Nīkau

Date: 1920s

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: Objects-0515

Description: Created by artist Trevor Lloyd. Etching plates of unidentified scenery and buildings, including churches, tree ferns and cabbage trees, as well as nikau palms, mostly around Auckland. Two of the plates are engraved recto and verso; one shows a child's face, and the other a landscape. All have been scored through to prevent futher pulls being taken. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 4 object(s). Physical Description: 4 etching plates ; copper 170 x 230 to 180 x 260 mm Processing information: Description edited as part of Objects survey, January 2024. Previous reference: Curios-027-001/004. Previous title: Lloyd, Trevor 1863-1937 :[Cancelled copper etching plates] [192-?].

Date: 1970

From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]

Reference: A-437-540

Description: Shows flowers, berries, seeds, and complete tree of the nikau palm. Artist's list: Rhopolastylis [Rhopalostylis] sapida: Flowers Oct. 1970, capsules Feb. from a cult. plant Appears on page 1079 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand" Other Titles - January Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sheet 261 x 211 mm.

Date: 1989

From: [Posters concerning the environment and environmental protection. 1984-1989].

By: Brown, Nigel Roderick, 1949-; Coromandel Peninsula Watchdog; Pringle, Michael James, 1962-

Reference: Eph-C-ENVIRONMENT-1989-01

Description: Poster featuring a Nigel Brown woodcut showing two figures looking at a waterfall flanked by nikau palms. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on poster 490 x 335 mm. Provenance: One copy donated by Michael Pringle, Wellington, in 2016.

Date: 1885

From: [Various artists] :[Exhibition certificates 1865-1924]

By: Bock & Cousins Lithographers (Firm)

Reference: C-098-009

Description: Exhibition certificate with decorative border using Maori carving and weaving patterns. Within the border are 5 circular vignettes, showing First Church Dunedin, Government House Wellington, the New Zealand seal, Custom House Auckland and Victoria Bridge with the Provincial Council Chambers, Christchurch. In the bottom half framed on the left by a tree fern and flax and on the right by a nikau are the wharves and Post Office building in Wellington, the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition buildings and a Maori man and woman, with Mount Taranaki as a background. Surrounding the printed and hand-written text is a border of leaves and grasses (toetoe, hoheria and maidenhair fern) with taiahas and tekotekos (carved Maori weapons) on both sides Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph with holograph 460 x 355 mm

Date: 1990 - 1995

By: Foster-Barham, Beatrice, 1942-2009; Pasley, Malcolm, active 1990-1995

Reference: C-087-013/018

Description: Scenic landscapes showing tree-ferns, nikau palms, alpine flora, bush. Titles: Inlets (BFB026); Nikau palms (BFB025); Island (BFB022); Rainforest (BFB021); Alpine daisies (BFB024); Alpine buttercups (BFB023). Accompanied by promotional flyer and price list. Flyer shows all prints, with sides brought in slightly. Original price, 1995, was $5.50 per image, or $5.00 each if an order for over 30 was placed. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Beatrice Foster-Barham Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithographs on glossy paper, 420 x 595 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit by the publisher, Malcolm Pasley, in 1995.

Date: [Between 1930 and 1941]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-207

Description: Album of photographs (mainly landscapes) taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1930 and 1941. The album is divided into sections (not in chronological order), many relating to camping holidays with an unidentified companion. Areas covered included a Christmas holiday trip in 1937 to the East Coast and thermal regions around Tikitere and Waimangu, the Morere nikau forest, Mount Maunganui beach, Hongi's track, the buried village at Te Wairoa, and Rotorua. A North Auckland trip in December 1938 included camping as far north as Paihia, Russell and Waitangi, the Waitangi Falls, the Waipoua Kauri Forest and Trounson's Kauri Park, also Auckland, the Kaingaroa Plains and Waiouru Valley. Areas of erosion were noted, and mangrove swamps. An Anniversary Day trip (22-23 January 1939) took Salmon to the Putangirua Pinnacles in the Wairarapa; and in September 1941 he went to the Hawke's Bay area. In 1945 he went on a North Island Expedition working on malaria control, with ?Bissett, and William John Phillipps. February 20-27 1939 was a trip across the Napier-Taupo Road, and included a number of images of the silt and desolation caused by a great flood in the Esk Valley in 1938. In 1936 Salmon went on a geological trip to the Rotorua area, and at Orakei Korako he was particularly interested in "sinter formations" (thermal deposits of silica, of which the Pink and White Terraces were examples). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-23

Description: William Hunt of the Bluff, Pitt Island, his two mastifs, wife Frances, daughter Frances Mary, and sons Frederick William and Herbert Alexander. They are standing and seated among nikau palms. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). According to George Hough and Bill Carter this a Karl Gerstenkorn photograph taken in 1891. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: 1908

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketches

Reference: E-346-3-053

Description: Mature nikau palms and a large tree-fern in a formal garden setting. Belleview Gardens, also known as Ludlam's Gardens were in central Lower Hutt and were established by Mr Ludlam. Although they no longer exist, the mature nikaus that formed part of them have been retained and can still be seen around the Woburn area Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 163 x 224 mm

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-048

Description: A small nikau whare in a clearing at the foot of a tree-fern and other taller trees. Drawn 1 June 1845. Caption added later referring to the 1847 Ngati Toa raid on Boulcott's Farm, Hutt Valley. Other Titles - hut Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. S. 1 June 1845.; On accompanying label: text of title, with date 24 Feb.y 1847 and initials W. S. in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on buff paper, 112 x 90 mm

Date: 1885

From: [Various artists] :[Exhibition certificates 1865-1924]

By: Bock & Cousins Lithographers (Firm)

Reference: C-098-056

Description: Exhibition certificate with decorative border using Maori carving and weaving patterns. Within the border are 5 circular vignettes, showing First Church Dunedin, Government House Wellington, the New Zealand seal, Custom House Auckland and Victoria Bridge with the Provincial Council Chambers, Christchurch. In the bottom half framed on the left by a tree fern and flax and on the right by a nikau are the wharves and Post Office building in Wellington, the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition buildings and a Maori man and woman, with Mount Taranaki as a background. Surrounding the printed and hand-written text is a border of leaves and grasses (toetoe, hoheria and maidenhair fern) with taiahas and tekotekos (carved Maori weapons) on both sides Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph with holograph 460 x 355 mm

Date: 1891

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-40

Description: William Hunt of the Bluff, Pitt Island, one of his two mastifs, wife Frances, daughter Frances Mary, and son Frederick William. They are standing and seated among nikau palms. A horse stands in the background. Photographed by Karl Gerstenkorn in 1891. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). According to George Hough and Bill Carter this a Karl Gerstenkorn photograph taken in 1891. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: [Circa 1920s]

Reference: PA1-o-441

Description: Album of photographs taken circa 1920, by an unidentified photographer. None of the images have inscriptions; only a few places have been identified. Identifiable buildings and locations have been listed above. Many of the scenes are of a two-storey English cottage in the Arts & Crafts style, showing exterior and interior views. There is one of a viewing tower with windows and gables, possibly in the garden of the same house. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, entited "Photo-graphs"; 22.0 x 17.5 cm

Date: 1852 - 1860

From: Crompton, William Morgan, 1811-1886 :[Sketchbook in France and New Zealand] / W M Crompton and A D Crompton, 1844-1882

By: Crompton, Amelia Dorothea, 1842-1858

Reference: E-122-q-050

Description: A single-storeyed house with an established garden, including two flax bushes or young nikau and circular garden beds in a lawn, surrounded by trees, a fence and gate, and hedges. Further drawings of, unfinished, of one-storey houses. Possibly the Crompton family home in Omata Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 165 x 265 mm

Date: 1851 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-077-3

Description: A view of the east end of Rangiatea Church, Otaki, with a cottage to its right. Both buildings are behind a low picket fence. Two Maori are seated under a tree in the centre foreground Drawings of nikau and tree ferns on the reverse The house on the right may be that of Tamihana te Rauparaha Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on paper, 74 x 123 mm (irregular)

Date: 1891

By: Howard, Eliot, active 1890s

Reference: A-234-002

Description: Native forest with kauri trunks, tree ferns and nikau From a sketchbook dated 1891 On same sheet as A-234-003: Mount Eden. Auckland Other Titles - Titirangi Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 178 x 127 mm

Date: 1850

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888

Reference: A-160-023

Description: A North Island bush scene with nikau and other native trees Title inscribed on back. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas-backed paper 212 x 157 mm Provenance: Purchase: Mrs Marjorie Forde, London 1972.

Date: 1986

From: Park, Geoffrey Nicholls, 1946-2009 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9392-070

Description: Papers and correspondence relating to the nikau scenic reserve at Barrytown, near Punakaiki Other Titles - Matter of place Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-08

Description: Native forest with nikau palms, Pitt Island, Chatham Islands. In the right foreground seated are (from left) William Hunt, and sons Frederick William Hunt, and Herbert Alexander Hunt. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: 1876

By: Florance, Augustus (Dr), 1812-1879

Reference: A-196-030

Description: A man sitting astride trimmed logs and kauri trunks, smoking a pipe while he watches another man felling a kauri. A tree fern and a nikau to the right. May possibly show Hutt Forest (where the artist lived) rather than the kauri forests of Northland. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: A.H.F. 1876 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone watercolour 207 x 247 mm

Date: 1895-1900

From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums

Reference: PA1-o-130

Description: Photographs taken in the Bay of Islands and Hokianga districts in the late 1890s, by Frank J Denton. Include several of Paihia; the church with ruins of Archdeacon Williams' house; church belfry (standing alone in a field in front of the church); monument to Archdeacon Williams, Paihia Cemetery, `raised solely by Maori subscription'; and monument to the Treaty of Waitangi. Views of Kerikeri include the oldest wooden house, and the oldest stone house in New Zealand; and Kerikeri Falls (Rainbow Falls). At Waimate views show ruins of the first mill in New Zealand, remains of a factory near the old mill; puriri trees; and Waimate Church. Pakaraka views show interior and exterior views of Pakaraka Church; and `The Retreat', Archdeacon Williams' residence. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth-bound album entitled "Photographic views", 28 x 21 cm