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Title:
Angas, George French, 1822-1886 :Domestic sketches. George French Angas [delt]; J. W. Giles [lith]. Plate 59, 1847.
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Abstract:
A group of scenes inside a pa with explanatory text on the opposite page, paraphrased as follows: 1.[Top centre] A sketch a Kaitote on the Waikato showing a cooking house with a couple of elderly women, seated on the ground outside, performing the hongi. 2. [Top left] An aged woman of Te Mutu making a basket of the leaves of the tawara (Freycinetia Banksii). 3. [Top right] A slave woman preparing potatoes by scraping them with a mussel shell. 4. [Centre] Interior of a house at Rangihaeata's pa at Porirua, with women engaged in manufacturing flax garments. 5. [Bottom left] Tangi or crying of welcome; also Hongi detail on the right. Both sketches from life, were made near Taupiri, on the Waikato River. |
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Geographic Location:
Plimmerton, Taupiri |
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Title:
Angas, George French, 1822-1886 :Evening scene. Encampment at Maurea on the banks of the Waikato. / George French Angas del. Pubd by Smith, Elder & Co., London. Day & Haghe, lithrs to the Queen. 1847.
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Abstract:
Groups of Maori seated in a pa by the Waikato River, with a pataka to the right, a small whare, several fences and a tent to the right, with a European standing outside it. A kete and two pigs in the foreground, two dogs to the right, utensils, clothing, oars and weapons draped over a palisade. |
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Geographic Location:
Waikato River, Maurea |
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Title:
[Ashworth, Edward] 1814-1896 :Native built church (wharay karakia) at Te Whatawat on the Waipa River New Zealand. [1843]
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Abstract:
The interior of a Maori church, with tukutuku panels between the upright beams in the walls and two central beams supporting the ridge-pole. Ten Maori are seated inside. Along the top, the artist has written the Maori for various building terms: roof tuanui, beam kanae, rafters keke, door tatau, lath ehako, posts wapu. He also adds 'The beams, posts, rafters etc are not squared but very neatly adzed'. |
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Geographic Location:
Whatawhata |
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Title:
Atiamuri Lodge and rock, Atiamuri
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Abstract:
View of fishing lodge at Atiamuri with rock in the background, photographed, by Robert E Wells,in the late 1940s. |
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Geographic Location:
Atiamuri |
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Title:
At Te Makia; a day's fun at the beach
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Abstract:
At Te Maika; a day's fun at the beach. Boy Scouts engaged in various activities during a visit to the beach. Photographed by an unknown photographer about 1933, Top left photograph (PA1-o-116-82-1). Group of boys crouching in shallow pools hollowed out of the sand. On album page below print is written "Hot springs", Top right photograph (PA1-o-116-82-2). Group of boys hunting for cockles in the sand. On album page below print is written "Cockles", Centre photograph (PA1-o-116-82-3). Two Boy Scouts standing on bridges they have constructed over a small creek or water race. On album page below print is written "Bridges" , Bottom left photograph (PA1-o-116-82-4). Three boys swimming in the surf. On album page below print is written "Surfing", Bottom right photograph (PA1-o-116-82-5). Three Boy Scouts sitting with a collection of objects arranged on a board. On album page below print is written "The museum" |
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Geographic Location:
Te Maika |
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Title:
`Auckland Star' Service Car, Waikato
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Abstract:
View of a group of men seated inside the H C Baulf `Auckland Star' Service Car, a Dodge automobile, stopped on the muddy road between Frankton and Te Aroha in the Waikato. Photograph taken between circa 1924 and 1925 (the time when the number plate NZ20-113 was active), by an unidentified photographer. |
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Geographic Location:
Frankton |
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