Wood poles

Date: 1880s

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

Reference: PA1-o-2072-08

Description: Taken by an unknown photographer in the 1880s. Shows a pou tokomanawa, central post figure, seated with crossed legs. Carved by Wero Tārio of Ngāti Tarāwhai. An annotation beneath the photograph reads "Wairoa", which refers to Te Wairoa near Laka Tarawera. The pou once held the notice board outside Rotomahana Hotel, Te Wairoa village, which was buried by the Tarwera eruption in 1886. Eric Craig was the last recorded owner, was listed for sale in 1898 in item at library reference ArtEph-1898-C-01. Source: Roger Neich, Auckland Museum. "Help needed to find the Aukati Post". 'Rotorua Daily Post', 9 Jun, 2017. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/help-needed-to-find-the-aukati-post/TTVL72MVAP22RFKGYMMVY52E4U/ accessed 26 October 2023. Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - 307; Mount recto - beneath image - Wairoa; Umukarina Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Processing information: Description updated September 2023. Previous reference PAColl-6056-04-07. Previous title: Photograph of a central post figure.

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-028-1

Description: Full length squatting stylised portrait of Te Rangihaeata holding a pipe or other object and carved by himself. It formed the lower portion of the central pillar supporting the roof of Rangihaeata's house on Mana Island, the house being known as Kaitangata. The image was about 4 feet high and had eyes of inlaid paua shell. Original sketch for lithograph In: Angas G F "New Zealanders Illustrated", Plate XLVI, no. 1 p.105 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 134 x 228 mm

Date: [1934]

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: MS-0850

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (5 numbered pages). Physical Description: Ms (24 cm; red linen)

Date: 1922 - 1940

From: Brooks, Catherine, 1884-1980 :[Thirty (30) watercolours of Auckland, Onehunga and Rotorua. 1922-1940].

Reference: A-306-037

Description: Shows a sawn-off lamppost with a red postbox attached to it, and a sign on the top reading "Summer St". There is a yellow flowering bush behind the pole beside the footpath. In 1998, there is a Summer Street in Ponsonby but not in Onehunga. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 178 x 96 mm.

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-015

Description: Carved native boundary post erected near Bell Block; one study includes a group of Maori. Quantity: 3 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 230 x 40 mm to 305 x 190 mm

Date: 1960 - 1970

By: Cometti, Ronald Holten, 1933-2008

Reference: A-464-017

Description: A Maori mother, with her baby wrapped in a cloak on her back, lowers a woven flax container containing kumara, to be cooked in a natural boiling pool, probably in Rotorua. By her feet are two calabashes or hue, used to carry water. A carved pou stands on the right of the image, and a geyser gushes on the left Probably published in Auckland, where Cometti was based. The title and description were attached to the framed work, with the overall title 'New Zealand heritage' Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 343 x 315 mm Provenance: Donation: Patrick Robinson, Australia, February 2014. Works were found framed, in a basement in Roseneath, Wellington

Date: [1960s-1980s?]

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

Reference: 35mm-105314

Description: Pou, tukutuku and kōwhaiwhai at Tunohopu Marae, Ohinemutu Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: From box 27 in donor's list Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Black and white original negative, approximately 6 x 6 cm

Date: [1960s-1980s?]

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

Reference: 35mm-105315

Description: Pou, possibly at Tunohopu Marae, Ohinemutu. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: From box 27 in donor's list Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Black and white original negative, approximately 6 x 6 cm

Date: [1960s-1980s?]

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

Reference: 35mm-105320

Description: Pou and tukutuku from Tokanganui-a-Noho, Te Kuiti. Taken by Margaret Orbell. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: From box 27 in donor's list Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Black and white original negative, approximately 6 x 6 cm

Date: [1960s-1980s?]

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

Reference: 35mm-105317

Description: Pou, tukutuku and kōwhaiwhai at Tunohopu Marae, Ohinemutu. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: From box 27 in donor's list Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Black and white original negative, approximately 6 x 6 cm

Date: [1960s-1980s?]

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

Reference: 35mm-105316

Description: Pou, tukutuku and kōwhaiwhai at Tunohopu Marae, Ohinemutu Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: From box 27 in donor's list Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Black and white original negative, approximately 6 x 6 cm

Date: [1960s-1980s?]

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

Reference: 35mm-105321

Description: Pou and tukutuku from Tokanganui-a-Noho, Te Kuiti. Taken by Margaret Orbell. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: From box 27 in donor's list Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Black and white original negative, approximately 6 x 6 cm

Date: 1924

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-2-135

Description: Photograph of a building at Waihi Redoubt, Normanby with carved poles standing at each corner and enclosed behind a wooden fence. Taken 1924 by Robert E Wells. Other - same photo as PAColl-0001-2-2-136 Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Photos of historical interest 1924; Verso - centre - Print 2. Specimen of Maori carving to be seen at Waihi Redoubt, Normanby, South Taranaki. The trenches just below, surround this on 4 sides, in the shape of a square. Quite a number of "Maori holes" are to be found on the far side of the building.; Verso - bottom centre - Robt E Wells, Box 114, Hawera Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 10.2 x 15.6 cm

Date: ca 11 Sep 1985

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s

Reference: EP/1985/4066-F

Description: The first of ten carved pou being laid in place during the Waiwhetu Marae's 25th birthday celebrations. Photograph taken by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin, circa 11 September 1985. Shows Waiwhetu trustee and former secretary of Maori Affairs Kara Puketapu, Waiwhetu Marae member Teri Puketapu, and Marae chairman Richard Luke, handling the pou which was named after former local chief Ihaia Porutu. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: 11 Mar 1995 - 6 Apr 1995 - 27 Nov 1996

From: Hawkes Bay oral history project

By: Hayes, John, 1940-

Reference: OHInt-0438-07

Description: John Hayes was born in Hastings in 1940. He spent his early years in Wellington returning to Hawkes Bay at the age of seven. Comments that he did not know his father who was overseas during World War II and then separated from his mother. Recalls living with his grandmother in Lower Hutt while his mother was matron at Wellesley College, Eastbourne. Recalls his mother remarrying in 1950. Describes being a boarder at Napier Boys High School and leaving school at the age of sixteen to go shepherding. Recalls that his parents drew a farm block in the Waikato. Describes working on a station milking cows and making butter. Talks about his marriage in 1966 and becoming manager of a farm inland from Wairoa. Describes working on another property near Wairoa and comments on relationships amongst staff. Mentions violence. Describes managing a property between Gisborne and Wairoa. Recalls Maori shearing gangs and a thriving rural infrastructure. Talks about hunting in the Ureweras, buying an old home and developing the land, an increase in land values and buying a smaller property at Tongoio. Mentions his wife's death from cancer. Recalls working with Elders Pastoral as goat co-ordinator, moving to Waipukurau as general agent and the devastation of Cyclone Bola. Recalls returning to Tongoio, community spirit, tennis matches and meeting his new partner. Describes moving to Havelock North and working for Mobil. Describes overseas travel and his family's activities. Discusses new developments in farming including the farming of ostriches, emus and llamas and reafforestation. Recalls the speed with which farming changed as a result of the removal of farm subsidies and deregulation. Discusses parochialism and the issue of the location of Hawkes Bay hospital. Discusses Maori protestors. Talks about collecting things, garage sales, car boot sales and auctions. Discusses his stable where he keeps his collection of hill country machinery. Talks about tourism and the nationalities of tourists. Mentions his partner's Dutch origins and returning to Holland with her. Discusses clothing including the Swandri. Talks about buying and selling totara posts and batons. Recalls being part of the Hawkes Bay Hunt which hunts the hare. Comments on MMP. Mentions a son who has returned from his OE (overseas experience) and relationships as a result of the OE. Comments on the cost of tertiary education. Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Interviewer(s) - Joyce Paton Accompanying material - Newspaper cutting about his business Totata Antique Posts which he runs from Totara Stables. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-7924,7925,7926,7927; OHLC-4031,4032,4033,4034. Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2138. Photograph of John Hayes in accompanying newspaper cutting Search dates: 1940 - 1996

Date: [1960s-1980s?]

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

Reference: 35mm-105309

Description: Three carved pou inside a whare Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: From box 27 in donor's list Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Black and white original negative, approximately 6 x 6 cm

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

Reference: 35mm-106120

Description: Pou and fence Wahiao Marae Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: From box 28 in donor's listing Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Black and white original negative, approximately 6 x 6 cm

Date: [1960s-1980s?]

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

Reference: 35mm-105405

Description: Carved pou Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: ATL box 15, bundle 1 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Black and white original negative, approximately 6 x 6 cm

Date: [1960s-1980s?]

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

Reference: 35mm-105425

Description: Carved pou Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: ATL box 15, bundle 1 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Black and white original negative, approximately 6 x 6 cm

Date: [1960s-1980s?]

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

Reference: 35mm-105423

Description: Carved pou Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: ATL box 15, bundle 1 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Black and white original negative, approximately 6 x 6 cm