© A.A Ryan / Hinemihi Collection

Hinemihi at Te Wairoa a few days after the volcanic eruption of Mt. Tarawera.

© Alan Gallop / Hinemihi Collection

Robert Rika (left) and Colin Tihi, at work on Hinemihi’s new carvings in Tene Waitere’s original workplace in Rotorua in May 1995.

© A.A Ryan / Hinemihi Collection

An island in a lunar landscape – Hinemihi at Te Wairoa a few days after the volcanic eruption of Mt. Tarawera

© Josiah Martin / Hinemihi Collection

Te Wairoa in 1885

© Alfred Burton / Hinemihi Collection

Chief Aporo and his wife Ngareta outside their newly opened meeting house at Te Wairoa in the early 1880s

© Charles Pullman / Hinemihi Collection

Children from the Lake Tarawera Native School shortly after Hinemihi’s opening in 1881.

© Charles Pullman / Hinemihi Collection

Te Wairoa’s female Maori tourist guides Sophia Hineragi (left), Kate Middlemass (centre) and Ngareta, wife of Chief Aporo.

© James McDonald / Hinemihi Collection

Tene Waitere with one of his carvings.

© Alfred Burton / Hinemihi Collection

Chief Aporo (wearing cloak and feathers and holding a traditional kotiate - short club – weapon) stands with a gathering of local people from Te Wairoa.

© Alfred Burton / Hinemihi Collection

The interior of Hinemihi in 1885, showing one of the meeting house’s interior carvings, the carved centre pole featuring Kataore the taniwha climbing downwards, woven lattice tukutuko panels and painted rafters.  Hinemihi’s interior at Clandon Park today looks almost exactly the same nearly 130 years later.

© Unknown / Hinemihi Collection

William Hillier, fourth Earl of Onslow, photographed at Government House, Wellington, after taking up his appointment as the country’s youngest Governor in May 1889.  

© Unknown / Hinemihi Collection

Performers from the Maori Arts & Crafts Institute, Rotorua, New Zealand – now re-named Te Puia – visited Clandon Park in 1986, including Emily Schuster (back row, first left) from Ngati Hinemihi.