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The Acknowledging our Colonial Past project seeks to ensure that all taonga Māori collected during James Hector’s directorship at the Colonial Museum have their provenance and associated information reconciled with their current registration numbers, and therefore made available to our visitors and those connected to them.
This project seeks to ensure that all taonga Māori collected during James Hector’s directorship at the Colonial Museum have their provenance and associated information reconciled with their current registration numbers, and therefore made available to our visitors and those connected to them.
Our national museum’s history began in 1865, and early documentation wasn't as thorough or careful as it is today. Curator Mātauranga Māori Amber Aranui takes us back to this creatively documented time and what it means for tracking our collection items.
Master’s student Manon Verdello worked with the Mātauranga Māori team on the Acknowledging our Colonial Past project. A part of her work was reconciling the original collection records from the 1860s to the current collection database. Here, Manon describes how she went about it and some of the challenges she faced along the way.
The Taonga Files by Curators Dr Amber Aranui and Migoto Eria, and Dr Monica Tromp is a podcast about provenance research – the detective work of uncovering the histories of taonga Māori held in museum collections. Each episode explores how research reveals not only what sits on museum shelves, but how those taonga arrived there, and the stories they carry.
This link will take you to the Taonga Files podcast on RSS.com.
