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Maori Values TeamMaori Values refers to both Maori treasures (taonga) and people and is about ensuring these aspects of the Museum are acceptable according to a Maori perspective The Maori Values Team is integrated throughout the Museum in Collection Management, Public Programmes and Finance and Facilities. They are specialists in their areas but also meet regularly as the Maori Values Team, supporting the Director Maori and bringing a new level of integration of Maori policy, practice and procedure to the Museum in all aspects of management, collection, storage, exhibition, interpretation and marketing. Dr Paul Tapsell Te Arawa, Ngati Whakaue, Ngati Raukawa ki Maungatautari Paul Tapsell joined Auckland Museum as Director Maori - Tumuaki Maori in May 2000. He is a member of the well-known Tapsell family who trace their descent from the main tribes of Te Arawa and have strong genealogical affiliations throughout the Bay of Plenty and Waikato regions. From 1990-94 he was curator of the Rotorua Museum which was initially founded by his grandmother, Enid Tapsell. Paul represented the Rotorua region on the Historic Places Trust and was a national member on the former Museum Association of Aotearoa New Zealand. He returned to fulltime study in 1994 and completed an M.A. (First Class Hons) in Anthropology at the University of Auckland. Paul was then invited by the Pitt Rivers Museum to read for a doctorate in Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford where he completed his doctoral thesis: Taonga - a tribal response to museums (1998). Paul then accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at the Australian National University in Canberra (1999-2000). In the months before he joined Auckland Museum, Paul assisted the University of Auckland in the development of a new museums and cultural heritage programme. He is the current editorial board chair for Te Ara — NZ Museums Journal, and lectures at the University of Auckland in between executive duties and fulfilling publishing requirements for the Marsden Grant he jointly won in 2000. Chanel Clarke Ngapuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngati Porou, Waikato In her role as curator Maori, Chanel is responsible for the curatorial care and development of the Museum’s Maori collections. Chanel has taken an active role in participating on the Bicultural and Iwi (tribal) Development Sector Reference Group co-ordinated by National Services Te Paerangi, which provides regional museum services. She has also been involved in a number of other National Services Te Paerangi projects over the years including the Museum Standards programme as a Maori peer reviewer. Previous to her role at Auckland Museum, Chanel was the ethnology curator at the Waikato Museum of Art and History in Hamilton. She has considerable experience in the museum field including policy, collection and exhibition development, iwi liaison and public programmes. Chanel is a graduate of Waikato University and has a Bachelor of Social Science with a double major in history and Maori. In December of 1994 she was one of the first recipients of the prestigious Te Maori Manaaki Taonga Trust Scholarships which were established from funds generated by the now famous Te Maori exhibition. At that time the scholarship provided financial assistance and encouragement for her Masters degree, which she completed in 1998 with first class honours from the University of Waikato. Since obtaining her Masters degree Chanel also graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Museums Studies from Massey University in 2001. Kipa Rangiheuea Ngati Awa, Te Arawa Kipa is the educator Maori and his primary role at the Museum is the development and delivery of our Outreach Programme. This programme involves Kipa visiting kura kaupapa Maori (Maori language total immersion schools) to talk to the students about taonga. Kipa also works to enhance staff awareness of Te Reo and Tikanga Maori (Maori language and culture) through workshops. Kipa enjoys being able to interact, teach and support people in their desire and passion to learn Te Reo and Tikanga Maori. The new Pacific Resource Centre Te Kakano, is headed by Kipa and provides him with the digital capacity to now dynamically reach out to today’s youth from within the Museum. Catherine Jehly Te Arawa, Te Aitanga a Hauiti Catherine has links to Rotorua through her mother and Austria through her father. Her role at the Museum is to work on the taonga database in order to make taonga in the collections more accessible to Maori and trace the pathways of individual taonga. This involves photographing taonga and creating profiles including provenance, pathway and descriptions. Catherine enjoys having hands-on experience with taonga and seeing the connections visitors make with their tupuna via those taonga. Catherine came to the Museum with a background in anthropology, Maori development, and Maori studies at the University of Waikato and Museum studies at Massey University. She also started her MSocSc at Waikato (dissertation on house music and club culture). Nicola Railton Ngapuhi, Ngati Kuri Of Maori and Celtic descent, Nicola has links with Otaua, Kaikohe and Te Hapua in the North. Her role involves assisting and supporting the Maori values team who are integrated throughout the institution. This includes the coordination of meetings, assisting with the development and delivery of training programmes, and assisting with Maori events and exhibitions. She also provides administrative support to the Museum’s Maori Advisory Board, the Taumata-a-Iwi. Nicola is a graduate of the University of Auckland and has a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in English and Maori.
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