The Cook Islands language of kopu tangata (family)
Applied arts lecturer Tuaine-Nurse Robati discusses the meanings of the words Cook Islanders use to talk about immediate family and the wider extended family.Read more
2021-08-06
Otintaai: The Rising Sun and the I-Kiribati climate change warrior
This year for Kiribati Language Week 2021 (11–17 July) we put the spotlight on the recent acquisition, Otintaai, a female I-Kiribati climate change warrior. Curator Rachel Yates introduces the master weavers and some of the speeches from the welcoming ceremony in May 2021. Read more
2021-07-13
The Solomon Islands story of Tiola and the origin of the nguzunguzu
The following is a kustom stori of the Roviana people of the Western Solomon Islands; the story of Tiola, a banara (chief) in Solomon Islands mythology and the origin of the nguzunguzu, the prow figureheads used by the islands’ tribes.Read more
2021-07-09
Little-known lives: Rotumans in 19th-century Aotearoa New Zealand
To mark the recent Rotuman Language Week 2021, Senior Curator Pacific Histories and Cultures Sean Mallon shares two rare stories of Rotuman travellers who found their way to New Zealand in the early 1800s, and how a contemporary Rotuman artist has remembered one of them.Read more
2021-05-25
Co-collecting climate change in Tokelau: Project IKA
Pacific curator Rachel Yates introduces a co-collecting project that took Te Papa to Tokelau’s three low-lying coral atolls in the South Pacific.Read more
2021-05-03
Making histories: reflecting on experiences of Covid-19
Curator Asian New Zealand Histories Dr Grace Gassin introduces Making Histories – a Te Papa project exploring different experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more
2021-02-19
The only island holiday we’re getting this year – spending time in the rare books collection
Amanda Sykes and Alice Hinton, Master of Museum and Heritage Practice program student at Wellington’s Victoria University, spent three weeks working on a placement at Te Papa’s Research library. Here they describe their work and adventures while here.Read more
2020-09-18
Revisiting the Tongan co-collecting stories of Project 83: Small Things Matter – Maya Taufa
Our last blog in the special series that revisits the stories of the ‘youth agents’ of Project 83: Small Things Matter. This co-collecting project was developed in 2017 by the Year 13 Tongan language class of Sir Edmund Hilary Collegiate.Read more
2020-09-12
Revisiting the Tongan co-collecting stories of Project 83: Small Things Matter – Grant Vea‘ila
For Uike Kātoanga‘i ‘o e Lea Faka-Tonga |Tongan Language Week we are sharing the stories of the ‘youth agents’ of Project 83: Small Things Matter. This co-collecting project was developed in 2017 by the Year 13 Tongan language class of Sir Edmund Hilary Collegiate.Read more
2020-09-11
Revisiting the Tongan co-collecting stories of Project 83: Small Things Matter – Mele Haunga
For Uike Kātoanga‘i ‘o e Lea Faka-Tonga | Tongan Language Week we revisit the stories of the ‘youth agents’ of Project 83: Small Things Matter. This co-collecting project was developed by the Year 13 Tongan language class of Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate in 2017. Read more
2020-09-10
Revisiting the Tongan co-collecting stories of Project 83: Small Things Matter – Alfred Paea
To celebrate Tongan Language Week we look back at Project 83: Small Things Matter, from 2017. Today, Alfred Paea writes about his Polyfest uniform.Read more
2020-09-09
Revisiting the Tongan co-collecting stories of Project 83: Small Things Matter – Sini Atoa
For Uike Kātoanga‘i ‘o e Le Faka-Tonga | Tongan Language Week we take a look at the stories of Project 83: Small Things Matter in a special blog series. This co-collecting project was developed by the Year 13 Tongan language class of Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate in 2017. Read more
2020-09-08
Revisiting the Tongan co-collecting stories of Project 83: Small Things Matter – Elisapeta Fononga
To celebrate Tongan Language Week we take a look back at Project 83: Small Things Matter in 2017. This co-collecting project was developed by the Year 13 Tongan language class of Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate with the guidance of their teacher Mrs Maata Fusitua.Read more
2020-09-07
What’s in a name? Cook Islands Language Week 2020
The theme for Cook Islands Language Week 2020 is Kia pūāvai tō tātou reo Māori Kūki ‘Āirani i Aotearoa, That the Cook Islands Māori language may blossom throughout New Zealand. Kaitiaki Taonga Collection Manager Humanities Grace Hutton looks at some of the history of the names and languages of the different islands that make up the Cook Islands archipelago. Read more
2020-08-05
Te taetae ni Kiribati (Kiribati language) and wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand
Rose Namoori-Sinclair is from Tabiteuea Island in Kiribati. She is currently working as UN Coordination Specialist – Kiribati. Her extensive research background, as part of a PhD research with the Pacific Studies Programme within Va‘aomanū Pasifika at Victoria University of Wellington, has focused on the health and wellbeing issues of Pacific women. We asked Rose some questions about the significance of te taetae ni Kiribati (Kiribati language) in Aotearoa New Zealand.Read more
2020-07-15