Te Pahi, -1810

Date: 8 Jan 1806

By: King, Philip Gidley, 1758-1808

Reference: MS-Papers-0720/2

Description: Letter giving information on Australian agriculture and describing the visit of Ti-pa-te, Chief of the Bay of Islands country, and his four sons, to Australia. King announces his intention of sending a party to New Zealand with them for several months. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies)

Date: 1806-1817, 1898

By: Bruce, George, 1778?-1819

Reference: MS-0336

Description: Title continues:`...being the memoirs of George Bruce, native of London and first European resident in New Zealand, upon whom on his adoption into the native race the rank of chief was conferred in 1806.' Includes lists of names of places, ships and persons incidental to the Bruce mss; plan of New South Wales, illustrations from books of aspects of Bruce's life, for example, drawing of Tippahee (Te Pahi), the `Lady Nelson' at Hunters River, buildings at Shadwell, Greenwich Hospital, and plan of buildings at Sydney. Whitley gives a commentary on the transcript at MS-0337 and includes notes on `Memoir of Duaterra, a late chief of New Zealand' by Samuel Marsden; letter from Mitchell to Bruce re the manuscripts (1898); copies of letter with enclosures from the Admiralty to Whitley; and notes by Whitley on aspects of the manuscript Source of title - Transcribed Other Titles - Cover title: New Zealand, George Bruce, 1806 Relationship complexity - See also MS-0337 for copy of the original manuscript which is in the Mitchell Library, New South Wales; and Micro-MS-0227 for further version in Mitchell Library, and Micro-MS-0533 for copy of version in the National Library of Australia Written at Greenwich Hospital in 1817; this version compiled and abridged from the original manuscript in 1898 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 80 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter (maps, illustrations) (26 cm; ½ brown calf, dark brown marbled boards) Provenance: Compiled and abridged from original in 1898 by Whitley, then owner of the original

Date: 1806-1817, 1907

By: Bruce, George, 1778?-1819

Reference: MS-0337

Description: Bruce describes his experiences in the Bay of Islands, where, as possibly the first white resident he was tattooed and married the daughter of the chief, Te Pahi; he describes Maori customs, lists ships visiting New Zealand Includes extract in A H Turnbull's hand of letter from Macquarie to the Under-Secretary of State concerning Bruce (1814) from `Historical records of New Zealand' vol 1 (1908); and part of letter from the Mitchell Library concerning the various Bruce manuscripts Source of title - Transcribed title Other Titles - Cover title: New Zealand, George Bruce, 1806 Relationship complexity - See also MS-0336 another copy of Bruce's reminiscences, compiled and abridged by Thomas Whitley; also available, Micro-MS-0227 of original in Mitchell Library and Micro-MS-0533 of original in National Library of Australia Quantity: 1 volume(s) (113 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (25 cm; ½ brown calf, light brown marbled boards) Provenance: This copy, made by Thomas Whitley in 1907, is a transcript of original manuscript, dictated by Bruce

Date: 1810 - 1830

Reference: A-059-008-a

Description: The image of the tattooed head of Te Pahi with text below advertising its display (as a shrunken head, or moko mokai) in England between 1810 and 1830 Illustration on reduced facsimile (22 mm) of broadside (original wood engraving and letterpress, with imprint: Seven Dials [London] ; Printed by R Johns, [181-?], advertising display of preserved head of Te Pahi, which was headed: "New Zealand. To be seen at", and completed in ms.: "Mr Harrison, hatter, Market Plans..." Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, b&w ; 101 x 76 mm Provenance: Purchase: 'Sold by Bonner, ca 1956' [in pencil, lower right, repeated on verso]

Date: 1827 - 1805

By: Harris, George Prideaux Robert, 1775-1840; Archibald, W, active 1827; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-092-007

Description: Shows a three-quarter-length portrait of a chief with two feathers in his hair, wearing a cloak over one shoulder and a pendant in the shape of a skull, holding a mere in his left hand. In the background is a river or lake with a war canoe with armed warriors on board. G. P. Harris was in Sydney when Te Pahi visited in 1805 Other Titles - Te Pahi Extended Title - Frontispiece from H. Murray's "Adventures of British seamen" (Edinburgh, 1827). Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on sheet 106 x 78 mm. (trimmed)

Date: 1815 - 1819

By: Lewin, John William, 1770-1819

Reference: A-237-042

Description: Shows full-face head and shoulders portrait of a Maori chief with moko, short curly hair, a turkey feather over his right ear, ear ornaments and a feather cloak. The chief's name was Te Uri Kanae Attribution based on the fact that an engraving was made of this work in 1824, and Lewin is acknowledged as artist ("Lewin del."). A copy of the engraving is held at A-092-002 According to Ellis' "Early prints of New Zealand" (Christchurch, 1978), A Hoodee O Gunna [Turi a Kuna] was a signatory to the first sale of land in New Zealand, to the Church Missionary Society in February 1815. Dating has been made on the basis of this. The subject is a chief of Rangihoua and nephew of Te Pahi. Lewin is said to have made his sketch of this subject in Sydney; there is no evidence for Lewin having visited New Zealand. Other Titles - Te Uri o Kanae Turi a Kuna Rangihoua Inscriptions: None. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 166 x 133 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by John Dixon Antiques, Park Street, Wellington and exhibited by them, 6 & 7 July 1964 at Wakefield House, 90 The Terrace, Antique Fair and Exhibition with the caption 'A young Maori chieftain from Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand' - watercolour by ... J. W. Lewin

Date: 1810 - 1890 - 1825 - 1910

By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-059-008

Description: The image of the tattooed head of Te Pahi with text below advertising its display (as a preserved head, or mokamokai) in England between 1810 and 1820. Additional text refers to 'Canabal Indians' and to 'Man eaters'. There are also references to the showing of 'regalia of a chief of New Zealand'. 'Admittance, one shilling' Illustration on reduced facsimile (22 mm) of broadside (original wood engraving and letterpress, with imprint: Seven Dials [London] ; Printed by R Johns, [181-?], advertising display of preserved head of Te Pahi, which was headed: "New Zealand. To be seen at", and completed in ms.: "Mr Harrison, hatter, Market Plans..." Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 101 x 76 mm

Date: 1810 - 1824 - 1815

By: Lewin, John William, 1770-1819; Griffith, M, active 1824; Strange, J S (Mr), active 1970

Reference: A-092-002

Description: Shows full face head and shoulders portrait of Maori man with feather cloak, turkey feather above left ear, and moko. A copy of this engraving, once thought to be the original for the engraving, is in the Rex Nan Kivell coll, National Library of Australia, Ref. NK2090. The original watercolour is much more likely to be that at A-237-042. (Much closer resemblance and image reversed). The ink copy in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection has an inscription, copying the title of the engraving, in the hand of Thomas Kendall. Probably shows refer to Turi-a-kuna (Tooree Oganna), nephew of Te Pahi. See Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. 8, page 211 (top of page), which incorrectly refers to him as a nephew of Te Pehi. Inscriptions: Verso - Spine-lettered "Sundry Pamphlets" offered for sale by Dick Reynolds, May 1970 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving (hand-col.) on sheet 234 x 134 mm

Date: 1835

Reference: Eph-C-MAORI-1835-01

Description: Notice in Russian script announcing a public exhibition of the Menagerie of Karl Berg and Stefan Eller from Hamburg, at the house of Princess Golitsyna on Tverskaya Street, Moscow, on Sunday 17 November 1835. The translation of the text includes in part the following words: Advertisement for no. 92 Moskovskie vedemosti 1835 year. This day, 17th of November, at 12pm, there will be a major feeding of a snake with live chickens and rabbits, and of a hyena with live pigeons.[Mr] Berg, having entered the hyena's cage, will feed this wild and vicious animal out of his own hands. Karl Berg and Stefan Eller, from Hamburg, will have the privilege of showing, to lovers of art and nature, a Menagerie of live snakes, monkeys, birds and crocodiles, and also a large collection of natural creations, presented in the following sections: First section (Amphibians), Second section (Quadrupeds), Third section (Birds), Fourth section (["other"]) 14) Tattooed and rubbed with colours, the head of Tipokhe, or chieftain of cannibals from New Zealand. Due to his brave enterprises, Tipokhe is named the King of New Zealand 15) Various weapons of the wild people of New Zealand Minerva (an uncommonly tall Prussian woman) Menagerie is open from 9 in the morning to 7 in the evening; the feeding of the animals take place: first at 12, and second at 6 in the evening. The menagerie is located on Tverskoi in the house of Princess Golitsina, near Tverskaia Pharmacy. Prices: one seat 2 rubles in notes; children up to 10 years old pay half. Herewith it is announced, that Berg and Eller, both buy and sell, at cheap prices, all rarities. A preserved head, also purported to be that of Te Pahi, had previously been displayed in London ca 1820; see poster advertising this at A-059-008. Its eventual fate is unknown, and it is unclear if it was the same head that is advertised in this 1835 poster. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on sheet 425 x 240 mm.

Date: [ca 1862-1865]

By: Swinley, John, 1949-

Reference: Eph-D-MAORI-1862-01

Description: Poster advertising the display of a giant ox named Bruno, at the inn "Grünen Wald" in Frankfurt on Main. The poster also advertises the display of an example of toi moko, the "Kopf des berühmten Häuptlings Tipache von Neuseeland" [head of the famous chief Te Pahi from New Zealand]. The poster states: "Der Aufenthalt dauert nur einige Tage. | Der Schauplatz ist Allerheiligengasse Nro. 26 im "Grünen Wald." | Noch nicht dagewesen! | Eine seltene Naturerscheinung. | Der größte bisher bekannte lebende | Schweizer | Riesen-Ochse, | Bruno genannt. | Die Größe und Schönheit dieses Thieres aus der Umgegend von Interlaken, im Canton Bern, ist eine Seltenheit. Dasselbe ist nur auf kurze Zeit hier zu sehen, und ist von den größten Kennern, Oekonomen, Fleischern u.s.w. als das größte, schönste und seltsamste Exemplar anerkannt worden. Dieser Ochse ist 6 Jahre alt, 6 Fuß 7 Zoll hoch, 10 Fuß lang und hat einen Umfang von 9 1/2 Fuß. Sein Gewicht ist 4030 Pfund. Die gerade Seite des Kopfes beträgt 30 Zoll, das dicke Muskelfleisch am Vorderbeine ist 30 Zoll in der Rundung und der trockne Knochen unten am Beine 12 Zoll in der Rundung, das Hinterbein 15 Zoll. | Seine Nahrung ist binnen 24 Stunden 1 1/2 Viertel Hafer, 3 Viertel Häcksel, 90 Pfd. Heu, 9 Eimer Wasser. Als beachtenswerth dürfte noch erwähnt werden, daß dieser Riese von einer kleinen Race stammt, die sich nicht im Geringsten durch Stärke noch Gewicht auszeichnete. Sein Geburtsort ist Interlaken, der schönste Ort in der Schweiz. Dieser Ochse ist schon in den größten Städten Deutschlands, so wie auch Rußlands und Frankreichs mit vielem Beifall gesehen worden. Das Thier ist sehr gutmüthig und fromm, und thut Alles, was sein Wärter ihm heißt. Wer die Gelegenheit benutzt, diesen Riesen-Ochsen zu sehen, wird sich von der Schönheit und dem guten Wuchse desselben überzeugen. Der Umfang gleicht dem eines Elephanten." The centre of the sheet features an engraved depiction of an ox and its minder. The poster includes a physical description of the ox with details on pedigree and its dietary requirements, making comparison with an elephant. Other details are the times when the ox may only be seen lying down, and the entrance fee for adults and children. Imprint: "Druck von Heller & Rohm in Frankfurt a. M." [Frankfurt am Main]. The name Henriette Chanteur, the person touring these exhibits, appears in the lower right corner. 'Unterwegs mit wilden Tieren', by Annelore Rieke-Müller and Lothar Dittrich, (Marburg an der Lahn: Basilisken-Presse, 1999), discusses the way a head purported to be that of Te Pahi did the rounds of European exhibitions from the 1820s to 1860s. A broadsheet advertising the 1820 display in London is in the Alexander Turnbull Library’s collection at A-059-008. We know of other occasions when it was displayed; in 1826 when Herman von Aken displayed it; then from 1826-1830 when John van Dinter put it on show. The Library has a broadsheet for another instance of its exhibition, in 1835 in Moscow (Eph-C-MAORI-1835-01). There exists in the Stadtarkiv Ulm a broadsheet for its display by Bernard Chanteur in 1845 (see accompanying photocopy showing the tattooed head of "Tipahe"). Bernard Chanteur died the following year, aged 40; his widow was Henriette Chanteur. Although some German sources have dated this poster at around 1865, it may be from 1862, as that is the last known date for a newspaper advertisement by Henriette Chanteur for the display of the ox; soon afterwards, in early 1862, she advertised the animal for sale. The date would be 1865 only if she did not succeed in selling the ox. Other title - A rare natural phenomenon, the largest known living Swiss giant ox, named Bruno Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and woodcut engraving on paper, 606 x 433 mm. Provenance: Poster was formerly part of the collection of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (1808-1888). It was subsequently bought by the dealer Antiquariat Turszynski in Munich, and sold to the donor, John Swinley of Waikanae.