Gisborne Region

Date: 1868 - 1871

Reference: MapColl-832hkm/1868-71/Acc.5976

Description: Map showing the East Cape, Bay of Plenty, Tauranga, Northern Hawkes Bay and just south of Taupo. Shows Te Kooti's approximate route, and direction (arrows on line) and his engagements with the Hauhau people. Stops at certain pa are dated, some added text (before photocopy) e.g. "Final escape to King Country", "Visit to Takangamutu". Key stops included Opape, Tologa Bay, Turanga, Whakatane, Rotorua, Te Pourere, Puketapu. The linking areas for all these points was the Urewera country. Te Kooti was a Rongowhakaata leader, military leader, prophet, religious founder, pursued by colonial forces, eventually took refuge in the King Country where Te Kooti remained until pardoned in 1883. Language - Place names Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, linen backed, scale [1:700,000], 26 x 34 cm

Date: [1890-1965]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-075

Description: Typescripts and photocopies of articles, `Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill)' by M H Wynyard; `Maori geographical knowledge and mapping; a symposium' by P L Barton (Turnbull Library record, v13, n1, May 1980); `A Sketch of Maori church work on the East Coast in early times' by J G Baker; letter with notes on Buin stone implements (1965); manuscript of Eruera Te Uremutu from the Polynesian Society library Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript Typescript with ms annotations Photocopy of ms

Date: 1937

Reference: MS-1789

Description: Produced by a group of East Coast Native school teachers in collaboration with Mr Pine Taiepa, a Maori carver of the Ngati-Porou tribe, East Coast. Includes a legend explaining the use of 3 fingers common in Maori figures Quantity: 1 volume(s) (23 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (duplicated) (26 cm; grey cloth) Includes diagrams

Date: 1910-1965

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0072B

Description: Contains research notes and appendices for articles and publications on subjects such as Tairawhiti history and moteatea Includes excerpts from Te Toa Takitini and Te Wananga. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1943-1949

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0259

Description: File 62 - Contains meeting notices and correspondence regarding the Club Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1900-1920

From: Summersby, Reginald Francis Hinga, 1936-2014 : Papers re Ngati Porou

Reference: MSX-4873

Description: Contains extensive Ngati Porou whakapapal with some other whakapapa from the Bay of Plenty included Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1936-1945

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0649

Description: Contains whakapapa charts, essays and research notes Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1897-1941

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0042

Description: Contains notes, records and research notes on the history of the East Coast and includes a critique of Horouta history, extensive whakapapa and correspondence Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1944

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0089

Description: The contents in this folder contains working notes for lectures in the Porourangi School of Maori culture. With details of the origins of Ngati Porou including whakapapa tables used for their respective lectures. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1980-1999

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to marked walks, trails, tracks and walkways]

By: Fiordland National Park Board; New Zealand. Department of Conservation

Reference: Eph-A-WALKS-Gisborne-1900s

Description: Includes: Anaura Bay Walk [1980s?]. Photocopied booklet Cooks Cove Walkway. 1982. Pamphlet Cooks Cove Walkway. 1998. Pamphlet Te Kuri Farm Walkway. 1996. Pamphlet (2 copies) Lake Waikaremoana Track, Te Urewera National Park, 1990. Pamphlet Lake Waikaremoana Track, Te Urewera National Park, 1993. Pamphlet (2 copies) Lake Waikaremoana Track, Te Urewera National Park, 1999. Pamphlet Otoko Walk [1980s?]. Booklet Otoko Walkway. 1996. Pamphlet Tairawhiti Heritage trail. Gisborne - Potaka. 1990. Pamphlet Tairawhiti Heritage trail. Wharerata- Gisborne - Waioeka. 1990. Pamphlet The Waiapu Mountains of the Raukumara Range. 1990. Pamphlet Walks in the Wairoa District. ca 1999. Pamphlet (2 copies) Wharerata Walkway. (N.Z.Walkways). 1982. Booklet Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: nd

By: Denne, Archibald, Harry, 1900-1972

Reference: MS-Papers-10887

Description: Includes reference to his teaching at Taihape and Oxford, experiences in Maori schools in the Northland and on the East Coast, relations with Sir Apirana Ngata and others, and experiences in Fijian and Chatham Island schools. Includes some sketch maps of the areas mentioned Denne was an inspector of Maori schools 1933-1937, inspector of schools 1938-1947 and senior inspector of schools in Hawke Bay 1947-1948 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (85 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - One cartoon entitled `AHD inspects the sewing'.

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..

Date: 1928

By: Whyte, David, 1865-

Reference: MS-2393

Description: Reminiscences of farming and pioneer life on the East Coast and Hawkes Bay Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (260 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26cm, maroon buckram)

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0067

Description: Contains editorial extracts of Nepia Pohuhu's writings. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter some with ms annotations

Date: 15 Jan 2001 to 6 Sep 2001 - 15 Jan 2001 - 06 Sep 2001

By: Pihema, Joseph, active 2001

Reference: OHColl-0879

Description: Interviews in Maori and English to investigate the early development and changes over time in kapa haka in the Gisborne and East coast districts. The interviewees are John Coleman, Temple and Olive Isaacs, Wiremu Kerekere, Bob and Katarina Paenga, Eru Smith, Henare Swann, Turuhira Tatare, Hone Taumaunu, Rawinie Te Kani, Bishop Brown Turei, Paora Whaanga and Barney and Parekowhai Whaitiri. Awards/funding - Project received an Award in Oral History Interviewer(s) - Joseph Pihema Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015782 to OHC-015796 Quantity: 15 C60 cassette(s). 12 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available biographical information forms only OHA-5660 to OHA-5671.

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-084

Description: Contains extensive Ngati Porou whakapapa

Date: 1961

From: [Turner, Dennis Knight], 1924-2011 :[Illustrations for Myths and legends of Maoriland] [1961?]

Reference: A-060-124

Description: Shows the sleeping giant Matau surrounded by bracken, and Matakauri creeping up with a flaming torch about to set light to the bracken Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 288 cm x 95 cm

Date: 1926

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-171

Description: Newspaper cuttings concerning the cases of John Rutherford of the brig Agnes, who in 1816 was captured by East Cape Maori, and of Barnet Burns in 1829, both of whom claimed to have been made chiefs. The cuttings have been taken from the `Gisborne Times'. Includes articles on early Pakeha/ Maori relationships and cannibalism and some handwritten notes on Hongi. The volumes are labelled `7' and `8', but no other volumes in this sequence have been found. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 2 items.

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).

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.