Te Tiki o Tamamutu (Taupō, N.Z.)

Date: [1900-1910]

From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs from the Auckland Star

Reference: PA1-q-013

Description: Views around the Taupo Tongariro area, including Mounts Ngaruahoe and Tongariro, Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, Lake Taupo and Wairakei. There is one image of the Maori interior of Tom Ryan's whare, one of the Terraces Hotel at Lake Taupo, and others of various buildings at the Spa Hotel (Taupo), including the interior of the dining room. This building was the meeting house Te Tiki o Tamamutu, purchased by John Joshua (proprietor of the Spa Hotel) for use as a smoking room and dining room for the hotel guests. Several images show unidentified Maori women in posed groups, or working with flax, and in one case a woman using a treadle sewing machine. An unidentified man is seen, in several images, fishing at pools below the Aratiatia Rapids. Photographs taken by Auckland Star photographers around the turn of the 19th-20th century. Relationship complexity - Most images are represented by original negatives donated to the Library by the Auckland Star in the 1950s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cloth bound album, labelled "This book must be returned to Mr H Brett's room"

Date: [circa 1920s-1930s]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/4-055591-G

Description: Photograph taken by William Williams showing exterior view of Te Tiki a Tamamutu wharenui located in the rounds of the Taupo Spa Hotel. A lantern and Christmas bell decoration are hanging from the porch rafters. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by Curatorial Services Leader John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative Processing information: Record updated February 2024 with location information.

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-008312-G

Description: Maori meeting house used as a dining room at the Spa Hotel, Taupo, circa 1900. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1928

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1911-1/2-G

Description: View of a collection of small buildings at the Spa Hotel, Taupo. Centre left there is a topiary work tree, and a Maori meeting house building which is used for dining is visible in the centre. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1928. Identification of location and place from Godber's own index filed in Photographic Archives at TL 6/1/15 in the 1/2 plate sequence under S. Spa. Taupo. 1928. Box 107. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1905]

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-4249-05

Description: Maori wooden carved panel at the Spa Hotel dining room in Taupo, circa 1905. Photographer unidentified. The Spa Hotel dining room was formerly a meeting house. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 75 x 191 mm

Date: [ca 1905]

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

Reference: 1/1-010995-G

Description: Garden and dining room (inside Maori meeting house building) at the Spa Hotel, Taupo, circa 1905. Photograph taken by Edward George Child. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Spa. Taupo Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Circa 1928

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1937-1/2-G

Description: View of the amo of Maori meeting house Te Tiki o Tamamutu at Taupo. It was later named Mauri-ora after John Joshua (proprietor of the Spa Hotel in Taupo) bought it for use as a lounge, smoking room and dining room. The photographer, A P Godber is standing beside the amo. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber circa 1928. This image is reproduced in "Carved Maori houses of western and northern areas of New Zealand" by William J Phillipps (1955, p 187), which has the inscription "Fig. 112. Te Tiki o Tamamutu, The Spa, Taupo. (Mr Godber in photo). A P Godber photo". For further information see also "Maori meeting houses of the North Island" by John C M Cresswell. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1887-1889]

From: Birnie, J W: Photographs taken in Taupo including the Spa Hotel

Reference: 1/2-028367-F

Description: Unidentified man with John Joshua, Sophia Joshua and others outside the wharenui Te Tiki o Tamamutu, taken by an unknown photographer between August 1887 and December 1889. Back row left to right: Hohepa Tamamutu; John Joshua; Mrs Kemp (Sophia Joshua's mother); Sophia Joshua. Front: Midge Joshua (born Louise Martha Salter, adopted daughter of John & Sophia Joshua) Date, and names of wharenui and individuals supplied by a researcher. This meeting house was later to become the dining room of the Joshua's Spa Hotel. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).