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Tuhinga tawhito

 Subject
Subject Source: Reo
Scope Note: Unpublished, books, documents, etc, often written by hand, and not intended for wide circulation in that form. This heading can be used for examples of manuscripts or for works about manuscripts.

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

Pita Kapiti manuscript.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS Archives-Maori 89/2
Scope and Contents

Manuscript written by Pita Kapiti, concerning bird snaring, Pikea, Maia, Takitimu, Horouta and kumara planting.

Dates: 19th century

Tainui History and Whakapapa

 Collection
Identifier: MSS Archives-Maori 94/7
Scope and Contents

Notes of J C Adams. Histories and whakapapa as told to him by various people

Dates: c. 1977

Tamatea Pokai Whenua

 Item
Identifier: MSS Archives-Maori 94/3
Scope and Contents

Tamatea Pokai Whenua whakapapa - handwritten.

Dates: n.d.

Taranaki Poutu papers on Ngapuhi whakapapa and tribal history.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS Archives-Maori 88/5
Scope and Contents

Manuscript books of Ngapuhi Whakapapa and tribal history, written by Taranaki Poutu, possibly ca 1940.

Dates: ca. 1940 - 1981

Te Aniwa Hona papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-2022/05
Scope and Contents

Research papers re Māori land, culture, and taonga. Includes submissions, newspaper clippings and research material compiled by Jane McRae re Maori manuscripts held in the United Kingdom.

Dates: 1960s - 1990s

Te Kooti notebook.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-C-35
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains waiata composed by Te Kooti. It is thought that the waiata were transcribed by one of Te Kooti's secretaries, probably Hamiora Aparoa.

Dates: 1866 - 1890

Te Rangituatahi Te Kanawa manuscript collection.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-C-15
Scope and Contents There are 8 volumes of manuscripts in the collection: vol.1: A Maori genealogy of Maori tribes; vol.2: Maori genealogy of Ngati-Maniapoto and Waikato tribes, written by Te Atanatiu, in 2 parts. This book belonged to a Pakeha known to the Maoris as Te Atanatiu (Mr Athanasius). vol.3: a historical record of the King Country, Waikato district, late 19th century, written by Tuheka Hetet; vol.4a and vol.4b: Maori genealogy and family book of the Hetet family, Waikato district; vol.5: Maori...
Dates: 1880?-1930?

Te Ua Haumene manuscript.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-C-33
Scope and Contents

The gospel (Na Rongo Pai) according to Te Ua Haumene, with corrections to the Maori manuscript by Sir George Grey. Ua Rongo Pai sets out the organisation and ethical teaching of the Hauhau Church.

Dates: 1863?

The Romance of the Upper Thames Valley / [by Cecil Thomas Harris].

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-21
Scope and Contents

Collection comprises an unpublished typescript of The romance of the Upper Thames Valley : a study in New Zealand colonisation by Cecil Thomas Harris.

Dates: 1935

The Tihoi land purchase.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-278
Scope and Contents Photocopied typescript with handwritten annotations. The following description of the typescript is taken from correspondence between the author, lawyer N.D. Ferguson and Professor Keith Sorrenson of the Department of History at the time that the item was donated to the Library.The account is in two parts, the first starts in 1919 with the first approach to the [Maori] owners by the crown and ends in 1951 when the crown having obtained by purchase about 95%...
Dates: 1972