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Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
- Date
- [1930-1963]
- By
- Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964
- Reference
- MS-Papers-6061
- Description
Comprises 63 notebooks of Adkin's ethnological notes on Maori place-names, maps, diagrams and drawings of artefacts and archaeological sites throughout New Zealand although concentrating on the Horowhenua, Wellington and Wairarapa regions. The early notebooks contain material for his book, `Horowhenua', the later for `The Great harbour of Tara' (1959). The notebooks also contain his preliminary or completed drafts which he recopied for all his various papers published in the `Journal of the Polynesian Society'. One volume is of genealogies, and there are also two index volumes to the series, `Index to recording books of Maori lore, place-names, artefacts, etc' for vols 1-50 and 51-63. Most of the volumes have inserted material and loose notes and papers.
Adkin included on his maps the viewpoints for slides taken during expeditions, tours and excavations
A great deal of the Maori content in these volumes is focused on, but not restricted to, the tribes of the greater Kapiti-Horowhenua-Rangitikei districts. This includes the Ngati Ira and Ngai Tara; Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa; Muaupoko and Rangitane; and the Waitaha peoples who Adkin believed occupied these districts prior to the tribes listed above. There is a great deal of documentation about archaeological material found within (and outside) these districts with supporting maps, sketches and notes which often disclose information about where Maori artefacts and human remains where found, their particular characteristics, who found them etc. These papers also include the use of whakapapa.
Accompanying material - Letter from donor describing background to collection; bibliography compiled by donor, and `A Bibliography of Wellington geology' by J G Begg, C Mazengarb and R G Zucchetto (1994)
Source of title - Supplied
Relationship complexity - Please check catalogue for further Adkin collections, and inventory
Relationship complexity - See also other GL Adkin collections MS-Papers-0261 (194 folders), and Micro-MS-0600 (12 microfilm reels).
Arrangement: The notebooks are numbered according to Adkin's method. All archaeological finds have precise accompanying drawings which have not been noted in scope and contents although all maps have been. Donor, Ian Keyes, has added annotations relating to publication of some reports.
Quantity: 65 folder(s) (64 vols in folders; 2 vols in case folder). 0.70 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Holographs with illustrations
Provenance: Following Adkin's death in 1964 much of his papers went to the National Museum of New Zealand and the Alexander Turnbull Library. Mrs Adkin had retained Adkin's geological and ethnological notebooks and at a later date the former went to the New Zealand Geological Survey (now IGNIS) and the ethnological notebooks to Ian Keyes. The colour slides are believed to be in the possession of Dr T Barrow, Hawaii.
The notebooks are extensively illustrated with professional and detailed maps, diagrams, drawings of Maori artefacts and related material
- Additional description
Microfilm copies available in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Format
- 65 folder(s) (64 vols in folders; 2 vols in case folder), 0.70 Linear Metres, Manuscripts, Maps, Notebooks, Personal papers, Research notes, Holographs with illustrations, Illustration: The notebooks are extensively illustrated with professional and detailed maps, diagrams, drawings of Maori artefacts and related material
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Notebook (vol 22)
Date: [1940-1950]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-23
Description: Contents comprise notes on adze types from Makorokio Stream, Ohau, and Poroporo Ridge; ancient rock paintings; map of Weka Pass; on Maerewhenua, a name with six variants; on the rediscovery of the kohakatakahea; data from P J Burstall; of a visit to Maketu; adzes from Westland, Moutapu Bay and Amuri Bluff (with maps); and other notes Arrangement: Notebook no 22 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).
Maori notebook (vol 24)
Date: [1950-1952]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-25
Description: Comprises notes on Maori place-names and sites of past and present kainga, Bay of Plenty (with map); of Tauranga Harbour, Mt Maunganui, Whakatane and Maketu and Waihi estuaries (with maps); section of whalebone object; letter, Bryce Wood to Adkin (1953); moa-bone with cuts, Roxburgh; Solomon Islands adzes; adzes from Auckland and Poroutawhao; data from Moawhango by R A L Batley (with map) Arrangement: Notebook no 24 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).
Maori notebook (vol 53)
Date: [1961-1962]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-54
Description: Comprises reports and notes on old Maori burial ground at Paretoa; the site of the outrigger canoe hull, nr Te Horo (with map); unusual adze form pendant, nr Waikanae; Maori net floats; preliminary tour of Horowhenua by Palmerston North Polynesian group, with map showing pa; circular letter to Wairarapa and Manawatu; problematical contents of a Wairarapa Maori cache; cloak-pin or fish-threader bodkin from Castlepoint; memoranda of a Maori skull from the Waikanae dune-belt; identification of a large wooden artefact, nr Waikanae; from Keith Cairns re Maori sites; photographs, L Horowhenua and eastern end of L Papaitonga Arrangement: Notebook no 53 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).
Maori place-names of New Zealand (vol 16)
Date: [1944]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-17
Description: Contents comprise notes re adze types; type VII, VB from Turakina district; Waitaha adze from Porirua Harbour; from Mangaroa; type IIA from Patea; greenstone adze from Levin-Foxton highway area; map of sites of Horowhenua adzes found by Henry J Kilsby; grey stone adze from Heatherlea-Koputaroa area, Horowhenua; blackstone adzes from Onukuwaiata, Waimakaira, Horowhenua and Wallace Road, Levin; location maps of adzes found by A Seifert, A Gillespie, Louis Noara and on Clifford's farm, Tokomaru area (1941-1944); adzes from Makurerua Swamp, Horowhenua Arrangement: Notebook no 16 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).
Maori notebook (vol 60)
Date: [1962]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-61
Description: Comprises report on the Karere Ford patu onewa found near the Manawatu River, near Longburn. Also includes sketches of two toki (adzes). Arrangement: Notebook no 60 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).
Maori notebook (vol 51)
Date: [1960-1961]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-52
Description: Comprises report of visit to Paremata for further colour slides, with notes re these and map showing Maori sites, place-names and European development and slide viewpoints; pannoramic photograph of Porirua Harbour showing geographical features, Maori sites and place-names; map, Motukaraka; sketch plan, earthworks, Fort Strode. Arrangement: Notebook no 51 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).
Maori notebook (vol 52)
Date: [1960-1961]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-53
Description: Comprises report on quadrilateral adze with tang reduction; discovery of canoe hull (waka ama) of form requiring an outrigger attachment, Te Horo; timetable and background notes to tour of Hawke's Bay; notes; sketch of Napier harbour from 1870 map; drawing of small pataka and trig station profile; street map of Napier, with route noted; photgraphs of group (identified); extended genealogy, Tainui and Takitimu canoes to David Winterburn; the magnificent Winterburn adze; squat mere-like patu from Makurerua-Linton area; map, Horowhenua-Manawatu area showing localities of recent archaeological and Maori lore finds, the Makurerua-Linton adze and the Paretoa old burial place Also photographs of Adkin, map showing Maori sites and place-names of the Heretaunga Plains, ca 1850 (from Colenso); and photographs of the Makurerua-Linton patu Arrangement: Notebook no 52 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).
Maori notebook (vol 55)
Date: [1962]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-56
Description: Contents comprise report on the Ngatimamoe adze, north Wairarapa, from K R Cairns; tanged adze from Pukeatua ridge, Lower Hutt, with map; memoranda of tape recordings and other matters with J Brydon Speedy; excavations of a promontory pa site on south head of Owhariu Bay, Wellington, with profile and maps; notes on the archaeology of Waikaretu River, Raglan-Port Waikato coast, with maps; calva (skull cap), Waikaretu; lower mandible, Waikaretu; revered hogback adze, north Waikanae Arrangement: Notebook no 55 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).
Maori notebook (vol 62)
Date: [1962-1963]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-63
Description: Comprises discussion on Maori place-names of Porirua Harbour and environs, northern area from Paekakariki to Wairaka with maps; memoranda of illustrations for Porirua Harbour area with map showing viewpoints and directions; former Maori lines of communciataion and travel (paths, tracks, trails, canoe passage) in the south-western Wellington district, a compilation; Paremata Flat, a cartographic adjustment of early cultural and vocational sites (all with maps) Arrangement: Notebook no 62 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).
Maori notebook (vol 63)
Date: 1963
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-64
Description: Comprises historical notes and early sketch maps of Mana Island (with map); place-names of the Takapu-Porirua town area (includes genealogical chart of Paeroa Wineera from the Tainui and Aotea waka), map of Takapuwahia Porirua area; unexpected evidence of the western Polynesian-Melanesian boundary area origin of the proto-Ngatimamoe...handgrips of weapons and artefacts Arrangement: Notebook no 63 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).