Māori (New Zealand people) - Commerce

Date: 1874-1878

From: McDonnell, Alexander Francis, 1866-1938 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0151-13

Description: Contains letters from Maori to the Hawkes Bay Times and Te Wananga about a variety of topics, including the language(s) of the newspapers, payment of subscriptions and issues dealing with Maori land tenure Also contains letters from Maori to John White Quantity: 1 folder(s) (28 leaves). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1865 - 1845 - 1866

By: Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868

Reference: B-014-007

Description: A large thatched storehouse (pataka) on four poles to the left, outside a fenced area containing three houses (one with a European-style slab chimney), and a smaller taller storehouse in a tree on the far right. A group of Maori outside the fence appear to be selling potatoes to a European. No. S97 in Richard S. Schneiderman's catalogue raisonne. State vi/vii. Other Titles - New Zealand. Native store-houses and dwellings at Akaroa. Banks Peninsula [translation] Collector's mark on recto, a stamped monogram with AM in a circle. (The same mark appears on B-014-003). The Library holds another copy of the same print, same state, at B-014-006, more heavily inked than B-014-007 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 5 x 9 inches

Date: 1840-1874

Reference: qMS-2136

Description: Extract from reminiscences of J J Taine concerning Wellington debentures in 1845; includes samples of unissued Bank of Otago notes and Maori banknote for one pound: Ko te Peeke o Aotearoa, kotahi pauna, issued by King Tawhiao, possibly in the 1880s. Language - Some items Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (4 leaves, 25 items in pocket). Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter (35 cm; blue linen)

Date: 30 Sep 1838

From: Brown, Alfred Nesbit (Archdeacon), 1803-1884 : Inward correspondence and agreement

Reference: fMS-Papers-7510-2

Description: Agreement of sale by Tauranga chiefs of land for Anglican Mission, Tauranga, in Maori with several signatures, James Stack, witness (30 Sep 1838) Language - Document in Maori, with translation Accompanying material - Accompanied by translation of document Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1815

By: Trial (Ship)

Reference: MS-2157

Description: Testimony taken in Sydney; relates to the Trial trading in New Zealand waters; includes three promissory notes for flax, signed with sketches, presumably taken from the moko of the signing chiefs; includes names of all the crew Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (4 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms (Photocopy, 26cm, blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1907-1929

Reference: MSY-1831

Description: Ledger book of the bank set up by Rua Hepetipa. Records council decisions, accounts, deposits and withdrawals, and sales in the community store. Accompanying material - To be found in MS-Papers-3954 The bank, `Moni Peeke o Rua Hepetipa', was set up by Rua Hepetipa at Maungapohatu ca 1907. The ledger appears to have been kept by the first leader of the Council of the Leader of the Lord of This World, to which Rua passed the responsibility of day to day running of the Maungapohatu settlement, the bank and community store (`Te Miini Kerekere'). Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1879-1886

From: McDonnell, Alexander Francis, 1866-1938 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0151-14

Description: Contains letters from Maori to various Maori language newspapers, including Te Wananga and Te Korimako; these letters cover a range of topics including Maori land tenure, Maori commerce, the opening of a church building, and wish list for the contents of the newspapers Also contains letters addressed to John White, about employment prospects, and ethnographic research Quantity: 1 folder(s) (24 leaves). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1909

From: Patete family : Diaries and other papers relating to Haimona Patete

Reference: MS-Papers-5689-05

Description: Receipt book for the purchase of shares in the Maori Hoteera Kamupene Ltd (Maori Hotel Company) A copy of a related subscription form has been added to the folder (the original of the subscription form is held in the Ephemera collection at Ephemera B MAORI 1909) Relationship complexity - In the Ephemera collection, there is a subscription form with explanatory information about the origins of the company (Ephemera B MAORI 1909); a copy of this has been included with this item Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1907-1929

Reference: MSY-1831A

Description: Ledger book of the bank set up by Rua Hepetipa. Records council decisions, accounts, deposits and withdrawals, and sales in the community store. Accompanying material - To be found in MS-Papers-3954 The bank, `Moni Peeke o Rua Hepetipa', was set up by Rua Hepetipa at Maungapohatu ca 1907. The ledger appears to have been kept by the first leader of the Council of the Leader of the Lord of This World, to which Rua passed the responsibility of day to day running of the Maungapohatu settlement, the bank and community store (`Te Miini Kerekere'). Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1839-1841

By: Robinson, George Frederick, active 1839-1841

Reference: Micro-MS-0861

Description: Brief and irregular journal entries from 28 Feb 1839 to 20 May 1841 describe life on ship, time spent in Sydney and details of the New Zealand coastal trade. Included at the back of the journal is a vocabulary of Maori words (3 pages), and miscellaneous notes, drafts of letters and accounts kept by Robinson. Source of title - Supplied Robinson sailed from Liverpool for Australia on 28 Feb 1839 on the `Heber' to trade in cotton and other goods. After a brief sojourn in Sydney he sailed for the Bay of Islands, arriving at Kororareka on 15 Jan 1841. He was involved in coastal trading between Bay of Islands, Coromandel and the East Coast. In Apr 1841 he sailed for Auckland, and left for England on 20 May 1841. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Physical Description: Holograph (Positive microfilm)

Date: 1998

By: Waerea, James, 1940-2019; New Truth & TV Extra (Newspaper)

Reference: J-044-014

Description: Shows a rugby league player with a traditionally carved Maori face. He tells the homeless within the Tainui tribe, that the $3.5 million of Tainui money was well spent on buying the Warriors rugby league team. Exhibited in 'The Line-Up' exhibition of 36 cartoons by 36 cartoonists curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited in the National Library auditorium foyer from 5 April 2002 to mark the tenth anniversary of establishment of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive. Extended Title - Tainui Warriors. Tainui Homeless. "Get a life! $3.5 million was a steal." Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 photocopy

Date: 1887 - 1864 - 1865

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Tutu Ngarahu. Maori war dance. [ca 1900]

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: E-280-052-10

Description: Shows the chief in European clothes holding a patu. Behind him a Maori in a cloak is seated beside a basket and a Maori head. In the background to the left is a Maori in a rowboat and a twin-masted sailing ship. Very faint image Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Verso - top right - 87 [Year postcard was printed [?] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard 90 x 140 mm

Date: 1877

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; McCulloch, George, active 1859-1901; Kell, C F, active 1877

Reference: B-080-031

Description: Shows 14 scenes from Maori life. Reading from top left: Te Raku [Maori man poling a laden canoe along a river]; Whata [Maori provision house on low poles]; Te Rangatira [Maori man o horseback]; Bird catcher; Maori whare [wharenui with carved entrance porch]; Fishmonger; Rubbing noses "Tena-koe" [a man and a woman, both carrying produce, hongi-ing]; Maori hack-race in full costume [horse race by a man wearing nothing but a long shirt and a woman in elaborate hat and European dress]; Maori woman going to a tangi; Going to market [a woman and a man with a child on his back leading a pig]; Travelling [a man in bowler hat and feather cloak leading a horse, accompanied by a dog]; One of the old Wellington Police force [head and shoulders portrait of a man with full moko and Police uniform]; Gathering pipis [women and children on a beach with flat kete digging up seafood]; Te Kiore [a seated man with kiwi feather cloak, moko, a pipe in his mouth, a blanket under the cloak] Published as pl. 6 in: Barraud, C D New Zeland graphic and descriptive.... Extended Title - From: New Zealand graphic and descriptive. London, 1877. Plate 6 [final plate in the volume Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, black and white on beige ground, 411 x 294 mm on sheet 450 x 330 mm

Date: 1961 - 1962

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.); C M Banks Ltd; Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964

Reference: Eph-D-MAORI-1962-01

Description: A single sheet calendar shows a picture by E Mervyn Taylor, of a group of Maori in traditional dress, conducting a bartering arrangement. The attached text sheet discusses pre-European times, ceremonial feasts, trival possessions, food, spare time pursuits, canoe builders, tattooing, property ownership, tohungas, exchange, the coming of the white man, tattooed heads, trade for muskets and land, British coinage. The text sheet also has small illustrations by E Mervyn Taylor. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, on sheet with attached calendar, 570 x 335 mm, and black and white sheet of text overlaid, attached at top by metal bar and hanging loop. Provenance: Donated by Brian de Joux, Wellington, in 2011.

Date: 1770 - 1956 - 1831 - 1957

From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].

Reference: B-140-012

Description: Six-panelled account of Maori traffic with Europeans in mokomokai or dried heads, from 1770 (a head sold to Joseph Banks) to the 1830s and later. The trade was banned around 1831, but continued illegally These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.

Date: [1973-1975]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-068

Description: Papers relating to UNESCO project, Ethnic Group Relations in Asia and Oceania, which included study of Maori incorporations. Includes contract information and specifications, speech or article on the original form of Maori tenure, speeches or articles on `Tenurial change and the development of laws relating to incoporations' by McEwen and `Economic viability and the growth potential of incorporations' by W Winiata. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 1st series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-452-f-014

Description: Nine small studies of standing and seated Maori, mostly in groups. Include a seated portrait of a woman called Martha, wrapped in a blanket, and of a Maori man taking a pig on a rope to market in Taranaki. Three groups of seated Maori are labelled 'Onehunga nr Auckland'. One drawing is a study for Strutt's 'Maori girl with a dog' Quantity: 9 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 40 x 50 mm to 90 x 125 mm

Date: 1861

By: Harland, John Sawdon, 1828?-1862; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-159-036

Description: Shows a group of Maori travelling along a road or track. In front (at left) is a man walking, smoking a pipe, with a large woven kete on his back. Next on a white horse is a Maori woman also smoking a pipe, with a baby tied to her back. Behind the white horse is a grey foal. Then comes a brown horse carrying a pipe-smoking man and a small child standing on the horse's back behind him. Last comes a Maori man walking with a pig and a dog on leashes. They are passing a cabbage tree, some toetoe grass and a flax bush (all labelled). Notes about the family of the artist John Sawdon Harland are on the verso of the mat. Accompanies the artwork in the same folder. Other Titles - Maoris going to market. Maori. Inscriptions: Signed: J S Harland; mat verso - [Extensive notes about the family of John Sawdon Harland] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 67 x 216 mm Provenance: Formerly from the collection of Captain A W F Fuller

Date: 1835 - 1831

By: Lauvergne, Barthelemy, 1805-1871; Himely, Sigismond, 1801-1872

Reference: B-098-005-a

Description: Two groups of French sailors assisted by Maori hauling fishing lines in from the sea at Kororareka (Russell). Other French sailors are chatting to Maori women. The accompanying text from LaPlace's text (Volume 4 p. 46) describes the local Maori as being importunate in attempting to acquire powder, shot and biscuits from the sailors; and all the local young women distracting the sailors from their fishing by running in front of them. The view looks along the beach to the west, to bush-clad hills beyond. LaPlace was in New Zealand at the Bay of Islands in October 1831. Other Titles - Kororareka Beach, New Zealand. Extended Title - From: LaPlace, C. P. T. Voyage autour du monde, Plate 65. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, black and white; 285 x 376 mm

Date: 1880s

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-5319

Description: Maori traders at Pakaitore Pa, Wanganui, photographed in the 1880s by Edmund Wheeler & Son. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.6 x 20 cm om mount