5 Maori notes

Date: [19-?]-1945

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-41

Description: Includes a description of a Ngapuhi tangi `Puhipi Te Riri Dies, Nga Kuku'; letter to Tamaho Maika in 1929; brief note on cannibalism and the practice of preserving the bodies for food; various letters to the editor of the Dominion regarding the Maori New Year and Haka performances; includes a compilation of letters and transcripts from various people eg Percy Smith to and from the Polynesian Society about Toi or Whiro Toi, waiata, karakia, purakau or stories, myths, grammar, whakapapa and Moriori; includes an essay `Bryce's raid on Parihaka'; `The Priest Pakeha settler'; Maori grammar and possible evolvement from Egypt; a waiata tangi regarding suicide; a purakau on `Tane and Hine Ao'; an essay on whether `Karihi and Tawhaki' were real brothers; an essay on `Early Maori history'; the proceedings from the `Otamatea Hui - Easter 1941' where there were descriptions of the powhiri or welcoming ceremony and of the issues which were addressed, the Maori war effort, the Treaty of Waitangi and land; also includes a query from the Native Department about the naming of Maori children with the same names as their parents Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, mss and typescripts (some with ms annotations)

Date: [19-?]-1930

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-40

Description: Includes a poem from Pat Lawlor,`The Ould bog hole' and a poem, with explanation, `Freya'. Also includes a waiata tangi (funeral dirge) written by Te Ika Here Ngutu regarding his children who were either killed in conflict or died of disease later on. Includes a school haka for `Victoria College' and an index with Maori headings; lists of Maori place names for various regions (Wellington, Napier, Gisborne) and provides linguistic rules and grammar for appropriate pronunciation. Also includes whakapapa, an essay on comparative language between Maori and the Pacific Islands. Includes the song `Pokarekare ana', and list of names with ages and gender [perhaps a shareholders list] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph (some with ms annotations), mss and typescripts

Date: [19-?]-1940

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-43

Description: Includes a land deed with signatures and a description of the land block; a 15th century Maori karakia with translation; a manuscript on Maori mortality; an undecipherable manuscript with annotations; a piece of the finer points of Maori grammar; a study of the Maori concept of Tangi; historiography on Turi, Aotea and Kupe; a Maori proverb or whakatauaki; the whakapapa of Ngati Paoa'; the history of Takitimu waka including its iwi and the lands of all those tribes affiliated with Takitimu waka; also includes a 'Ture kamupene' document from 1908; includes an essay regarding 'Te Huia'; and also an essay on 'Tuwhare and Ngapuhi'; also contains a Christmas poem in Maori and an English translation Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, mss (some with holograph annotations) and typescripts (some with ms annotations)

Date: 1920

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-45

Description: Waiata from Ngapuhi eg waiata aroha and waiata putorino or flute song; also several waiata tangi describing the loss of a daughter from the Rangitikei / Manawatu area and waiata tangi from Maru iwi; waiata poroporoaki or farewell songs from people such as Tawhiao and several hymns covering a wide range of topics from Christianity to the `Mt Egmont Hotel' in Hawera; several war songs about the Orakau battle, Maori soldiers overseas during World War One, a waiata hari or `Triumph Song' and many other war songs from iwi on the East Coast; also songs about birds and Maori welcomes. Essays and articles on Maori food preparation and preservation about birds, body embalming and preserving heads, Maori lunar calendar, Ohaewai land claim, pataka, archaeology, Taranaki Maori history, Maori creation and Maori evolution, stories with an essentially New Zealand theme, the meeting proceedings between the Premier and Maori at Patea, on William Cowper, Maori taonga and artifacts found in a Ohaewai Cave in the Bay of Islands, a swimming pool with the skeletal remains of Frenchmen in a settlement in England, an account of the `Death of Hauraki, a Hokianga Chief' during the New Zealand Wars in 1845-1846, on Maori and Polynesian origins, protest to the Treaty of Waitangi in 1913. Photographs of landscape such as the Whangarei Heads and Mt Manaia, photograph of a Chief, Pokai Tete, letter to Sir James Carroll and another to Sir Maui Pomare, includes card play tactics in cribbage and also whakapapa of Hongi Hika of Ngapuhi and Kapewhiti of Taranaki also includes 92 whakatauaki and material on Ngapuhi grammar or Maori phrases. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts (some with ms annotations) and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [19-]-1940

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-42

Description: Includes an exercise book `Whangai Makariri' which contains information on land sales, whakapapa, purchases and prices; typescript on land claim of the Ngati Tama people `Whakapuaka Block'; use of macrons in Maori language; and the "Kaiuku Pa Affair" at Mahia where a tribal war or pakanga took place between some Waikato and Ngati Kahungunu iwi; papers relating to the Whanganui iwi; historiography related to Toi, Tawhaki, Kupe and Hone Heke; whakapapa and land dealings of Ngapuhi; translation of the Treaty of Waitangi and contemporary view of the Treaty; essay on the origin of the Moriori and a transcript pertaining to a carefully constructed scene of an `authentic' Maori village Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, mss and typescripts (some with ms annotations) Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1926-1944

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-52

Description: Includes lessons, grammar notes and stories to translate into English (Whakapakehatia); also table of contents to `The Strange Maori' by Stowell; also the song `The Red Flag' of the British Labour Party written in 1892 by Jim Connel; songs such as `In praise of beer'; and printed matter on the World War Two `March on Yugoslavia' April 6, 1944 and `Human remains' found in a cave in Christchurch Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, mss and typescripts (some with ms annotations)

Date: 1800-1900

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-46

Description: Contains various descent tables for a number of tribes, particluarly Ngapuhi, a table showing descent of Stowell from Toi Te Huatahi, and whakapapa showing relationship between himself and Waaka Te Huia and Hone Heke MHR, Kamariera Te Hau Takiri Wharepapa and others. Includes a letter from Waaka Te Huia commending Stowell on his work preserving whakapapa of the northern regions. Also a whakapapa chart for Ngapuhi showing relationship to Ngakuku Mumu, the tohunga who schooled Stowell in his youth. Also contains whakapapa charts for Ngati Toa showing descent of Matenga Te Hiko, Raiha Puaha, Wi Parata and Wi Patene, and some whakapapa for Ngati Raukawa. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (some with ms annotations)

Date: [18-?]-1929

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-39

Description: Includes a waiata pani or funeral dirge from Waikato written at the time of King Tawhiao; includes an Arab proverb and numerous articles from the `New Zealand herald' pertaining to Maori and Pakeha proverbs; includes an essay on Maori proverbs and whakatauaki and several whakatauaki gathered for a film called Amokura Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph (some with ms annotations), mss and printed matter

Date: [1920-1930]

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-49

Description: Includes material on Maori language, lessons, vocabulary lists and correspondence from the school to Stowell himself Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, mss and typescripts (some with ms annotations)

Date: 1928

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-51

Description: Contains material on the Maori language, grammar and essays to be translated into Maori eg `Nga Karere o Mahuru'; also Native Interpreters Examination [1920s] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts (some with ms annotations) and printed matter