196 x 145 mm. A view showing Queen Street in the foreground with the city and harbour beyond.

196 x 144 mm. A view showing 8 Fijian men and women bathing in a river.

139 x 192 mm. A full length portrait of a Samoan girl, wearing a mat skirt and standing in front of a palm thatch house.

137 x 188 mm. A view from a hillside with a man and a woman in the foreground, looking down towards the Sound on which a steam ship can be seen.

187 x 136 mm. A view looking across the Sound towards a waterfall, wooded hills and mountains on the far side.

197 x 146 mm. A view showing the front of the post office in Grahamstown, with passers-by and a horse and carriage posed for the camera in front of the building. The settlement in the Thames district was founded at the start of the gold discoveries in the North Island in the early 1860s.

196 x 144 mm. A view showing a row of Tongan women performing a ceremonial dance.

187 x 148 mm. A view showing the terrace formations filled with water which drops down from the geyser above.

191 x 140 mm. A view showing the small settlement of Kinloch on the lakeside, with the Humboldt Range rising in the background. The range, which lies north west of Queenstown, stretches northward along the shores of the lake and beyond.

198 x 148 mm. A view of the countryside in the Hutt area north of Wellington, showing fields interspersed with palm trees.

201 x 151 mm. A view showing the priest, or ‘Tohunga’ (a word basically meaning an expert, of which there are several classes), standing in front of the decorated inner wall of the meeting house. The rafters are painted in a typical Maori motif (probably in red, black and white), while the walls are constructed of lattice ‘tukutuku’ panels forming a geometric decoration.

194 x 142 mm. A view looking across fields towards the centre of the town. Invercargill, situated on the banks of the Waihopai River, is the southernmost city in New Zealand, first settled by James Kelly and his wife in 1855.

206 x 144 mm. A view looking out onto a small bay surrounded by woodland in the centre of which is a small island. Stewart Island is the most southerly part of New Zealand, separated from the south coast of the South Island by Foveaux Strait.

205 x 145 mm. A view looking down from a small settlement and across, with mountains in the distance. In the foreground stand a few farm buildings and some cleared land.

198 x 138 mm. A view looking along the river, with woods running down to the water’s edge. The Makarewa lies just north of Invercargill at the southernmost tip of the South Island.

194 x 148 mm. A view along a fiord, with mountain ranges in the distance.

152 x 197 mm. A photograph composed of a montage of Maori portraits, interspersed with landscape studies and photographs of Maori houses. The caption reads ‘Maori Land. The Maori portraits are originals-taken from life. Burton Brothers, photographers, Number forty-one Princes Street’.

190 x 140 mm. A view looking along a river in the Milford Sound area, with trees on either side and mountains in the distance.

180 x 143 mm. A view looking across the Sound, with mountains rising steeply from the far shore (though here almost faded into invisibility).

180 x 143 mm. A view looking across Milford Sound towards Mitre Peak which rises from the water’s edge on the far shore.

190 x 138 mm. A view looking across the lake, with hills and mountains rising on either side. The stillness of the water has allowed the photographer to capture a perfect reflection of the scene in the lake.

185 x 144 mm. A view looking along the river which runs through the bottom of the gorge, with dense woodland on either side.

184 x 146 mm. A view looking along a valley at the foot of the mountain, showing part of Mount Cook at the left and part of another peak at the right.

147 x 183 mm. A view looking between trees towards the distant mountain, of which little can be seen due to fading.

193 x 138 mm. A view looking between two mountains towards Mt. Cook in the distance. All detail has been lost from Mt. Cook and it is scarcely distinguishable against the sky.