Nohorua, Te Whatarauihi, active 1760s-1840s

Date: 9 Jun 1851

From: Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898: Maori manuscripts

Reference: MSY-2094

Description: Written at Wainui, north of Paekakariki, near Wellington at the dicatation of elder chiefs of that area. This volume captures a variety of waiata, haka, whakatauaki, karakia and moteatea from the Tainui tribes with particular emphasis on the Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa tribes. Quantity: 1 volume(s) 90 pages.. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies) Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1840-1926

From: Wesley Methodist Church (Taranaki Street, Wellington) : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1185-010/1

Description: Baptism records for the Cloudy Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound, and Tory Channel districts. These records mostly relate to the Maori and whaling communities, including Ngati Toa, Ngati Rarua, Ngati Koata, Rangitane and Ngai Tahu (?). Note, the names included are indicative only and represent some of the Ngati Toa personalities recognised and researchers should carefully check the contents for other names and tribal associations. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1899

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-181

Description: Volume of history of Te Ati Awa in the 19th century written in 1899 by Te Watene Taungatara of Matarikoriko, Waitara at the request of W H Skinner and S Percy Smith, and copy in Smith's hand. Includes account of wars with Waikato and Ngapuhi at Taranaki, battle of Te Kuititanga, introduction of Christianity, migration of Te Rauparaha to Kapiti. A note says `All of this has been incorporated into [S P Smith's] "The Maori history of the Taranaki coast". Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1881

By: Te Kairangi, Atanatiu, active 1870-1913

Reference: Micro-MS-0949

Description: Arranged in four parts this journal explores the history and whakapapa of the Ngati Toa people. It includes detailed whakapapa from Marangaiparoa, son of Toa Rangatira, with a special emphasis on the relationships between Ngati Toa and other closely related Kawhia tribes. The manuscript also details the migration of the Tainui and Te Arawa canoes to Aotearoa, with accompanying karakia; Purakau, or short historical narratives, about numerous Ngati Toa tupuna (ancestors); The migrations of the Ngati Toa tribes from Kawhia to the Kapiti district; And an examination of Maori theological concepts, and includes a discussion about the descent of the Maori people from Adam and Eve. Also records the baptism of various people into the Mormon church at Takapuwahia pa, Porirua, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Publication - This manuscript may be the original source material used by Sir Maui Pomare for the book "Legends of the Maori", 2 volumes [1930]. Other - Microfilmed in 2001 from original in private hands Manuscript journal by Atanatiu Te Kairangi, later acquired by Sir Maui Pomare. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 1844 - 1888 - 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Kirkwood, Henry William, 1854-1925

Reference: B-110-021-2

Description: A seated Maori woman (te Wainokenoke) wrapped in a blanket, to the the left of Nohorua (with full moko). Bhind the couple is Nohorua's son, Tuarua, standing, wrapped in a blanket. The group is depicted 'in a potato ground or clearing at Kahotea, between Takapuwahia and Titahi Bay, Porirua' according to Angas Angas visited New Zealand in 1844. This is a redrawing of his lithograph 'E Wai, his wife. Na Horua ...' plate 19 in his The New Zealanders illustrated (London, 1847). The copyist is probably H. M. Kirkwood One of four lithographs on one sheet, all copies of work by Angas and probably all copied by Kirkwood. The centre of the sheet is inscribed in blue pencil 'Printed 2500 copies' Other Titles - E Wai. Na Horua or Tom Street; Tuarau or Kopai his son at Kahotea near Porirua Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 216 x 145 mm

Date: 1940-1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Centennial Publications Branch : Historical Atlas material

Reference: MS-Papers-0230-007

Description: Various papers, much of which are copied from the Old Land Claims series - National Archives. The evidence relates to whaling and sealing operations throughout New Zealand giving details of whalers, their stations, and the Maori communities they interacted with. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1899

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-181A

Description: Copy of document dictated by Te Watene Taungatara of Waitara to Te Rangi, relating to history of Te Ati Awa in 19th century, in Smith's hand. Note in English: `2 Sep 1899. The first page recites what the history is to relate - from the wars of Atiawa and Waikato, Nga Puhi etc down to the battle of Te Kuititanga and Christianity, then goes on' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1872-1873

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-133

Description: Contains whakapapa from Ngati Raukawa Rangitane and Muaupoko; also contains karakia, whakatauki and notes about the Maori division of time Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: [ca 1850-1870]

By: Houston, John, 1891-1962

Reference: MS-1547

Description: Includes historical notes about meetings, lists of hapu and their tupuna, extensive genealogies of Ngati Toa, an account of Te Rauparaha's actions and notes about Rakera's family. Also includes lists of hapu with their corresponding eponymous ancestor, and an account in Maori of the death of Marore, wife of Te Rauparaha, by the Ngati Pou, and the marriage of Nohorua, the eldest brother of Te Rauparaha, to Wharemawhai of the Ngati Rahiri. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 140 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (24 cm; vellum)

Date: 1842-1849

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0003

Description: Contains papers dealing with the purchase of Maori land; in particular, there are official papers about `Old Land Claims' (ie pre Treaty of Waitangi); there is also extensive correspondence about the purchase of land in the Rangitikei area from Ngati Apa, and a related dispute about ownership between Ngati Apa and Ngati Raukawa; there is also a letter from Henry Tiffin outlining the concerns of Wairarapa Maori about an invasion by Ngati Toa Also includes translation of a letter by the Ngati Toa outlining the boundaries of land ceded to the Crown in 1847. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1844 - 1847

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

By: Hawkins, Benjamin Waterhouse, 1807-1894

Reference: PUBL-0014-19

Description: A seated Maori woman (Te Wainokenoke) wrapped in a blanket and flax cloak, to the left of Nohorua (with full moko and a grey beard). Nohorua wears a shark's tooth earring in his left ear and a greenstone pendant in his right, as well as a tiki around his neck, and is also wearing a blanket. Behind the couple is Nohorua's son, Tuarau, standing wrapped in a blanket. The group is depicted "in a potato ground, or clearing at Kahotea, between Takapuwahia and Titahi Bay - Porirua; in the distance is a cooking shed, thatched with nikau leaves. The chief is seated by the trunk of a tree-fern, and the bird [near the supplejack] is ... the fan-tailed fly catcher. E Wai, was recovering from an illness at the time of my visit, and had therefore been placed under a tapu so strict, that every spot of ground whereon she sat was rendered sacred for a certain number of days; one of these tapued places is represented ... fenced around with twigs that its sanctity may not be infringed upon." Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Other Titles - Te Whatarauihi Nohorua Other Titles - Te Wainokenoke Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm