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Te Kohinga Taonga Māori

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Kua karangahia ngā taonga e pā ana ki te ao Māori, te iwi Māori hoki kei Ngā Taonga e puritia ana, ko 'Te Kohinga Taonga Māori.'
Nō Aotearoa whānui ngā kiriata me ngā hopunga o te kohinga nei, kei te pā hoki ki ngā kaupapa e hia, otirā he karanga, he whaikōrero, he kōrero tuku iho nā ngā iwi me ngā hapū, he pōwhiri, he wharenui, he marae, he kapa haka, ko ngā āhuatanga o te rā o Waitangi (mai i te tau 1934), he whakaaturanga whatu kākahu, he tukutuku, he whakairo, me ētahi atu kaupapa.
I tīmata Te Kohinga Taonga Māori i ngā tau 1980, i te rironga i te Film Archive ngā kiriata o Hēmi Makitānara i mahia i ngā tau 1920 mō Te Whare Pupuri Taonga o Te Tominiana o Aotearoa.
I haere a Makitānara rātou ko Te Rangihīroa (Tā Pita Buck) ko Apirana Ngata ki roto o Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, ki Te Tai Rāwhiti, ki Rotorua, ki Ruatāhuna me te awa o Whanganui. I kapohia ngā whakaahua o ngā whānau, ngā hapū me ngā iwi e 30 tau i mua i te hekenga nui ki ngā taone.
He mea āta whakarauora ēnei kiriata. Kia pai ai hoki te mārama i ngā kiriata, i hui tahi ki te kōrero ki ngā iwi, ā, i rangahaua hoki ngā tuhinga a Makitānara rātou ko Elsdon Best ko Johannes Anderson.
Kia pai ai Te Kohinga Taonga Māori nei, kei te kōrero tonu mātou ki ngā iwi, kia tika ai te whakaatu i ngā whakaahua o ngā tūpuna me ā rātou mahi.

Ēnei Rā
Kei te kohikohi haere tonu a ngā Taonga i ētahi atu taonga e pā ana ki te ao Māori.
Ki te hiahia ētahi ki te whakamahi ake i tētahi taonga o Te Kohinga Taonga Māori, ka kōrero tahi mātou ki ngā kaitiaki o aua taonga kia tika ngā whakaaetanga.

Ki te kitea he taonga Māori, ka kīia nō Te Kohinga Taonga Māori kia kī rā anō ngā iwi, ehara i te mea me noho ki tēnei kohinga.