Plantago

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The plantains ( Plantago, Plantaginaceae) are small, wind-pollinated rosette herbs. There are about 20 species of Plantago in New Zealand. Ten of the eleven native species are endemic to New Zealand. ( Plantago triantha is also native to Tasmania, Australia.) In addition, several introduced plant...

Recent Art and Photography acquisitions

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Each year Te Papa continues to develop its collections with new art, contemporary decorative arts, and photography additions. Acquisitions in these areas can be seen year-by-year below, including notes on major acquisitions and a listing of every item purchased or gifted.

New species and records of deep-water mollusca from off New Zealand: R. K. Dell: Tuhinga 2, 1995

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Tuhinga 2: 1 - 26 ARTICLE ABSTRACT: New species of Acharax , Adipicola , Lyonsiella , Poromya Antimargarita and Antarctodomus are described from off New Zealand. New records are given for Galeodea triganceae Dell, Volutomitra banksii Dell and V. ( Latiromitra ) problematica Ponder. The subspecies...

Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is the successor to the Museum of New Zealand Records, the National Museum of New Zealand Records, and the Dominion Museum Records in Ethnology. It is peer reviewed, published annually in June, and collects together papers by Te Papa...

Algae from the Cook Islands

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Captain Cook's second voyage (Jul 1772-Jul 1775)

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By the time Cook had triumphantly returned from his first voyage, he had already thought about what could be achieved on another voyage; in particular, to establish once and for all whether there was any habitable continent in the southern hemisphere. Cook's employers obviously agreed with h...

A revision of Nomaua (Araneae: Synotaxidae) and description of a new synotaxid genus from New Zealand: Brian M. Fitzgerald and Philip J. Sirvid: Tuhinga 20, 2009

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Tuhinga 20: 137 - 158 ARTICLE ABSTRACT: The genus Nomaua (Araneae: Synotaxidae: Pahorinae), endemic to New Zealand, is revised, including description of five new species ( Nomaua urquharti, N. rimutaka , N. repanga , N. taranga and N. rakiura ). The female of the type species ( Nomaua crinifrons ...

Tales from Te Papa: Photography episodes

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Episodes of Tales from Te Papa relating to the Photography collection.

Biography of Christine Hellyar

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Christine Hellyar was born and raised in New Plymouth. Enrolled as a student at Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland in the late 1960s, she began working with rubber latex. Hellyar's interest in this process was based on the idea of making casts of ‘real' materials and objects – somethi...

Some terrestrial flatworm taxa (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Continenticola) of the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand: Leigh Winsor; Tuhinga 22, 2011

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Tuhinga 22: 161-169 ARTICLE ABSTRACT: Within the context of ongoing taxonomic revisions of terrestrial flatworms from the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands: (1) a new tribe Argaplanini is erected; (2) a new genus Argaplana is erected; (3) the species Argaplana ranuii is redescribed; and (4) the re...

Toki Niu Hila: making Tokelau adzes and identity in New Zealand: Sean Mallon with Kupa Kupa and Jack Kirifi: Tuhinga 14, 2003

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Tuhinga 14: 11 - 24 ARTICLE BSTRACT: This article examines the manufacture of a set of Tokelau toki (hafted adzes) in New Zealand. The toki are usually thought of as functional tools, but they are also a medium through which the politics of relationships, knowledge transfer, and cultural identity...

International watercolours and drawings

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Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Te Papa has a collection of some 600 mainly British drawings and watercolours. Highlights of this collection are works by Thomas Girtin, John Sell Cotman, David Cox, Samuel Prout, and Thomas Rowlandson. Twentieth century A small collection of watercolours and d...

Te Papa's collections in the Google Art Project

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A number of Te Papa's art works, objects and Taonga are available in the Google Art project, in high resolution, alongside iconic works from other major institutions around the world. Take a look here

Marine algae of the West Coast, South Island, New Zealand: Don Neal and Wendy Nelson: Tuhinga 10, 1998.

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Tuhinga 10: 87 - 118 ARTICLE ABSTRACT: The West Coast of New Zealand's South Island is a windward shore that transects a westerly temperate ocean current system. The coastline structure is very much dominated by its history of glaciation and tectonic uplift, and it's high sediment loadi...

Tales from Te Papa: Conservation episodes

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Episodes of Tales from Te Papa relating to Conservation.

Marine mammal collectors

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Sir James Hector, founded the marine mammal collection in 1865. Hector has two species of cetacean named after him, Hector's dolphin and Hector's beaked whale. Each of the subsequent curators and technicians associated with the marine mammal collection have added to it by acquiring mate...

Tapa from Tonga

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In Tonga, tapa cloth is known as ngatu. It is highly valued, and used for special occasions such as wedding and funeral ceremonies. But in the past it was put to more practical use, in bed covers, mosquito netting, sheets, and room dividers. Read about how tapa are made and used in Tonga here: Ta...

Biography of Girolamo Nerli

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This work was painted in Dunedin. But you could be forgiven for thinking it originated in Italy, because the buildings have a distinctly Italian look to them. It is by an Italian painter, Girolamo Nerli, who lived in Dunedin for three years in the 1890s, during which time he inspired a generation...

A stochastic approach to the reconstruction of prehistoric human diet in the Pacific region from bone isotope signatures: B.F. Leach, C.J. Quinn, & G.L. Lyon: Tuhinga 8, 1996

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Tuhinga 8: 1 - 54 ARTICLE ABSTRACT: A theoretical constraint on dietary reconstructions using isotope analyses bones is that for a given number of isotopes, N, one cannot calculate the proportions of more than N+1 food types. This strict algebraic limitation can be relaxed by adopting a stochasti...

Highlights from the Pacific Cultures Collection

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The Pacific Collection has been shaped by changing institutional and curatorial priorities, which have in turn been influenced by the history of New Zealand as a Pacific nation, the roles that New Zealanders have played in the Pacific islands, and the migration of Pacific peoples to New Zealand i...