Te Papa and New Zealand's Indian communities - a case study about exhibition development: Stephanie Gibson: Tuhinga 14, 2003

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Tuhinga 14: 41 - 60 ARTICLE ABSTRACT: The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa) has a mandate to represent the diverse cultures of New Zealand. Different migrant communities are profiled in the Museum's Community Gallery every two years. The exhibition development process relies ...

Marquetry – laying it on thinly

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

The elaborate decoration of two cabinets by Anton Seuffert - the ‘Watt cabinet' and the ‘Hooker cabinet' - is an example of marquetry. It is a technique of finishing wooden furniture with a thin layer of wood, or veneer. The veneer may be made up of thousands of separate pieces of wood ...

Ruxmaniben Kasanji's cooking utensils

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Mrs Ruxmaniben Kasanji brought her own kitchen utensils with her from Gujarat when she emigrated here in 1948. They were amongst her most important possessions; without them her family would not have been able to eat the food they liked. Utensils like these were completely unavailable in New Zeal...

Seals of the realm

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By the time the Union Jack was fluttering over Russell, the colonisers of the British Empire were old hands at the business of ruling the native peoples of far-away lands. Apart from their dazzling technological wonders, such as the sailing ships that brought them, they mustered an array of milit...

King Tawhiao’s fern collection

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King Tāwhiao (date unknown-1894) Reigned 1860-1894 Tāwhiao was crowned the second Māori King on the death of his father, King P&#333tatau, in 1860. He rongoā Nāwai rā, ka mārama haere ngā t&#363puna ki t&#333 rātou taiao. He rongoā mai i &#275tehi...

Te Papa fish collection

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Te Papa holds New Zealand's national reference collection of fishes. There, three fish scientists look after, study, and add to the collection of 150,000 alcohol-preserved fish specimens in jars, buckets and tanks, some collected over seventy years ago. This is the repository where New Zeala...

Peter Black photographs

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One hundred and twenty-nine photographs by contemporary photographer Peter Black were acquired in 2007, updating Te Papa's holdings of Black's work that had previously not covered beyond 1986. This ranged across a number of his major series, such as Sites , Autoportraits , Public and Mo...

Common New Zealand ferns

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New Zealand is home to nearly 200 species of native ferns. If you are interested in learning more about New Zealand's ferns, here is a list of 13 to begin with.

Tuhinga 13, 2002

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EAN: 11734337 Tuhinga 13 contains papers on 'A rich Pleistocene-Holocene avifaunal sequence from Te Waka #1: terrestrial fossil vertebrate faunas from inland Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand (Part 2)'; 'New Fossil Records of Pelicans (Aves: Pelecanidae) from New Zealand&...

Tuhinga 4, 1995

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African clubmoss

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Selaginella kraussiana Recognition : ground-hugging, smothering lycophyte, whose small, pale-green leaves give its stems a feathery look. The sporangia (which produce spores) are aggregated into inconspicuous cones. Distribution/ecology : indigenous to Africa, but a widespread, nuisance-weed in N...

Drawing of Ourisia cotapatensis

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drooping filmy fern

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piripiri, irirangi Hymenophyllum demissum Recognition : small fern with dull, translucent fronds, creeping on the ground or on tree trunks. The sori (the aggregations of the spore-producing sporangia), which occur at the apices of the frond segments, are often paired. The frond is hairless and it...

A new genus and four new species of Deraeocorini (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae: Deraeocorinae) from New Zealand, with notes on other species: Alan C. Eyles: Tuhinga 17, 2006

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Tuhinga 17: 27 - 38 ARTICLE ABSTRACT: The new genus Poecilomiris and four new species, Poecilomiris longirostris , P. planus , Romna pallescens and R. rubisura , are described and illustrated. Revised keys to the genera of Deraeocorini in New Zealand, and to 14 species of Romna Kirkaldy, 1906, ar...

Garments by Nicholas Blanchet

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

This outfit for men - consisting of a ‘big T' jumper in azure merino wool, a wool/cotton slimline shirt, and a pair of pure wool Cambridge check ‘hustler' pants – was made by Nick Blanchet. When designing a garment, Nick Blanchet sketches a design, then makes a pattern. He chooses the f...

Jewel casket by Chrystabel Aitken

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In the early years of the twentieth century, new opportunities arose for women artists to develop and market their talents. Under the influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement, public taste had turned to fine handcrafted objects. Women, with their small ‘dainty' fingers, were believed to be ...

Sheep Shearing

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Wool became important to our economy in the nineteenth century, with the development of sheep farming and the rise of big estates. Today, there are around 25,000 farms in New Zealand, with about 48 million sheep spread across them. Most of these sheep need their wool removed regularly, by shearin...

Christmas in the Collections, 2010

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From 1 to 24 December, a variety of collection items associated with Christmas in New Zealand will feature on this page. This period is known to Christians as Advent, and, like an Advent calendar, a new image will appear every day. Advent calendars developed from a 19th-century German Lutheran tr...

Joseph Churchward - a life at the typeface

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Joseph Churchward recalls drawing letters in the sand as a child growing up in Samoa, where he was born in 1933. He is from the ‘aiga (family) Sä Anae, and the villages of Faleasiu and Tufulele. In 1946, when he was 13, Churchward left Samoa to attend secondary school in Wellington, New Zealand. ...

Drawing of Ourisia crosbyi

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