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[Tokanganui-a-noho, Aotea Harbour]

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  • Description

    Meeting House, Te Tokanganui-a-noho

  • Other Id

    14556 (Presto content ID)

    PH-ALB-50 (Reference Number)

    PH-CNEG-C29056 (Copy negative number)

    PH-CNEG-B8249 (Copy negative number)

    65605 (DBTextworks system ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

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Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    [Tokanganui-a-noho, Aotea Harbour]
  • Primary Maker

     R H Bartlett (Photographer)

  • Physical Description

    248 mm. x 290 mm.

  • Level of Current Record
    Child
  • Is Part Of
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  • Subject Category
  • Public Access Text

    The meeting house Te Tokanganui-a-noho originally stood at Motakotako, Aotea Harbour, and was built and carved by Te Whanake for the Ngati Te Wehi tribe. The house was removed to Kawhia where it was burnt down about 1890. The people in the picture are from left to right: Te Aua Tauwhenua a Ngati Te Wehi Chief; Te Reme Tauira, who married John Ellis, a trader at Motakotako; Te Whareroa, chief of the Ngati Te Wehi; Te Pahi.

    Please see letter to the Native Minister from Mr. Robert Bush of Raglan in the AJHR 1874, Section G. - 2B (Native Affairs) page 6, Enclosure No. 8 for further information about the opening celebrations of this meeting house. PG.

    House described in Carved Maori Houses of Western and Northern Areas, by W.J. Phillips 1955 Dominion Museum monograph no9 pp216-217

    Page No : 13

  • Subject Notes
    Robert Henry Bartlett was based in Queen Street, Auckland and was operating as Bartlett and Taylor in 1865, and Bartlett and Co in 1866/7. His first bankruptcy was on 30 May 1870. Later that same year he accompanied Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh, on a trip to the Pink and White Terraces, displaying images from the trip in his Queen Street studio. He presented Prince Alfred with a set of 36 views of New Zealand, and was rewarded with the title "Photographer to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh" in January 1871. He exhibited at the 1880 Sydney Exhibition, and in February 1881 he received an award for his NZ views and portraits at the Melbourne exhibition. His second bankruptcy was June 1888. He died at the Rookwood Asylum in Sydney on 2 June 1911.
    http://0-www.aucklandcity.govt.nz.www.elgar.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/photographers/basic_search.htm
  • Copyright
    Cultural permissions apply
  • Last Update
    26 Sep 2023

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