Arapata Hakiwai

Huhana Smith

Examines the spiritual and cultural connections in Māori material culture through objects in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Ancestral Māori Treasures

Toi Ora

Anne Salmond

Monty Soutar

Conal McCarthy

James Schuster

Billie Lythberg

Te Aroha McDonnell

John Niko Maihi

Wayne Ngata

Amiria Salmond

Te Wheturere Poope Gray

Natalie Robertson

Sandra Kahu Nepia

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

Treasures for the Rising Generation: the Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919-1923

Hei Taonga Mā Ngā Uri Whakatipu

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