Polynesia

Date: 1839

By: Hale, Horatio Emmons, 1817-1896

Reference: MS-0923-0924

Description: Quantity: 3 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss

Reference: MapColl-940a/[n d]/Acc.3460

Description: Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: 26 x 45 cm. blue tracing cloth. No scale given

Date: [1940-2005]

By: Hughes, H G Alun, active 1949-2003

Reference: MS-Group-0595

Description: Comprises copies of Hughes's reviews for various periodicals, particularly `Reference reviews', but also `The Outrigger', Rongorongo studies and others, and newsletters, on a variety of material relating mostly to the Pacific area. Includes reviews on books on Cantonese, the Pacific Islands Library and the papers of H E and H C Maude, `Periodicals in print', a directory of British organisations with a China interest, a reference grammar of Tok Kisin, Hawaiian, `Rongorongo studies' edited by S R Fischer; bibliographies of Hughes's publications (1948-1949, 1951-1994); list of Hughes's papers in the Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide; bibliographies on education in Micronesia, Samoa, Tonga, Guam; information sheets on the Polynesian Literary Competition (1995) of which Hughes is a permanent moderator and for a conference, Environment and Development in the Pacific (1995) Microfiche of notes on Gilbertese custom and tradition from Te Nutipepa, R P Gilson's Samoan papers in PMB 1003, bibliographies of education in Samoa, Guam and Micronesia and Hughes's Pacific correspondence (1976-1990) Reviews of various publications on the Pacific region; essay on language change Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 9 folder(s). 0.09 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts (some carbon copies), printed matter and microfiche Finding Aids: See Back file for listing of papers of Hughes held at the University of Adelaide Library; also available at http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/ual/special/hughes.html. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Dr H G A Hughes, Wales, Apr 1997; (A97-169) May 1997, (A2000-234) Sep 2000; Jun 2003 (A2003-208); Nov 2003 (A2003-357); Jul 2006 (A2006-154); Sep 2006 (A2006-201)

Date: [1985-1990]

From: Pollock, Nancy, fl 2001 : Papers relating to Micronesia and the Pacific

Reference: fMS-Papers-7196-4

Description: Clippings on various South Pacific issues and concerns including social life and customs, religion, and other matters, mostly from the `Dominion' (1985-1990) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1952

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-073

Description: Four lectures (typescript with holograph annotations) of a series of six delivered at the University of Otago by H D Skinner on research work at the Otago Museum; the introduction includes discussion of the taniwha, lectures two and three of the water symbol in Maori art, and lecture four on carving and related topics Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript with mss annotations

Date: 1968-1988

Reference: MS-Papers-5707

Description: Comprises history of Stonehenge and analysis of its importance both in its own context and to that of other similar sites including Godthaab, Lhasa, the Sphinx and Kerguelen Islands, and connecting with Polynesia, the Maori and other cultures. Includes gazetteer, glossary, bibliography. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (374 leaves). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1778 - 1780

By: Samuel, Richard, active 1770-1786; Page, active 1812

Reference: A-119-003

Description: Shows the (supposed) costumes and customs of Pacific Islanders. Includes trees, a canoe, a fortified village, a floating ice island, a kangaroo and a European sailing vessel in the sea in the background. Most figures are derived from the illustrations to Cook's voyages, and the whole image appears to have been copied and rearranged by the French wallpaper-maker Joseph Dufour who produced his panoramic wallpaper 'Les sauvages de la Mer Pacific' (The natives of the Pacific Ocean) in about 1807 or 1808. The setting is nominally Tahiti, but the peoples depicted come from (from the left) Easter Island, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Australia, Tahiti, the Marquesas, and Tonga. A New Zealand pa is in the background atop a hill to the right and an ice-floe is in the distance beyond the ship. See 'An inside story - Dufour and Charvet's wallpaper of the South Seas' by Roger Collins in: Bulletin of New Zealand Art History, Vol 9, p. 5-13 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 152 x 279 mm

Date: ca1890-ca1925

From: Anastasiou, Spiros :Photograph albums associated with the Evans Family

By: Evans, John Edward, 1843?-1912; Evans, Martha Ann, 1868-1955

Reference: PAColl-4921-1

Description: Unidentified group portraits, photographs of Polynesians, masonic grave, a wedding breakfast and Lyall Bay Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1815 - 1835 - 1838 - 1818 - 1836 - 1843

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Choris, Louis Andrevitch, 1795-1828; Monin, active 1835; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842

Reference: A-318-037

Description: Shows an outrigger canoe with triangular sail, and five people aboard. They are passing the waterfront of an island on which a group of dwellings is shown among palm trees and vegetation. Plate 147 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist and Monin as the engraver. Plate XIV of the Isles Sandwich section of Choris' "Voyage pittoreque autour du monde" (1822). Other Titles - Polynesie - Vue d'une ile dans le groupe Krusenstern Other Titles - Polynesia - View of an island in the Krusenstern group Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 147 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm.

Date: 1954-1956

By: Wright, Olive, 1886-1975

Reference: MS-Group-1163

Description: Comprises three letters in French from Fleuriot de Langle to Olive Wright in response to ones from her querying and discussing certain phrases, terms, expressions etc used by Langle in writing his book `La tragique expedition de Laperouse et Langle' in relation to her translation of the work. Copy of volume with minor annotations. Language - All the material is in French Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescript and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Smiths Book Shop, Wellington, Mar 2003

Date: 1960 - 1969

By: Volunteer Service Abroad Inc

Reference: Eph-B-INTERNATIONAL-VSA-1960s

Description: Includes the following cards, all with title: "Join Volunteer Service Abroad as a volunteer or member": Volunteer accountant David Ashby of Palmerston North, on export development in Western Samoa Volunteer dairy technologist and nurse, Robin and Carolyn Fenwick of New Plymouth, at work in India Volunteer doctor Margaret Neave of Lower Hutt running mother and child health clinics in Western Samoa Volunteer farmer / mechanic Peter Lowe of Ashburton, demonstrating improved rice culture in Thailand Volunteer mechanic and carpenter on an irrigation scheme in Thailand Volunteer Neil Bellingham of Rotorua, helping to building a school in N.E. Thailand (2 copies) Volunteer nurse, Jann Niven of Upper Hutt, on community development work in Malaysia (2 copies) Volunteers training a Thai villager to use and maintain an irrigation pump VSA President, Sir Edmund Hillary, visiting a community and agricultural develpment team at work in Thailand VSA President, Sir Edmund Hillary, visiting Rex and Jann Niven of Upper Hutt on community development work in Malaysia VSA teachers are at work in Malaysia, Brunei, Melanesia and Polynesia (2 copies) Date estimated because Neil Bellingham is reported to have worked for VSA in Thailand in 1964-1966. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 330 mm. Provenance: Donated by Volunteer Service Abroad in 1980 (Deposit record D 2814, 27 November 1980)

Date: [1982]

From: Stratford, Peter : Epsom Trust collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11750-46

Description: Papers relating to Polynesian Tattooing book including contract with Brigham Young University: Institute for Polynesian Studies, correspondence and rough draft for the publication. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0 Linear Metres.

Date: 1908, 1935

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-091

Description: Published by Angus & Robertson, 1935. Also includes a folder containing one page of research notes, and two newspaper clippings from a series of articles titled 'Under the black ball' published in 'the Sydney Mail' dated 27 May 1908, and 17 June 1908. The articles are written by Douglas Rannie. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter. One volume with a folder of clippings and one page of research notes

Date: 1968-1993

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: Series-6571

Description: Photographic prints, negatives, and slides, including prints mounted in album, relating to various locations in the Pacific and New Zealand, by Kathleen Montagu Hancock, dated 1968-1993. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 222 b&w original photographic print(s). 108 colour original transparency/ies slides. 58 colour original photographic print(s). 43 b&w original negative(s). 10 colour original negative(s). 3 album(s). Physical Description: Colour and black and white photographic prints, negatives, and slides, including photograph albums.

Date: 1890s-ca1923

From: Brusey family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-974

Description: The first and largest section of this album records a trip in Canada and possibly the United States, made by a young man with a motor car about 1923. The second section are photographs taken on a visit to possibly Hawaii or Tahiti. Local people are recorded as well as a number of yachts tied up along the waterfront of a town, and a white warship. The third section include family photographs taken in Britain in the 1890s, and several shipboard views, two of which show what are probably crossing the line ceremonies involving a canvas swimming pool. Towards the end of the album a group of family photographs are associated with a large wooden New Zealand house. There is no information with the album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1876

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps

By: McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978; Justus Perthes Verlag; Petermann, August Heinrich, 1822-1878

Reference: MapColl-910a/1876/Acc.33635

Description: Shows South-east Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the eastern Pacific Ocean to latitude 170 degrees west. Has insets of Fiji, Samoa, New Caledonia, Tonga, Caroline Islands, Norfolk Island and others Referenced in Tooley, no 957 McIntosh Collection, item 6 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Engraving, coloured, scale 1:40 000 000, 32 x 39cm

Date: [1890s?]-1947

From: Ngata family: Papers

Reference: Micro-MS-0232-2

Description: Microfilm containing volumes of whakapapa and history, with typescript and handwritten notes by Sir Apirana Ngata. Includes research notes and copies. Reel 2 comprisies folder 2/1 to folder 3/2. Contains whakapapa, notes about Ngāti Porou history, Ngāti Ira and Ngāti Hauiti. Also includes a sketch of the whare Rongomai Aniwaniwa in Tikitiki, and extracts from publications, including: - Journal of the Polynesian Society articles relating to Ngāti Porou, the East Coast and Polynesia. - Māori Land Court minute books; Gisborne, volumes 4-18, Waiapu, volumes 20-41. Not all associated names are indexed. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [1858-1876]

From: Phillips family : Papers

By: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925

Reference: MS-Papers-6532-1

Description: The contents probably comprise parts of a proposed report on aspects and proposals relating to Polynesia; includes appendix B, `A Short account of the circumstances through which Tahiti fell under the protection of France' (extract from `A Trip to Tahiti' by W K Bull, 1858); appendix E, original rough draft of a proposed scheme for a trading company for Polynesia (1876); introduction to a paper, not included (1876); extracts from `Adventures in New Guinea' by Louis Tregance (1876); clipping and extract re Tonga (1876); and summary of contents of full report Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1830

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps

Reference: MapColl-910a/[ca.1830]/Acc.34907

Description: From the Sir Alister McIntosh Estate McIntosh Collection, item 80 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Engraving, outline colour, scale [ca. 1:55 000 000] at Equator, 19 x 27 cm.

Date: 1808

By: Swoboda, Franz von, active 1808

Reference: MapColl-916atc/1808/Acc.6668

Description: Photocopy of reproduction in `Remarkable maps of the xvth, xvith, & xviith centureis' 1895, edited by C H Coote, v. 2 section II, no. 5. Quantity: 1 map(s) photocopy. Physical Description: 30 x 40 cm. Scale [ca.1:25 000 000]