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Pukaki : a comet returns

documentary heritage
  • Description

    "Pukaki- a comet returns records the life and transformations of Pukaki, an ancestral father of Ngati Whakaue of Te Arawa: from mortal rangatira to carved ancestor at Ohinemutu, from curiosity on display at the Auckland War Memorial Museum to national icon in the Te Maori exhibition, climaxing with his return home to Rotorua in October 1997.

    This book intersperses Paul Tapsell's narrative with the memories of Ngati Whakaue elders, principally the late paramount leader Hamuera Taiporutu Mitchell. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 drawings and colour photographs, this work will stand as a model for the management of tribal taonga throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand."--Back cover.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    GN672.6.A7 TAP (Library of Congress Call Number)

    27636 (Cat ID)

    29345 (DBTextworks system ID)

    19593 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

Images

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Pukaki : a comet returns
  • Primary Maker
  • Contributor/Publisher
    Reed
  • Place
  • Date
    2000
  • Physical Description

    175 pages : illustrations (some colour), genealogical tables, maps, portraits (some colour) ; 25 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    0790007304
  • Language
    English
    Te Reo Māori
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    4 items in this collection. View all items.

  • Related Object Notes
    MUS-2011-3 Director Maori: Taonga files
  • Subject Category
  • Provenance Details
    Copy 93226 has signature handwritten on title page 'Paora Tapihana, 31. vii. 2001'.
    Copy 129405: "Best Wishes, Paora Tapihana" hand-written in pen on half-title.
  • Content
    List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Author's note -- Introduction : Taonga -- I potiki -- II genesis -- III Parawai -- IV utu -- V Ohinemutu -- VI atua -- VII kuwaha -- VIII tiki -- IX presentation -- X obfuscation -- XI curiosity -- XII artefact -- XIII art -- XIV icon -- XV koromatua -- XVI thesis -- XVIII comet -- XIX future -- Appendices -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index of names and tribes -- Korero whakamutunga.
    List of narrators -- Wihapi Te Amohau Winiata -- Honohono Morrison -- Pihopa Kingi -- Hiko o te Rangi Hohepa -- Roger Neich -- Kiharoa Akuhata -- Irirangi Kairo Tiakiawa -- Pirihira Fenwick -- Kuru o te Marama Waaka -- Lily Te Amohau -- Rui Te Amohau Haronga -- Manuhuia Bennett -- Huhana (Bubbles) Mihinui -- Sir Michael Hardie Boys.
  • Public Access Text

    Includes bibliographical references (pages [170]-172) Montana New Zealand Book Awards, NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction, 2001

  • Subject Notes
    Paul Tapsell is of Te Arawa and Tainui descent. A former curator of the Rotorua Museum, Oxford doctoral scholar and post-doctoral fellow at Australian National University, he is now Director Maori
  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
    General Collection
    Reserve Collection
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    05 Dec 2024
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