Tuhourangi

Date: Before 1854

From: Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898: Maori manuscripts

Reference: MSY-2117

Description: Contains waiata, karakia, notes on the Maori language and discussion on aspects of tikanga and social responsibility within Maori communities as recorded by Te Rangikaheke. Also includes chapter containing lists of words with reduplicated forms (hemo = hemohemo); forms of address by Te Arawa and Ngati Kahungunu; relatinship terms used in sentences; list of exterior and interior parts of the body. Discussion by Te Rangkaheke on rangatiratanga (the nature of chieftainship) and the terms applied in relationships (taina me te tuakana). Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1926-1928

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0065

Description: Letters regarding concerns of Farming in the Tairawhiti area and concerns of Township Leases in Rotorua. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Evans, I, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-1519

Description: Photographs taken on holiday in New Zealand by woman identified as I Evans. Comprises photographs of men, women and children from Tuhourangi and Arawa iwi, many in traditional costume; Model Village at Whakarewarewa; Ohinemutu Pa; Lake Rotorua; Guide Ruth, Ana Hato; Guide Rangi; Wairakei geysers; Rotomahana; buried forest; Arapuni; Hongi's Track; Lake Taupo; Wellington Harbour from Ngaio; tobacco growing at Riwaka; apple packing shed at Redwood's Valley, Nelson; Devils Boots, Collingwood; Government Buildings, Wellington; Wainui House, Nelson; houseboat, Whanganui River; self-portraity of photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 151 x 202 mm Provenance: Purchase, 2009

Date: 1877-1972

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

Reference: Series-3334

Description: The papers in this series include material such as volumes, papers, research notes, lecture notes, printed matter, letterbooks, partial diaries and letters relating to research in the areas of Maori dance, language and literature, tribal and family genealogy, Christianity, architecture, carving, tukutuku and education. Some materials in this series are from beyond the date range of Ngata's life but came into the library with the collection. Quantity: 49 volume(s) 47 folder(s). Processing information: Series description was updated in January 2020 following query from a researcher.

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: 192? - 195?

Reference: PAColl-4897

Description: Photographs of Ana Hato. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-177592 to 177609. Quantity: 18 b&w copy negative(s) (copies of original prints returned to owner). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives 100 x 125 mm

Date: 1898-1906

By: Kahui, Raihania, active 1860-1890s?; Southon, Gloria K, active 1900s?

Reference: MSY-6849

Description: Contains detailed whakapapa relating to the tribes of the East Coast, Hawke's Bay, Wairarapa, and some inland tribes such as those situated around Taupo and Rotorua, and also the Bay of Plenty. These whakapapa have been extracted from Maori language newspapers, most notably `Te Puke ki Hikurangi' and the `Matuhi press'. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (143 leaves). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) (34 cm; green buckram; phase box)

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: [ca 1915-1920s]

From: Lockett family: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10271

Description: Photographic prints relating to the Lockett family of Lower Hutt and Karori, Wellington, taken circa 1910s-circa 1920s by unidentified photographers. Some photographs possibly taken by Edith Constance Lockett. Most photographs are group portraits. The photographs also include images from travel to Rotorua, including images of geothermal activity and photographs of Edith Lockett and others standing in front of the carved Maori gateway at Whakarewarewa and in front of a pataka at Whakarewarewa pa. There is also a view of Lake Rotomahana. There are also images relating to horseback riding, and two images of Kenneth Ewart Lockett in uniform, during World War I. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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: [1930s-1940s?]

From: Turnbull Library Pictures: Original photographic prints and postcards from the File Prints Collection

Reference: PAColl-10563-174-62

Description: Taken by an unidentified photographer for the National Publicity Studios at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua. Shows a group of men and kaumatua performing a haka in front of two buildings, a wharenui and pataka. A woman carrying an infant and a wooden flagstaff can be seen in the background. White numbers in the bottom right corner read "3561" and National Publicity Studios' caption information is pasted on the reverse. Annotations on the print mount read "NO NEG; Dup [duplicate]". Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1920 to 1950]

From: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984: Slides, negatives, photographs, letters and printed material

Reference: PAColl-0639-46

Description: Comprises photographs of unidentified Māori and whare, some noted as being in Ohinemutu, Rotorua and Whakarewarewa. Includes portraits, groups of people, men carving, women weaving, and a group performing a haka. Includes photographs of women and children bathing, and cooking in thermal hot pools. Some photographs are taken of the model pa in Whakarewarewa.Some photographs have inscriptions. Includes photographs showing details of wharepuni carvings including amo, and carvings from the Māori School of Arts and Crafts, Rotorua. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 97 b&w original photographic print(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 1897-1909

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-123

Description: Contains whakapapa from Whanganui, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Kahungunu, Ngai Tara and Kai Tahu in particular; also contains detailed information about the Takitimu canoe, lists of Whanganui hapu, notes about the birth dates of Hemi Taitea's children; there are also notes about conflicts between Kai Tahu hapu, and a letter to Hare Hongi from Huru Moana about Maori cosmology Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume). Physical Description: Holograph (Black exercise book)

Date: [188-?]

By: Gudgeon, Walter Edward, 1841-1920

Reference: Micro-MS-0179

Description: Genealogies of Hawkes Bay, Poverty Bay and Northland tribes; index and some vocabulary included Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 100 frames).

Date: ca 1939-1974

By: de Castro, Ian Douglas, 1923-1999

Reference: PAColl-6009

Description: Photograph of Maori concert party, J Force soldiers, Tourists at a war memorial Whakarewarewa (Tehokowhitu a Tu memorial erected by the Tuhourangi sub-tribe), unidentified group, and unidentified man photographed in front of the Parliament Buildings, Wellington. These are part of a larger collection comprising papers of Douglas de Castro including correspondence, minutes and other papers relating to 28th (Maori) Battalion, postcards relating to de Castro in J-Force, news clippings and other papers, including relating to Nikorima de Castro Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1857-1860

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-080

Description: See MS-Papers-1187-079 for details This volume contains draft copies of notices, articles and advertisements that featured in Te Karere Maori. The drafts deal with the following topics; messages from the Queen to Maori, information about agriculture and market prices, news about the mail service, farewells to departing politicians, the establishment of the Maori King movement, peace-making at Rotomahana following intertribal conflicts there, and a report about a Maori meeting at Banks Peninsula Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1891

From: Hitchcock family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11195-30

Description: Folder contains a transcription, signed by Alfred Ginders, of the statement of Patara Ngugnukai of Whakarewarewa, which discusses the eating of human flesh - by him, and by tribal custom. Relationship complexity - See also Papers Past website under Patara Ngungukai Relationship complexity - See also PAColl-5800-30 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1930 - 1935

From: [Programmes and other ephemera relating to Maori concerts, festivals and entertainment. 1930-1939].

By: Rotorua Press

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-CONCERT-1930s-01

Description: Programme booklet shows a head and shoulders photographic portrait of singer Ana Hato on the front cover, and photographs inside of the Tuhourangi Maori Entertainers, and of Ana Hato with Chief Mita Paupopoki. The programme lists items by Ana Hato, Dean[e Waretini], Niki, the girls and the whole company. Included was "Waiata Poi" composed by Alfred Hill. Inside the front cover is an advertisement for the Rotorua Motor Transport Company. Contains autographs of Ana Hato and Deane Waretini. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 217 x 140 mm. Provenance: Purchased from New Zealand Book Auctions 28 March 2010, lot 94.

Date: [ca 1847-1860]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-079

Description: These papers span folders 079 to 081. A note dated Apr 1918 in S P Smith's hand describes the contents as "Original papers supplied to the Govt paper `Karere Maori' in the fifties of last century - mostly in the writing of H A H Monro, native interpreter, Thos H Smith Asst Under Sec Native Dept, and others". The papers include both Maori and English versions of papers for publication. This volume contains drafts of articles, notices and advertisements dealing with market information, opinions about land transactions, the boundaries of various land blocks, Biblical texts and proclamations from the Governor; there is also a letter from Hawkes Bay Maori about the conflict between Te Hapuku and Te Moananui, promising that Pakeha will not be interfered with, and an account of the British colonisation of India and concerns about the effects on the Hindu and Muslim religions. Arrangement: According to Smith's note these papers also originally included letters to Donald McLean from Henry and William Halse and from John Rogan. These letters are now separate, in folders 071 and 129. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss