| In Te Ao Hurihuri our Maori Educators share with students aspects of their identity as Maori and draw links between the taonga (treasures) on display and the concepts and values of their ancestors. Students talk, share, handle objects and inquire while experiencing aspects of tikanga Maori.
Set partly in Hotunui, the wharenui (meeting house), students work during the first hour with original and replica objects to develop understandings about the materials, technologies and skills of early Maori.
In the second hour, students and accompanying adults work within the gallery, aided by learning materials, to focus on waka taua (war canoe), personal adornment and aspects of daily life in a Maori community some 600 to 700 years ago.
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