A landmark book about four remarkable museum expeditions that contributed to a recovery of Maori society.
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 visited, to pass on ancestral tikanga 'hei taonga mo nga uri whakatipu' as treasures for a rising generation.
Recenzijas
a volume that is as much a treasure as the taonga it records. Kete Books 2021
Papildus informācija
A major book examining a fundamental moment in the development of Aotearoa New Zealand Exemplary author team Lively, accessible texts Assists a greater understanding of our history Richly illustrated A treasure for future generations
Hei Wahi Ake | Wayne Ngata Page 8
Mihi | Arapata Hakiwai Page 10
Introduction | Anne Salmond, Conal McCarthy, Amiria Salmon Page 12
Chapter 1: Kia Ora Te Hui Aroha | Monty Soutar Page 76
Chapter 2: E Tama! E Te Ariki! Haere Mai! | Anne Salmond, James Schuster,
Billie Lythberg Page 116
A Pouhaki for the Prince | James Schuster Page 146
Chapter 3: Toia Mai! Te Taonga! | Anne Salmond Page 154
Like He's Sitting Here and Talking | John Niko Maihi Page 188
My Tupuna are revealing themselves | Sandra Kahu Nepia Page 192
Where There Was an Astronomer There's a Pohutukawa | Te Wheturere Poope Gray
Page 194
The Knowledge Inside the Words | Te Aroha McDonnell Page 196
Chapter 4: Oh Machine, Speak On, Speak On | Anne Salmond, Billie Lythberg
Page 200
Chapter 5: The Eye of the Film | Natalie Robertson Page 218
Chapter 6: Alive with Rhythmic Force | Anne Salmond, Billie Lythberg, Conal
McCarthy Page 278
Appendices Page 304
Reconnecting Taonga | Billie Lythberg
The Terminology of Whakapapa | Apirana Ngata, Wayne Ngata
Relationship Terms | Apirana Ngata
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Image Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Index
Dr Wayne Ngata (Ngati Ira, Ngati Porou, Te Aitanga a Hauiti) is a Board member of Te Kura a-Iwi o Mangatuna and the Tertiary Education Commission, and Board Chair of Te Taumata Aronui. He is active in the revitalisation of te reo Maori, and is also a specialist in Maori literature and long-time advocate for Maori art.
Dame Anne Salmond ONZ DBE FRSNZ is a Distinguished Professor of Maori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland, and a leading social scientist. She has written a series of prize-winning books about Maori life, European voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific, most recently Tears of Rangi (2017) from Auckland University Press.
Natalie Robertson (Ngati Porou, Clann Dhonnchaidh) is a photographic and moving image artist and Senior Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology. She has exhibited extensively in public institutions throughout New Zealand and internationally, and her photography was published in the award-winning A Whakapapa of Tradition: One Hundred Years of Ngati Porou Carving, 1830-1930 (2016), Auckland University Press.
Amiria Salmond is a social anthropologist affiliated to both the University of Auckland and Cambridge University. She is a consultant / researcher on the five-year ERC-funded project Pacific Presences, studying German museum collections of Oceanic material, as well as relations between German anthropologists and those in the UK and the Pacific during the first half of the twentieth century. This work involves collaboration with present-day Maori and Pacific Island groups who have strong interests in collections from their homelands that are now in European museums.
Monty Soutar ONZM (Ngati Porou, Ngati Awa, Ngai Tai ki Tamaki, Ngati Kahungunu) is an award winning historian. He has published two major research and publication projects; Nga Tama Toa: Price of Citizenship: C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945 and Whiti! Whiti! Whiti! E! Maori in the First World War. He has also made a significant contribution as a member of the Waitangi Tribunal and in the development of the Te Tai Whakaea: Treaty Settlement Stories Project at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. He was awarded the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer's Fellowship in 2021. Billie Lythberg is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland. She works at the junction of business studies, anthropology and history, with a strong focus on Aotearoa and the Pacific. Her work often explores innovation and sustainability in creative and cultural industries.
James Schuster (Te Arawa) is a Maori Built Heritage Adviser (Traditional Arts) to the NZ Historic Places Trust 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.
Conal McCarthy is the programme director in the School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. He has published widely on the historical and contemporary Maori engagement with museums, including Exhibiting Maori: A history of colonial cultures of display (2007), Museums and Maori: Heritage professionals, indigenous collections, current practice (2011) and Museum practice: The contemporary museum at work (2015) in the series International Handbook of Museum Studies.
