Hei Taonga mā ngā Uri Whakatipu | Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919–1923 Clutch

Hei Taonga mā ngā Uri Whakatipu | Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919–1923 ClutchFrom 1919 to 1923, at Sir Apirana Ngatas initiative, a team from the Dominion Museum travelled to tribal areas across Te Ika a Mui The North Island to record tikanga Mori (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

Format: Flexibind with jacket

A knowledge of art

novelist and biographer Vincent O’Sullivan to write his life story in 2005

and bird-plant mutualisms focused on pollination in the genus Aloe

The recipient was usually required to travel overseas

Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War is one of Te Papa’s most popular visitor experiences

Rock Pools: A Guide for Kiwi Kids

featuring Merimeri Penfold's translation

Also at this time he began to include painted words in his work as a ‘way in’ to his images

As collection manager of molluscs

Some of her most popular paintings have been reproduced as high quality Limited Edition Prints which are now available through the Te Papa Store

From the series: Extinct Birds of New Zealand by Alan Tennyson