Mahi Raranga
Ramarihi MacDougall, a Kaiatawhai Taonga – Collections Archivist at Ngā Taonga, describes her journey of mahi raranga (Māori weaving) and
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Ngā Taonga Kōrero
Can an audiovisual collection be a teacher of te reo Māori?
Ka tuhia e Ngā Taonga te reo Māori hei āwhina i ngā iwi ki te kimi taonga, me te mōhio
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International Year of Indigenous Languages
Ko 2019 Te Tau o Ngā Reo Taketake o Te Ao. He kohinga nui ā Ngā Taonga kei roto i
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Tūhonohono conference 2019
Tūhonohono – connecting to people and taonga Nā Gareth Seymour ēnei tuhinga. The 2019 Tūhonohono conference was on 28 and
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Te Matatini ki te Ao 2019
The biennial Te Matatini Kapa Haka competition is a huge event. Upwards of 50,000 people flowed through Westpac Stadium in
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Memories of summers past with Gregg’s Coffee
We’ve had a bit of a halcyon summer and its great to see another blue sparkler in Wellington today (despite
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‘We Wouldn’t be a People’: Kaumātuatanga and Tangata Whenua (1974)
University of Leeds PhD student Emily Kate Timms, visited Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision in Wellington to delve into stories about Māori elders. She reflects on some of the rich and powerful material she discovered, as well as the importance of the presence of “cinematographic kaumātua” in our film and television history.
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Ngā taringa hou – New ears for old voices
Wellington may have enjoyed an unusually-splendid summer this year, but three Victoria University Māori Studies students have not seen a lot of the sun. They spent their break from late November until late February in the Taranaki Street offices of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. With headphones fixed to their heads they passed the summer listening to the voices of tūpuna, recorded many decades before they were born.
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