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22-Oct-25 - 11:11 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Soon May the Wellerman Come
Subject: RE: Origin: Soon May the Wellerman Come
The Conrad Frieboe sketches in detail…

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Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Jacky Guard catches whales from off shore. ca 1959-1960]
Date: 1959 - 1960
From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]
Reference: A-407-009
Description: Illustration shows sealer Jacky Guard, having climbed a cliff at Tory Channel, seeing two right or baleen whales near the shore below him. The illustration was made in preparation for "Whaling in early New Zealand", Reed Publishing Ltd, 1960. Supplied title is taken from that of the corresponding image in the book "Whaling in early New Zealand". Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on card, 378 x 270 mm.

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Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[A day at Jacky Guard's whaling station. ca 1959-1960]
Date: 1959 - 1960
From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]
Reference: A-407-010
Description: Illustration shows a large whale in the foreground, lying on its side after having been caught by whalers in a dinghy. In the background is Jacky Guard's whaling station at Te Awaiti.
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Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[The first callers at New Zealand. ca 1959-1960]
Date: 1959 - 1960
From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]
Reference: A-407-008
Description: Illustration shows a group of whalers standing on the shore at the Bay of Islands, with Maori helping to land the dinghies.
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Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Whaling in Tory Channel today. ca 1959-1960]
Date: 1959 - 1960
From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]
Reference: A-407-017
Description: Illustration shows a speedboat in the foreground, with a man standing by a mounted harpoon in its prow. In the left distance is a similar baot, and two whales swimming in the water.
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Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Whalers in the Pacific. ca 1959-1960]
Date: 1959 - 1960
From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]
Reference: A-407-003
Description: Illustration shows seven men in a rowboat; one is throwing a harpoon towards a sperm whale.
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Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Why whales are hunted. ca 1959-1960]
Date: 1959 - 1960
From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]
Reference: A-407-005
Description: Illustration shows the silhouette of a whale, flanked by products using parts of the whale: margarine, whale meat, perfume, fertiliser, lubricant, whalebone brushes, soap and processed food for livestock.
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Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Modern whaling. ca 1959-1960]
Date: 1959 - 1960
From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]
Reference: A-407-016
Description: Illustration shows a whaling ship in the foreground, steaming towards other ships in the distance. The foreground ship is towing three inflated whale carcasses on each side of it, in the water.
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Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Life on a whaler. ca 1959-1960]
Date: 1959 - 1960
From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]
Reference: A-407-007
Description: Illustration shows the occupants of a rowing boat in the foreground, being lashed by the tail of a whale they have harpooned. In the distance is their sailing ship, with a second rowing boat approaching from it.
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9 Image
Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[The whaler at home. ca 1959-1960]
Date: 1959 - 1960
From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]
Reference: A-407-013
Description: Illustration shows a whaler seated at a wooden table in his home, while his Maori wife and children, and two older Maori are engaged in domestic activities. A boy helps the whaler wind or tie rope, while the wife and her daughter are engaged in food preparation beside a fire.
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Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Catching and rendering down at sea. ca 1959-1960]
Date: 1959 - 1960
From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]
Reference: A-407-006
Description: Illustration shows whalers on the deck of a whaling ship, handling whale carcasses and pouring melted whale oil into moulds.
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Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[The harpoon gun. ca 1959-1960]
Date: 1959 - 1960
From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]
Reference: A-407-015
Description: Illustration shows a whaler standing on deck, aiming a harpoon on its stand, towards to sea. At the top of the page are three different items: a older-style harpoon with a barbed tip, a hand-held harpoon gun, and a harpoon that is fired from it (with an explosive tip).
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12 Image
Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Different kinds of whales. ca 1959-1960]
Date: 1959 - 1960
From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]
Reference: A-407-004
Description: Illustration shows scale drawings of five different whale species: blue whale, fin whale, right whale, sperm whale and humpback whale. At the right are a lance and a blubber spade.
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Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[The value of their catches. ca 1959-1960]
Date: 1959 - 1960
From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]
Reference: A-407-014
Description: Illustration shows the deck of an American whaling ship, with whalers using blubber spades to cut blubber from a whale carcass.
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Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[More about the shore whalers. ca 1959-1960]
Date: 1959 - 1960
From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]
Reference: A-407-012
Description: Illustration shows a whaler using a blubber spade to cut into the carcass of a whale, at a shore whaling station. In the background a man is preparing a pulley for use to lift whale blubber or carcasses. At the right, others melt down the blubber in a tripot.
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Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :Early shore whalers and Maori
Date: [ca 1959-1960]
From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]
Reference: A-407-011
Description: Illustration shows a whaler and two Maori men doing farming work at a shore whaling station, while a group of wahine are seated further away near a cottage. One tane is digging with a ko (wooden foot hoe), while the whaler in the foreground is about to cut grasses with a long-bladed knife. The illustration was made in preparation for 'Whaling in early New Zealand', Reed Publishing Ltd, 1960. Title supplied by Library. Original title was taken from the corresponding image in the book "Whaling in early New Zealand". Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on card, 378 x 270 mm. Processing information: Description updated in December 2024 as part of reparative description work. Previous title" Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Early shore whalers and the Maoris. ca 1959-1960]

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