Ngāti Wahiao

Date: 1944-1950

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0319

Description: File 120 - Contains letters and notes regarding the Society. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: [ca 1909]

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-7992

Description: Negatives of Rotorua, Whakarewarewa, and Taranaki, taken ca 1909 by R G Marsh of Rotorua. Most of the images are of tourists and guides around the hot springs at Whakarewarewa, but there are also several school portraits taken at Okaiawa School and Convent School, Hawera. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-220000-G to 1/2-220068-G Quantity: 69 b&w original negative(s). Provenance: Purchased at auction, Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, 2003

Date: 14 July - 2 Oct 1993

Reference: OHColl-0619/1

Description: E korero ana a Bubbles mo nga ahuatanga noho i te wa i a ia e tipu ake ana i Whakarewarewa, te reo pakeha, mo tetahi pakiwaitara o Te Arawa me tetahi ano e pa ana ki te putake o nga wahi ngawha. E whakamarama ana ia mo tana mahi kaiarahi, mo te mana whakahaere o nga kaiarahi i tona wa me mua atu o te tau 1938, mo nga ture me nga tikanga raupapa mo nga kaiarahi, e korero ana hoki mo te 'hinengaro' Maori, mo o ratau kakaku mahi, te whakaingoatanga i nga ngawha me nga puna me te nehu tupapaku i nga wahi pera i a Whakarewarewa. E maumahara ake ana ki tetahi kohimuhimu 'not much of a guide is she', mo wetahi ahuatanga o te arahi turuhi, mo te rahuitanga i te rohe potae o nga ngawha o Whakarewarewa me te tuwheratanga i te kura whakairo. Nga korero mo Millie, Sophia, Bella, Maggie Papakura, Alf Warbrick, Dick Tom, me Mike Moore. Nga turuhi i haramai ma runga tima, te wa e nui ana te mahi, te whakatipu rakau, te tiaki tamariki, nga wahine ki te tiaki i nga kainga. Sophia me te wa i pahu ai a Tarawera, he whakamarama mo te hanga piupiu, ana whakatau kia ratau e ahei ana ki te arahi turuhi. Bubbles talks about life in Whakarewarewa, learning English, Te Arawa waka region and a legend about how the thermal regions came to be. Discusses how she became a guide, management of guiding 1938 and prior, 'native intelligence' from mentors, uniforms, male guides, naming of geysers and hot pools. Describes burials in the geothermal area. Recalls experiences with tourists, describes tour tracks and time it took to take a group, group numbers per guide. Talks about their uniforms and payment, rules, discipline and regulations, the government and private reserves, the Carving School. Mentions guides Millie and Bella, Guide Sophia, Maggie Papakura, Mike Moore, Alf Warbrick and Dick Tom and the tourists from cruise ships. Refers to time of no unemployment, forestry, childcare and women keeping the home fires burning. Talks about Guide Sophia and the Tarawera eruption, some of the processes for making piupiu and a message to those considering guiding as a vocation. Interviewer(s) - Dr Keith Dewar Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s).

Date: 1940

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to Maori. 1940s].

By: Rotorua morning post (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1940-01

Description: Invitation card and programme, with handwritten name of addressee Hoani Te Heuheu. The front cover shows a photograph of the meeting house and an illustration of the Arawa canoe. Inside are illustrations of Tamatekapua the captain of the Arawa canoe entering the estuary of Maketu in the year 1340, and of Wahiao a celebrated chief of the Arawa people, with a whakapapa showing how he is descended from Tamatekapua. The back cover shows the programme, and a photograph of the late chief Mita Taupopoki. The invitation is issued by Te Aonui Dennan, H Tai Mitchell and the Tuhourangi and Wahiao tribes. Text is in English and Maori. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on pamphlet, folded to 228 x 147 mm.

Date: ca 1900s

By: Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers)

Reference: PAColl-7512

Description: Postcards of Mita Taupopoki of Rotorua seated in a doorway holding a taiaha and wearing a kakahu; Pera Tutoko in a feather cloak holding a carved stick; Hitiri Te Paerata; half-length portrait of Pirohi; three quarter length portrait of Petera Whataiwi holding a patu; head and shouldes portrait of Patara Te Tuhi showing his moko; half-length portrait of Tahi Tahi holding a patu; head and shoulders portrait of Taraia Ngakuti Te Tumuhuia; two of Ngakurapana, a Ngapuhi chief; head and shoulders portrait of Rangiriri of Rotorua (different from the other Rangiriri in this collection); head and shoulders portrait of Taurau Kukupa; three quarter portrait of Mohi Te Puatau with moko holding a carved wooden patu (also identified as Wetani Rore Tatangi); a head and shoulders portrait of Rangiriri; and an unnamed Maori chief with moko. They are all part of the Tanner Brothers Maoriland series of postcards. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-005198, 005199 and 005462 Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1920?]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 16

Reference: PAColl-7344-23

Description: Mita Taupopoki, possibly taken in Rotorua, in 1920, when the Prince of Wales presented medals to members of the Pioneer Battalion. Taupopoki wears the New Zealand Medal. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: Harris, John, active 1930s

Reference: Eph-C-SHIP-1930s-01

Description: Shows Maori chief Mita Taupopoki in cloak and ornate costume and headdress, with taiata and tiki, standing in front of palisades, carved post, and whare, with snowy peak in distance. At bottom are vignettes of Rotorua's steaming geysers, and of steamship. Identity of the subject confirmed by the February page of a 1933 calendar featuring a colourised photograph of the chief from the NZ Tourist Department. Other Titles - The chief Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Liverpool agents: White Star Line, 30 James St., Liverpool. Glasgow agents: P. Henderson & Co., 95 Bothwell St., Glasgow C.2.; Recto - bottom right - John Harris Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 456 x 303 mm.

Date: 18 Jul 2002-8 May 2003

By: New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute; McGregor, Taina Hoia Tangaere, 1940-; Manuel, Riki, active 1990s; Mihinui, Dorothy Huhana, 1919-2006

Reference: OHColl-1162

Description: Comprises 17 interviews with guides, carvers and weavers of the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute in Rotorua by Taina Tangaere McGregor. Conducted in 2002, the first phase of seven interviews focuses on the guides of Te Whakarewarewa Thermal Valley. In 2003, a second phase of 10 interviews focuses on the carvers and weavers of the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute, which has resided at Te Whakarewarewa since 1963. The Institute opened a national carving school in 1967, followed by a weaving school in 1988. Interviews describe early life in Te Whakarewarewa village, education, whangai families, becoming a guide, the guiding experience, tourism, managing different types of tourists and their expectations, promoting Māori culture, concert parties, learning traditional Māori arts, payment systems, uniforms, unions and changes to the business structure. Some interviews describe the local geothermal area, parks, diving in the river, swimming and sports, cooking in steam boxes, family involvement and connections, and the management of geysers, hot pools and bores. Some interviews describe learning how to weave and carve, types of materials used, different styles, weaving kete, piu piu, korowai and tukutuku panels, carving pou and houses, working as a group and as individuals, and the influence of people such as Guide Rangi, John Taiapa, Clive Fugill and Emily Schuster. Interviewees are Homai Riripeti Balzer, Ian-Wayne Reihana Grant, Riki Henare Manuel, Honoria Kahuiatara Matenga (two interviews), Bubbles Huhana Mihinui, Dorothea (Dolly) Tarihira Morgan, Teresa Murray, Edna Porena Pahewa, Kerehitina Ratema, James Rickard, Charles Eldon Fayne Robinson, Albert Poai Te Pou, Ramona Miriam Thompson, Roi Darwin Toia and Todd Couper (interviewed together), Pipiana Wikiriwhi (Whitcliffe). Ian-Wayne Grant, Fayne Robinson and Thomas Tamati Ratima (interviewed together). The interviews are recorded on audio and video formats Accompanying material - 'A study of the art of Teresa Murray', 1999, by Karl Leonard, Te Wananga o Raukawa Abstracted by - Taina McGregor Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-019683 - OHC-019714, OHCD-0240 - OHCD-0241 Original video recordings: OHV-1064 - OHV-1073, OHV-1091 - OHV-1097 Abstracts: OHA-6817 - OHA-6832 Quantity: 31 audiocassette(s). 17 interview(s). 15 videocassette(s) Super-VHS. 2 videocassette(s) VHS. 2 compact disc(s). 1 C90 cassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1917 - 2003