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Recent acquisitions: ‘apei and monuma from Rotuma

In support of Gasav Ne Fäeag Rotuạm Ta | Rotuma Language Week 2022, Curator Pacific Cultures Rachel Yates reflects on the acquisition of an ‘apei sala (white mat) and monuma (blouse) for the Pacific Cultures collections.Read more

By: Rachel Yates

On: 11 May 2022

In: Pacific

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

By: Sean Mallon

On: 25 May 2021

In: History, Pacific