Maori research by topic
NZ Card Index is another resource to coincide with whakapapa research.
You may request cards on anything from Whina Cooper to haka, Ngati Whatua, Auckland Museum, Lake Pupuke, elections, certain tupuna.
The following results are an example of the sort of information you will find on the NZ card index.
They are references to magazine and newspaper articles held at the library.
As an example, the following results were found on the cards under the subject ‘Hawaiki’:
Hawaiiki Nui
Maori history begins with the arrival of the first eastern Polynesian ancestral canoe.
Magazine ‘Tu Tangata’, Issue 32 Oct/Nov 1986, pg 44.
Te Kohinga Matua (2nd floor) serial 572.995 T88.
Hawaiikinui
Two totara logs felled in Aotearoa, transported to Tahiti, lashed to breadfruit trees, held together with coconut husk ropes and sails from pandanus leaves.
Magazine ‘Tu Tangata’, Issue April/May 1986, pg 14.
Te Kohinga Matua (2nd floor) serial 572.995 T88.
Hawaiiki Nui (Canoe)
Auckland Watersiders Union members have refused to load the canoe on to its Tahiti-bound ship Bounty 3 as it is a NZ-built canoe. It will remain on the wharf until the right of ownership is settled.
Newspaper ‘Star’ (Auckland Star), 31 January 1986, pg A3.
Auckland Research Centre (2nd floor) Microfilm.
Hawaiki Nui (Canoe)
NZ Party candidate Gray Phillips, upset that the French Polynesian govt. had called for the canoes immediate return to Tahiti, has offered carver Matahi Whakataka Brightwell $250,000 to build another canoe for NZ.
Newspaper ‘Star’ (Auckland Star), 9 January 1986, pg A1.
Auckland Research Centre (2nd floor) Microfilm.
Hawaiki Nui
The voyaging canoe Hawaiki Nui has stopped at Whakatane on its way to Auckland from Hicks Bay, near East Cape. Illus.
Newspaper ‘New Zealand Herald’, 4 January 1986, pg 2 Section 1.
Auckland Research Centre (2nd floor) Microfilm.
Hawaiki-Nui (Canoe)
Canoe to be sailed from Hawaii to NZ as re-enactment of Maori migration.
Newspaper ‘New Zealand Herald’, 24 February 1981, pg 16 Section 1.
Auckland Research Centre (2nd floor) Microfilm.
Hawaiki
Study of the kiore may provide a clue to the whereabouts of Hawaiki.
Magazine ‘Listener’, 5 September 1992, pg 28, 30.
Auckland Research Centre Heritage Serial (2nd floor) 052 L77.
Hawaiikinui
Landing at Okahu Bay on 6/1/1986.
Newspaper ‘New Zealand Herald’, 7 January 1986, pg 4 Section 1.
Auckland Research Centre (2nd floor) Microfilm.
Hawaiki Nui Canoe
Arrival of voyaging canoe from Tahiti.
Auckland Scrapbook, November 1985 pg 69, 87.
Heritage Serial -2nd floor 995.7203 A8.
Hawaiki Nui Canoe.
Background details in an article on Matahi Whahataha Brightwell.
Incorrect dates (apparently) - 1985-6.
Newspaper ‘New Zealand Herald’, 14 August 1989, pg 3 Section 1.
Auckland Research Centre (2nd floor) Microfilm.
Hawaiki St, Orakei
Named after homeland of migrating Polynesians.
Magazine ‘Eastern Courier’, 28 February 1990, pg 4.
Auckland Research Centre Heritage Serial (2nd floor) 072 E13.
