Tauanui

Date: 1847-1867

From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Maori Manuscripts Librarian working notes

Reference: MS-Papers-6373-05

Description: Photocopies and transcripts of correpondence to Colenso concerning social and religious matters including marenatanga, hoko kakahu, tono pukapuka (kawenata hou), matakite-kupu whakaari. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1883

By: Payton, Edward William, 1859-1944

Reference: G-397

Description: Cleared farmland with flax, the occasional cabbage tree and bush to the left. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - E. W. Payton 83 [in block capitals, in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 205 x 310 mm Provenance: Purchased from John Cordy's, Auckland, in June 1968.

Date: 1844-1849

From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Maori Manuscripts Librarian working notes

Reference: MS-Papers-6373-04

Description: Photocopies of Maoir letters from the Bagnall collection discussing mainly land, religious and social matters

Date: 1844-1845, n d

Reference: qMS-1408-1413a

Description: Attendance rolls generally kept by native school teachers, though there is evidence of William Colenso's hand in some of them. Earliest register (1844) is for the school at Waimate, Northland; the remaining books relate to schools in the Wairarapa district. It is noteworthy that both Mohi Torohanga and Paratene Te Okawhare are listed as pupils at the schools; they are the source of the text scribed by Te Whatahoro and subsequently used by S P Smith in writing about Maori cosmology and origins (See JPS 103 no 2); other notable pupils include Te Horo and Paora Te Potangaroa who both established prophetic movements (see Elsmore, B 1989 Mana from Heaven) There is a note on one of the books in Elsdon Best's hand. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 7 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (29 cm; brown paper wraps, in maroon linen tie case)

Date: 1849

Reference: A-035-007

Description: Cleared and fenced land with tall trees to the right and behind a farmhouse. The house is single-storied with a thatched roof, a verandah around the front and visible left side. On the left is stacked timber drying. Flax bushes in the right foreground. Shows the homestead of the artist's son-in-law, John Tully John Tully, the runholder, married the artist's oldest daughter Frances (Fanny) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and Chinese white on prepared grey paper, 120 x 190 mm

Date: 13 May 1849

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

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0673B-11

Description: Written from Tauanui regarding land sales in Wairarapa Quantity: 1 piece (4 pages on 1 leaf).

Date: 1845 - 1855

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Waghorn, Florence Mary, 1908-1989

Reference: A-035-031

Description: Shows Tauanui River district, Wairarapa, an extensive landscape with cliffs and hills in the background, the river in the foreground and the palisades of a pa in the middle distance The name Pirikawiti is not in current use; however Tawanui refers to the Tauanui River, Wairarapa, close to where the artist lived Other Titles - Tauanui, South Wairarapa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 180 x 260 mm Provenance: Previously in the collection of Russell Mein Smith, Wairarapa.