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Hoani Te Whatahoro papers.
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-C-8
Scope and Contents note
In the nineteenth century, customary Maori knowledge that had previously been transmitted orally in whare wananga began to be recorded on paper. H. T. Whatahoro, also known as Hoani Te Whatahoro Jury, of Ngati Kahungunu and European descent, was one of several who wrote down significant amounts of this oral tradition and history between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by acting as scribes for tohunga. Copies were made of the writings to ensure preservation and, not...
Dates:
1860s-1910
Whenua Manihera manuscript book.
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-C-27
Scope and Contents
Whenua Manihera manuscript book, containing tribal genealogies of Ngati Kahungunu origin. Irregular paging is due to the loss of leaves from the book before it was used as a manuscript book.
Dates:
n.d.
William Fox journal of an expedition to Wiararapa [i.e. Wairarapa].
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-242
Scope and Contents
Copy of William Fox's Journal of an Expedition to Wiararapa (sic).William Fox, later Sir William, arrived in Wellington in 1842, and in the autumn of the following year, as an agent of the New Zealand Company, went inland from the Hutt River looking for land suitable for settlement. He had three companions, Charles Clifford, William Vavasour and a Mr Whitehead. The journey was difficult but all were impressed with the potentiality of the Wairarapa...
Dates:
1843
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