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Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs
- Date
- 1874-1884, 1938-1972
- By
- Fowler, Percy Leo, 1902-1976Fowler, Percy Leo, 1902-1976
- Reference
- ATL-Group-00104
- Description
Comprises research papers and photographs relating to Fowler's varied interests. Including scripts, short stories, correspondence, research material and notes, notes on Māori recordings, maps, Māori song lyrics, bulletins and newsletters on archaeology, papers relating to Fowler's publications, research material on aspects of Māori history (especially relating to the East Coast region), diaries of Paratene Ngata and James Livingston, mobile recording unit extracts, papers relating to his autobiography, articles, Māori periodicals including 'Te Wananga', 'Matariki' and 'Te Waka Maori' and whakapapa.
The photographic prints include images of Māori people (probably mostly from the East Coast of New Zealand), including Māori performing arts groups (kapa haka), whare nui, carvings and other taonga, archeological sites, landscapes, and family group portraits. One set of quarter plate negatives include images of people, landscapes, and an anniversary parade (probably in Gisborne), taken by unknown photographers (possibly including Leo Fowler); and also a set of 35mm negatives include images of people, including people at Napier's Marineland and posing with the 'Pania of the Reef' statue, some of Māori people performing an action song, family group portraits, and some of a child sitting in a toy car at a petrol station. Most of the locations are unknown.
Source of title - Supplied
Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-2445, Williams family correspondence, which came in to the library with this accession
Arrangement: Original listing available in back file. Photographs and negatives were described in October 2016. Some of the items that were originally described as manuscripts have been given Photographic Archive reference numbers due to storage requirements.
Negatives are held at 1/4-128446-F to 1/4-128529-F; and 35mm-101780 to 35mm-101806.
Leo Fowler was a broadcaster, writer, radio producer and manager. He also helped establish the Gisborne Museum and was its honorary director between 1953 and 1955. He was well versed in Māori culture and maintained close friendships with leading Māori leaders including Rongowhakaata Halbert and Hetekia Te Kani Te Ua. In 1964 Fowler established the Māori programmes section of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service.
Quantity: 137 folder(s). 1 colour original transparency/ies. 90 b&w original negative(s). 20 colour original negative(s). 229 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w copy photographic print(s). 11 colour original photographic print(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera.
Physical Description: Typescripts, printed matter, holographs, and photographs
Finding Aids: For details relating to negatives ask a staff member to access the relevant negative registers (not publically viewable)..
Transfers: Collection as a whole in Manuscripts and transfers to other accounts from there. - To Ephemera Collection - PSIS gift coupon which came from 77-014-2/01E. Transferred when enhancing the collection records in Oct 2013. 10/10/13 AT. - To Photographic Archive - Photographs & negatives from folder 77-014-5/08. Photographs and negatives from other folders in this collection that were enhanced and brought into the Photographic Archive in October 2016 have been added to this accession. - - See PAColl-10510-2 for the photographs that were stored at 77-014-1/06B. - - See PAColl-10510-3 for the photographs that were stored in 77-014-6/01. - - See PA1-o-1963 for the album that used to be stored at 77-014-5/07..
Processing information: This collection was donated to the library in 1977 and its original reference number was 77-014. The manuscript component of the collection records were enhanced in 2013 and 2014 (excluding the photographs) and the reference number was changed to MS-Group-2244. The records for the photographs were enhanced in October 2016. Most of the photographs and negatives have changed location (and reference numbers) at this time. See individual records for details.
The reference number for this collection was changed to ATL-Group-00104 (from MS-Group-2244) in October 2016 to reflect its multi-format nature.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material - The manuscripts and photographic prints have no access restrictions. The negatives and colour transparency require a curator to access.
- Format
- 137 folder(s), 1 colour original transparency/ies, 90 b&w original negative(s), 20 colour original negative(s), 229 b&w original photographic print(s), 5 b&w copy photographic print(s), 11 colour original photographic print(s), 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera, Manuscripts, Personal papers, Photographs, Typescripts, Typescripts, printed matter, holographs, and photographs
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Papers relating to Maoritanga
Date: 1959-1976
From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs
Reference: 77-014-1/19A
Description: Papers relating to Maoritanga including research papers, articles, correspondence and stories. Includes whakatauki (proverbs), a poem/song called "The Song of Maoritanga," an article about Maori education and educators' attitudes to the cultural heritage of Maori youth, a Maori Land Court interim decision on Raharuhi Rukupo delivered at Gisborne 19 Sep 1975, some notes about moemoea (dreams) and their interpretation within the Maori culture, an article by Fowler titled "The teaching of Maori in schools," papers relating to the significance of tukutuku patterns for Ngati Porou and other articles relating to various topics including Wharepuni [sleeping houses], a Maori almanac (re: fishing and planting), a draft story of "The taniwha of Tuparoa" and some loose papers relating to Fowler's autobiography. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Unlabelled miscellaneous material re Maori tribes
Date: [1950-1960?]
From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs
Reference: 77-014-1/04
Description: Papers relating to Maori history, waka history, names and place names, particularly focussing on East Coast tribes, the crew of the Horouta waka and the Maori history of Titirangi [Gisborne region]. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: A chart titled "Maoritanga" was included in this folder, but the chart was flattened by conservation in 2013 and taken out of this folder as it no longer fitted. The chart's new reference number is MSO-Papers-11554..
Photographic prints of people, Māori meeting houses, cultural groups, and landscapes
Date: 1960s
From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs
Reference: PAColl-10510-1
Description: Photographic prints and proof sheets of people, Māori meeting houses, kapa haka (Māori cultural) groups, and landscapes. Includes photographs in various places in New Zealand, as well as the Pacific (probably Samoa), taken by various photographers, circa 1960s. Includes images of details of whakairo carvings and paintings from whare, as well as decorated hue (gourds), a pounamu toki, and the 'Rotorua Whaka Maori Concert Party' performing an action song. The Samoan images include a wedding. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s) Includes one item made up of five sheets with 148 images. 4 b&w copy photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black & white, and colour photographic prints Transfers: These photographs were separated from the material in 77-014/06A for storage reasons in October 2016..
Mobile recording unit, Taranaki
Date: 1943-1973
From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs
Reference: 77-014-2/04
Description: Mobile Recording Unit, Taranaki (1946); note inside folder states that it contains only pages 4-35 of the catalogue. Also includes manuscripts of radio talks re Te Kooti, the Wairau Affray (1843); and Maori historical articles by Fowler. Also includes some broadcast notes relating to what seems to be a broadcast covering Samoa's independence from New Zealand in 1962. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Miscellaneous papers
Date: 1946-1960
From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs
Reference: 77-014-6/17
Description: Research papers including typescript draft of preface to `The Tomahawk and the testament'; notes about Te Kooti and hauhauism; duplicates of some material in 77-014-6/16; list of recordings at Whakato meeting house, Manutuke; `A New look at Te Kooti'; agreement of title for Waerenga-a-Hika block to missionaries (1859); and `Place names associated with the canoes...East Coast and eastern Bay of Plenty' (cyclostyled) (1950s). Language - some Maori place names and waka names Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Reviews of the taiaha and the testament
Date: 1971
From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs
Reference: 77-014-2/07A
Description: Reviews of "The taiaha and the testament" play by Leo Fowler based on the life of Te Kooti Rikirangi Te Turuki, and performed by the Waihirere Maori Club. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Rough notes relating to The Road to Whangara
Date: 1957-1976
From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs
Reference: 77-014-2/01E
Description: Loose papers relating to The Road to Whangara [book] includes notes relating to East Coast Maori history, place names and whakapapa. Includes correspondence from H Te Kani Te Ua relating to Ngati Kanohi whakapapa [typewritten copy of letter] and an incomplete draft of a letter by Fowler written on The Remuera Book Exchange letterhead, which names Fowler as the proprietor and is dated 1976. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Two black and white photographic prints one of a group of Maori sitting on a shady bank by a car with an unidentified Maori woman in the foreground, and the photograph is of three Maori men inside a carved meeting house iwth microphones, so possibly being recorded for a broadcast.
Miscellaneous papers
Date: [1769-1958]
From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs
Reference: 77-014-5/12
Description: Papers relating to Maori history including whakapapa, waiata and correspondence relating to Fowler's novel 'Brown Conflict'. Also includes a copy of typescript `The Storehouse of Hine-mati-oro' also known as 'Te Rakau Tamatea Reke' (p.1 & 4 only); several East Coast genealogies or whakapapa relating to Te Kooti Riki Rangi, Ngati Ira and Ngati Porou. Also an article: `On some Maori place names'; and an outline for `The Road to Whangara'. Also includes a 5 page manuscript [written in an unknown hand] of various versions of the Ngati Kahungunu oriori 'Pinepine te kura', one version is attributed to Te Kooti Rikirangi. Language - Some material in Maori including whakapapa and waiata Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Articles on museums and manuscript The bullocky and the tangi
Date: [ca 1953-1972]
From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs
Reference: 77-014-2/10H
Description: Articles about pounamu and setting up museums, also includes a manuscript for "The bullocky and tangi" by Leo Fowler, as well as an article he wrote fpr the New Zealand Herald "The teaching of Maori in schools" and an accompanying letter from the Associate Editor of the newspaper [1972]. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Papers relating to Waihirere Maori Club
Date: 1970-1972
From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs
Reference: 77-014-2/09B
Description: Papers include correspondence, contracts, theatre seating plans and administrative records. Includes papers relating to Waihirere Maori Club's involvement in the inaugural South Pacific Arts Festival in Suva, Fiji in 1972, and also papers relating to Leo Fowler's play "The taiaha and the testament" and the South Island tour of the play in January 1971. Language - Some correspondence written in the Maori language. Quantity: 1 folder(s).