Tattooing using traditional methods and tools. See also Tā moko (Tā ngira), the term for Tattooing (Contemporary)
Tā moko (Uhi)
Photographic prints relating to ethnology and government
Date: 1950-2000
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: PAColl-7327-1-071
Description: Photographs relating to Maori ethnology and government departments, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Images relating to government departments are arranged alphabetically from A to DE. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.
Māori carvings, communities and activities
Date: [between 1880-1970s]
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: PAColl-6056-09
Description: Photographs taken between1880 and 1979 of rangatira, tāngata Māori, and Māori communities and activities, along with a variety of photographs relating to taonga, wharenui, and toi whakairo. Also contains images of Māori on thirteen 'Three Castles Virginia Cigarette" cigarette cards, and hand sketched lithographs of facial moko designs. Some of the images are annotated on the reverse. Three photographs relating to Te Poho o Rangiahua meeting house in Frasertown, near Wairoa have the words 'On loan from Maori Affairs Dept' annotated on the reverse. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 70 b&w original photographic print(s). 14 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Transfers: Two letters found with photographic prints PAColl-6056-09; 32 and 33 are at MS-Papers-12909-6.. Processing information: Letters separated from photographic prints for preservation and storage reasons.
Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947 :Reproduction of Goldie's painting A good joke (Al...
Date: 1905 - 1950 - 1963
By: Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947
Reference: E-278-q-096
Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of an elderly Maori man, with full moko. He is wearing a bowler hat, greenstone earrings, a brown jacket and grey waistcoat with a piece of coral in gold attached to a chain across his waistcoat. Portrait of Te Aho te Rangi Wharepu From an original oil painting in Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 120 x 90 mm, on card 140 x 90 mm
Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947 :Reproduction of Goldie's painting A good joke (Al...
Date: 1905 - 1950 - 1963
By: Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947
Reference: E-278-q-096-A
Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of an elderly Maori man, with full moko. He is wearing a bowler hat, greenstone earrings, a brown jacket and grey waistcoat with a piece of coral in gold attached to a chain across his waistcoat. Portrait of Te Aho te Rangi Wharepu From an original oil painting in Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 120 x 90 mm, on card 140 x 90 mm
H T Whatahoro Jury - Whakapapa book
Date: 1855-1909
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B014
Description: Contains cosmological notes about Rangi and Papa, the children of Rangi and Papa, the separation of Rangi and Papa, the creation of women, the flight of Hine-nui-te-po and the death of Maui, notes about the divine origins of various items and practices, and the various activities of the children of Rangi and Papa Also contains notes about conflicts involving Manaia at Hawaiki, and a subsequent flight to New Zealand and further fighting in New Zealand There are notes about 18th and 19th century conflicts involving Wairarapa hapu, including waiata, and subsequent peace-making in the face of external invasion; there is also a `genealogy' of whare wananga Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: ½ brown calf, black boards, 33 cm., vol numbered 4
Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Hongi. Chief and spouse with tattooing of rank. [ca ...
Date: 1900
By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967
Reference: E-280-051
Description: Copy of a carving of a chief and his wife greeting each other. The woman has more tattooing on her face than was customary in Robley's day in the 1860s. The forehead moko is `Maketu' and the mouth moko is `Ngaiterangi'. Shoulders are covered with whakairo. The carving was taken to England by Lord Onslow and put up ay Clandon Park, Surrey. Similar images at E-280-016 (1-7) See notes on verso of E-280-016-2 Inscriptions: Verso - Hongi. Chief and spouse with tattooing of rank Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on postcard 140 x 90 mm
Robley, Horatio Gordon 1840-1930 :[Tomika Te Mutu. A finely tattooed chief of Tauranga....
Date: 1865
By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930
Reference: A-280-012-a-4
Description: Head and shoulders three-quarters frontal portrait of fully-tattooed Maori chief Tomika te Mutu From M. S. papers 16 See also: "Moko", p. 22, fig. 15. Photographs of another version of E-280-012 This version is placed centrally on the postcard. The other versions at A-280-012 are placed on the left side of the card Inscriptions: Verso - in ink 'Tomika te Mutu, finely tattooed chief of Tauranga. A photograph of a sketch taken from life by General Gordon Robley in 1865'. Below are crossed out notes: 'When our present King and Queen met 7000 Maoris at P. O. on June 18. 14. 5. 1906 [sic] the Artist sent it in an enlarged painting in rem' [crossed out note ends abruptly] Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph on postcard
Sainson, Louis Auguste de, b 1800 :Nouvelle-Zeeland. Portraits des indigenes. [Plate] 1...
Date: 1833 - 1840
By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Laderer, active 1830s
Reference: A-327-003
Description: Shows head and shoulders portraits of two women, one man and an infant. These are selected from Plate 70 in Dumont DUrville's "Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe ... (Paris, 1833), portraits 3,5 and 6, and therefore show Ekara, young girl of the Bay of Islands, and Tawiti and his wife. Tawiti's wife holds a baby wrapped in her cloak by her shoulder. Plate 176 from an unknown publication in German or Dutch, derived at least partly from Dumont D'Urville's "Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe". Other Titles - New Zealand. Portraits of inhabitants Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 100 x 154 mm.
Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 :Te Tanewha or Hook Nose aged 96. Chief of the Ngatewhanaung...
Date: 1853
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881
Reference: E-144-062
Description: Half-length three-quarters frontal portrait of Te Horeta te Taniwha. He has moko, a greenstone ear adornment and wears a hei tiki. He wears a white European shirt, Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: Chas. Heaphy. Title bottom centre in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original, 12 x 9 in
[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :Whaka-Ue-Nuku / J S Allan [Wellington] 1889
Date: 1891
From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890
By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Allan, Joseph Stuart, 1861-1930
Reference: B-110-012-4
Description: A standing portrait of Whakauenuku, a Maori boy One of four proof lithographs on a single sheet measuring 447 x 285 mm. All four are derived from lithographs by G. F. Angas in The New Zealanders illustrated (London, 1847). This is adapted from part of the lithograph titled 'Ko nga Waka Te Karaka (or Clark), the Christian chief of the Ngati-Waroa tribe, Waikato, and Wakauenuku his attendant boy', Plate 47, showing a seated Maori chief in European clothing alongside a standing boy in a flax cloak. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 99 x 170 mm
Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Tutu Ngarahu. [Maori war dance. ca 1900]
Date: 1865 - 1900
From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Tutu Ngarahu. Maori war dance. [ca 1900]
By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930
Reference: E-280-052-01
Description: Shows a leaping Maori warrior with tewhatewha, wearing a feathered loin cloth, full tattoo on face, and thigh (puhoro) performing a haka. The haka is called tutu ngarahu Similar images at E-280-011 (1-5) Inscriptions: G.R.; Recto - beneath image - Tutu Ngarahu Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard 140 x 90 mm
Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Tutu Ngaraha. [Maori sentry performing haka]. G Robl...
Date: 1880 - 1865 - 1890
By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930
Reference: E-280-011-3
Description: Shows a Maori warrior performing a haka. He is holding a tewhatewha. There is detailed tattooing known as `puhoro' on his left thigh. Tutu ngarahu is the name of the type of haka See also "Moko", p. 32, fig. 27. Almost identical drawing of Tutu Ngarahu on E-280-011-5 has the inscription on verso `carved gate at Maketu 1865'. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of a drawing on postcard 140 x 90 mm
Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Tutu Ngarahu. [Maori war dance. ca 1900]
Date: 1864 - 1900 - 1865
From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :[Postcards. ca 1900]
By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930
Reference: E-280-078
Description: Shows a leaping Maori warrior with tewhatewha, wearing a feathered loin cloth, full tattoo on face, and thigh (puhoro) performing a haka. The name of the haka is tutu ngarahu Similar images at E-280-011 (1-5). Same image at E-280-052-1 Inscriptions: G.R.; Recto - beneath image - Tutu Ngarahu Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard 140 x 90 mm
[Strutt, William] 1825-1915 :Taranaki native [1855 or 1856]
Date: 1855 - 1856
From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 1st series.
By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915
Reference: E-452-f-011-2
Description: A seated Maori man, holding a taiaha (spear). He is wearing a flax rain cape over European clothes, has short hair and moko Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 180 x 240 mm
[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :A mako - imitation tooth of a shark at Otawhao. Very ...
Date: 1844
From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]
By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886
Reference: A-020-029
Description: Various Maori artifacts, including a carved shark's tooth, a tiki, a dagger and a club, a flute, a greenstone earring and a drawing of a woman's lip and chin tattoo. Other Titles - Pounamu (greenstone), he kumete (a bowl) Quantity: 7 drawing(s) (on recto). 1 drawing(s) (on verso). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 230 x 313 mm
Auckland City Art Gallery :Collection of post cards and greeting cards reproduced from ...
By: Gully, John, 1819-1888; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Archipenko, Alexander, 1887-1964; Epstein, Jacob (Sir), 1880-1959; Moore, Henry, 1898-1986; Greco, Emilio, 1913-; Gascar, Henri, 1635-1701; Cipper, Giacomo Francesco, active 1705-1736; Zuccarelli, Francesco, 1702-1788; Wearing, E; Tissot, James Jacques Joseph, 1836-1902; Sartorius, John, 1755-1881; Netscher, Gaspar, 1639-1684; Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 1775-1851; Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Cuyp, Aelbert, 1620-1699; Barker, Thomas, 1769-1847; Lindauer, Gottfried, 1839-1926; Te Mamaku, Hemi Topine, -1887; Te Anaua, Hori Kingi, -1868; Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973; Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891-1915; Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl, 1881-1976; Rouault, Georges, 1871-1958; Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937; Bourdelle, Emile Antoine, 1861-1903; Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903; Signal, Paul, 1863-1936; Barbieri, Giovanni Francesco, 1591-1666; Maillol, Aristide Joseph Bonaventure, 1861-1944; Matisse, Henry, 1869-1954; Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919; Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985; Manet, Edouard, 1832-1883; Bassano, Leandro, 1557-1622; Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908
Reference: E-046-001/057
Description: Reproductions of works of art Quantity: 57 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured and b&w prints, various sizes. ¼ blue morocco box
Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Tutu Ngarahu. Maori war dance. [ca 1900]
Date: 1865 - 1900
From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Tutu Ngarahu. Maori war dance. [ca 1900]
By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930
Reference: E-280-052-07
Description: Shows a leaping Maori sentry with tewhatewha, wearing a feathered loin cloth, four huia feathers in his hair, full tattoo on face, and thigh (puhoro) performing a haka. The haka's name is tutu ngarahu Similar images at E-280-011 (1-5) Inscriptions: [Signed] G. Robley; Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard 90 x 140 mm
Wellington and Napier views
Date: 196?
From: Folprecht, Frantisek Josef :New Zealand scenery
By: Folprecht, Frantisek Josef, 1914-1989
Reference: PA12-0026
Description: Quantity: 13 colour original transparency/ies (35mm).
Preston, G M :Album of Maori photographs
By: Preston, G M (Miss), active 1982; Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Gordon, William Francis Robert, 1846-1936
Reference: PA1-o-423
Description: Carte-de-visite sized Maori portraits. A number of the portraits have been identified. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black card cover, embossed with flower pattern; 23.5 x 30.5 cm
Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Tutu Ngarahu. [Maori war dance. ca 1900]
Date: 1860 - 1900 - 1869
From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Tutu Ngarahu. Maori war dance. [ca 1900]
By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930
Reference: E-280-052-02
Description: Shows a leaping Maori warrior with tewhatewha, wearing a feathered loin cloth, full tattoo on face, and thigh (puhoro) performing a haka. The haka's name is tutu ngarahu Similar images at E-280-011 (1-5) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - G.Robley; Recto - beneath image - Tutu Ngarahu Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard 140 x 90 mm