 1890s." (Information taken from caption used in "Darling, I'm home!" display). Exhibited in 'Darling, I'm Home!' exhibition at the National Library of New Zealand, 1 June - 5 July 1999. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 1] 1851-1852

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-332-072

Description: Shows a view looking down from slightly above, on four farm buildings with thatched roofs and sod chimneys. There is flax in the foreground, and the gorge of the river can be seen in the left middle distance. The tail of a dog called Harry is visible in the right foreground (his body being out of frame). Other Titles - Kakaho Gorge Other Titles - Waiaukarua Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 182 x 229 mm.

Date: 1891

Reference: 1/2-020706-F

Description: A portrait of the chief Tapu Hirawana Maitarawai and his wife Rohana, 1891. They are standing at the door of a wooden house with a thatched roof. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Chatham Islands; Recto - beneath image - The Moriori chief Tapu Hirawana Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1841 - 1850

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s; Swainson, Edwin Newcombe, 1833-1913

Reference: A-190-013

Description: Shows three huts with steep-pitched thatched roofs, rush walls and small windows. The central hut is enclosed by a small wooden fence. The one at right foreground has a high stone chimney. A man is applying flax or rushes to the walls. In extreme right foreground grows a flax bush. There are hills in the background. The furthest cottage may be the building used as the first courthouse; see note for work at A-190-014. Other Titles - Huts, Petone Inscriptions: Verso - top right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on paper.. Physical Description: Pencil, 113 x 211 mm. Provenance: Previously collection of Edwin Swainson