Whenua! 1996-03-17

Part 2/2: NTK-WHE-960317-PM

International Māori: Leah Newbold, (Bowperson) talks to Libby about her yacht racing lifestyle and reflections of Whitbread Racing like hitting whales during racing.
She is heading to Sweden to join an international, female, yacht-racing team.

Kupu Korikori: Muru Walters regarding the Economics of The Cook Islands. Wine box etc.

Hekenukumai Busby: Regarding ocean-going Canoes.

Kokako: In Wellington, The International Festival of Arts is in full swing. Marina Sciascia, co-ordinator of the Māori component, talks to Libby about contemporary art. Day and night, the streets are thronged with festivalgoers making their way from the State Opera House to Taki Rua Theatre, the Michael Fowler Centre to the Patua Exhibition at the City Gallery. Also on the streets are Māori carvers demonstrating their craft on large blocks of stone. Polynesian dance troupes and buskers from all parts of the world.

Elma Maua talks to Bob Hopeman about experimental archaeology and he's looking into the Polynesian people or as he calls them, The Austronesians. What he's doing now is building a double-hull outrigger canoe with traditional materials and a replica of what he thinks is the type of boat which will get people to Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. He's also currently preparing to sail to Indonesia, call into Papua New Guinea, then on to Samoa Tonga and Fiji. He's an Englishman living in Bali.

Peter McKearney, curator of the National Maritime Museum, rejoins Hēnare and Libby to talk about traditional Māori sailing skills and the boat restoration programme by, and for the Museum.

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