Joel Samuel Polack
1807–1882
(Person)
Trader, land speculator, writer, artist.
Mentioned in
- An Introduction to Polynesian Anthropology
- Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
- Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Three: ‘The Early Poets’
- Letters and Art in New Zealand
- Maori Deeds of Old Private Land Purchases in New Zealand, From the Year 1815 to 1840, with Pre-Emptive and Other Claims
- Deeds—No. 82
- Deeds—No. 96
- Deeds—No. 124
- Deeds—No. 135
- Deeds—No. 214
- Paramata No. 1 Block, Kororareka, Bay of Islands District
- Kororareka Beach (South End), Bay of Islands District
- Waitangi Block (J. S. Polack), Bay of Islands District
- Supplementary Deed
- Translation
- Return of Land Claims Finally Settled Since 8th July, 1862
- Moko; or Maori Tattooing
- Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook
- The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori, Genuine and Empirical
- The Early Journals of Henry Williams
- The Exploration of New Zealand
- The History of the Jews in New Zealand
- The Maori Race
- The Moa-Hunters of New Zealand: Sportsman of the Stone Age
- Tuatara: Volume 22, Issue 3, February 1977
- Tuatara: Volume 9, Issue 2, November 1961
- ‘A Curious Document’: Ta Moko as Evidence of Pre-European Textual Culture in New Zealand
Cited in
- A year among the Maoris: study of their arts and customs
- Robley: Te Ropere, 1840—1930
- The Early Journals of Henry Williams
- The Maori - Volume II
- Tuatara: Volume 22, Issue 3, February 1977
Image Gallery
.jpg "A drawing by Joel Samuel Polack of Kororareka in 1836. Polack's substantial trading store is the building in the foreground")
.jpg "Fig. 47.—Tattooing instruments. (After Polack.)")
.jpg "The title page of J. S. Polack's Manners and Customs of the New Zealanders, published in 1838. This book, and others he wrote on New Zealand, stamped Polack as a versatile scholar and knowledgeable writer and artist")
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- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.