Maori and Pacific manuscript archive collection

This series consists of both archival items gifted to the Museum and material that was gathered from internal Museum sources relating to Pacific and Māori themes. 

Some of the material contained here certainly should be more appropriately arranged in other series but given the likely difficulty in establishing provenance the existing arrangement has been retained.

Files in this series are:

• George Whiu Matarawa - Maori calendar
• Te Atiawa Heke South from Wi Taka
• New Zealand Ornamentation - unidentified author, text untranslated
• List of Maori baptised at Mataikora by Colenso in April 1852; 1852
• Notes on Maori literature, Reverend James W Stack (unpublished work); circa 1870
• Elsdon Best Maori Weapons - unpublished, handwritten manuscript
• Maori Weapons (author of work not clearly identified, it may well be Elsdon Best)
• Letter to Elsdon Best from HT Whatahoro regarding agricultural implements and wanting some money (letter untranslated); 1914
• Ledger of Ngai Tahu land claims, together with respective whakapapa; 1945
• Maori Section NZ Exhibition 1907; 1906 - 1907
• List of Canoes of migration - Augustus Hamilton author, Maori Art publication, original manuscript; 1896
• Appendix, Jock McEwan (additional notes relating to carving)
• Mr Kiere Kere, Maori manuscript (untranslated and fragile) - Owen Mapp, Design Department (WNTUI, NZBC); circa 1911 - 1918
• Notes from Taumaru-nui T.W. Downes; circa 1920
• Details of Names of Canoe parts (Augustus Hamilton); circa 1894
• The Pride of The Ngati Kahungunu by John Mills; 1931
• Captain Briggs notes on Te Hau ki Turanga, Turanga (NS 68/1391) - original and copy; 1868
• Notes and plan relating to Nightingale Island etc; 1807
• On the diseases of the Maori - unknown author
• TFH Wholera - The Mythology and tradition of the Maori in New Zealand, Maori text; circa 1876
• Ka Nonanona (Hawaiian newspaper); 1835 - 1844
• Shell Breaking Implements of the Maori (VF Knapp), unpublished work; circa 1910 - 1920
• HM Christie 'Flints from Miramar'; 1905
• Pouorangi School of Maori Culture Raru-nui-a-toi Course; 10.1947
• Letter from S Terei M Taunga, Ngatangiia, Raratonga; 1898
• Letter to Elsdon Best from K Terawhiti re spade made by Hone Pera (Museum of New Zealand collection number ME003687); 1917
• Current account for ship 'Lord Wm Bentinck' and papers; 1853 - 1854
• Letter to WJ Phillips from Te Puea Herangi (letter untranslated); 05.1946
• Historical Notes on some famous Maoru canoes of the Hauraki Tribes, author unidentified; 04.1905
• Nguru in Auckland Museum, P Buick (document); circa 1923
• WHS Roberts - Maori Place names, volumes 1 and 2; circa 1890
• Large carved storehouse in Auckland Museum, Augustus Hamilton; circa 1911
• Unsigned letter to the Governor General from Cook Islands (translated and untranslated copies); 1880
• History of the Maori Pa near Whakatane, Mueller (Lands and Survey Office, Auckland); 1895
• John McGregor - Popular Maori Songs - A Field (unpublished page proof), supplement number 5; 1893
• Augustus Hamilton notes for first draft of Maori Art; circa 1894
• Letter from Pokowhatu Kararehe to W Gordon about Maketu affecting his children (translated and untranslated copies); 1888
• Transcript of Timi Waatu Rimini, story of Te Tahu o te rangi (Fine Arts number 2261)
• Letter by Huraen Puketapu to Elsdon Best re Pa Maori (letter untranslated); 1915
• Letters introducing Doctor Hector from Makarini (translated and untranslated copies); 1867
• Essay on the Maori Race, Ed Shortland (a fragmentary sketch); circa 1870
• Description of two lithographic plates (Augustus Hamilton) in New Zealand waters, French exploration expedition D'Urville
• Notes for a paper on the Decorative Arts of the Maori (by James McDonald) and The Maori of New Zealand (by Augustus Hamilton, with annotations by Elsdon Best); circa 1930
• Samoan names of molluscs (from RW Tate diary)
• Notes on Tai-nui genealogy, correspondence with Elsdon Best (1917), letters from Whatahoro and
• Whahanui and ko from Hakaraia Pahewa of Te Kaha (1917); 1917 - 1918