Hei Taonga Ma Nga Uri Whakatipu by Billie Lythberg
Hei Taonga Ma Nga Uri Whakatipu

Hei Taonga Ma Nga Uri Whakatipu


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From 1919 to 1923, at Sir Apirana Ngata's initiative, a team from the Dominion Museum travelled to tribal areas across Te Ika-a-Maui The North Island to record tikanga Maori (ancestral practices) that Ngata feared might be disappearing. These ethnographic expeditions, the first in the world to be inspired and guided by indigenous leaders, used cutting-edge technologies that included cinematic film and wax cylinders to record fishing techniques, art forms (weaving, kowhaiwhai, kapa haka and moteatea), ancestral rituals, and everyday life in the communities they visited. The team visited the 1919 Hui Aroha in Gisborne, the 1920 welcome to the Prince of Wales in Rotorua, and communities along the Whanganui River (1921) and in Tairawhiti (1923). Medical doctor-soldier-ethnographer Te Rangihiroa (Sir Peter Buck), the expedition's photographer and film-maker James McDonald, the ethnologist Elsdon Best, and Turnbull Librarian Johannes Andersen recorded a wealth of material. This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of these expeditions, and the determination of early twentieth century Maori leaders, including Ngata, Te Rangihiroa, James Carroll, and those in the communities they vis
About the Author: James Schuster (Te Arawa) is a Maori Built Heritage Adviser (Traditional Arts) to Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga. Born and raised in Rotorua into a family that has maintained and practised Maori arts and crafts for generations, his traditional knowledge and skills have been passed down through his family. His great-great-grandfather was Tene Waitere, the renowned Ngati Tarawhai carver. Te Aroha McDonnell (Ngati Hau, Ngati Kurawhatia, Ngati Haua, Te Atihaunui-a-Paparangi, Ngati Maru, Ngati Maniapoto, Ngati Tuwharetoa) is a representative of Ngati Hau to Te Runanga o Tamaupoko and Te Runanga o Te Awa Tupua. John Niko Maihi MNZM (Ngati Pamoana Atihaunui a Paparangi) is the son of Aperaniko Maihi (Paeroke) and Te Kahui Gray. He actively supports his iwi and his community in his capacity as kaumatua and Pou Haahi Ringatu. A former member of the Whanganui River Maori Trust Board (1988-2017), he has held significant leadership roles in the settlement of the Whanganui River Claims. John is the current chair of Te Puna Matauranga o Whanganui Iwi Education Authority, convenes Te Pae Matua Roopu and Te Runanga o te Awa Tupua o Whanganui, and kaiwhakahaere of Te Runanga o Tupoho and kaumatua for the Whanga Billie Lythberg is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Economics at The University of Auckland, working at the junction of business studies, anthropology and history, with a strong focus on Aotearoa and the Pacific. She co-edited Artefacts of Encounter: Cook's Voyages, Colonial Collecting and Museum Histories (University of Otago Press, 2016) and Collecting in the South Sea: the Voyage of Bruni d'Entrecasteaux 1791-1794 (Sidestone Press, 2018), and co-created the Artefact documentary series exploring taonga Maori in collections worldwide (Maori Television, 2018 and 2020). Dame Anne Salmond ONZ DBE FRSNZ FBA is James McDonald's great-granddaughter and a Distinguished Professor of Maori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland, and a leading social scientist. She is the winner of the Rutherford Medal, New Zealand's top scientific prize, and many international fellowships and awards. She is the author of a series of prizewinning books about Maori life, European voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific, most recently Tears of Rangi (Auckland University Press, 2017). In 2021 she was granted the Order of New Zealand, the country's top award Te Wheturere Poope Gray (Ngati Kurawhatia ki Pipiriki), also known as Bobby Gray, is the grandson of Te Wheturere Robert Gray and Ngaraiti Tuatini, and son of Te Wheturere James Gray and Janet McFall. During his working years, from 1951 to the 2000s, Te Wheturere was a primary school teacher and headmaster at primary schools around the North Island. During his years in Tokoroa, Te Wheturere was part of the founding kaimahi responsible for building Papa o te Aroha Marae, and was also a respected kaumatua there once the marae was built. Now retired, he lives at his ancestral kainga, Raetiwha Rah Dr Amiria Salmond is James McDonald's great-great-grand-daughter and is an independent scholar and historian, who was earlier a lecturer in social anthropology and Senior Curator at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. She is writing a book on the history of the island of Ulbha (Ulva) in the Scottish Hebrides, which was cleared of the great bulk of its inhabitants in the mid-nineteenth century. Her publications include Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and she co-edited Thinking Through Things: Theorising Artefacts Eth Dr Wayne Ngata MNZM (Ngati Ira, Ngati Porou, Te Aitanga a Hauiti) is a board member of the Tertiary Education Commission, and board chair of Te Taumata Aronui. He is active in the revitalisation of te reo Maori, a specialist in Maori literature, a longtime advocate for Maori art, and an active supporter of the waka hourua renaissance. Conal M


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780995103108
  • Publisher: Te Papa Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919-1923
  • Width: 273 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0995103100
  • Publisher Date: 16 May 2022
  • Height: 222 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Weight: 1884 gr


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