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A life through boxes: The collected archives of Jonathan Mane-Wheoki

Humanities Technician Cassandra Bahr has been working in the Collected Archives at Te Papa, cataloguing and rehousing papers from people connected to Te Papa’s collecting areas. Her first task was working with the papers of Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, former Head of Arts and Visual Culture at Te Papa.Read more

2025-06-11
By: Cassandra Bahr
On: 11 Jun 2025
In: Behind the scenes

The mystery of Augustus Hamilton’s bird bone system

Melanie Ioane-Warren, one of our Natural History interns, talks about the important collection of bird bones gathered by the late Augustus Hamilton. Melanie is working on this bone collection together with Curators Alan Tennyson and Rodrigo Salvador, and GNS scientist Karyne Rogers. In 1875, the clipper ship Collingwood departed EnglandRead more

2021-08-31
By: Melanie Ioane-Warren
On: 31 Aug 2021
In: Behind the scenes, Science

Delving into the household accounts of James Hector

Dr Simon Nathan is an Honorary Research Associate at Te Papa. During his research towards a biography on James Hector, the founder of the Colonial Museum, he has delved into the household accounts of the Hector family, which are held in Te Papa’s Archive. In this guest blog post, he shares some of his findings onRead more

2014-08-19
By: Claire Regnault
On: 19 Aug 2014
In: Behind the scenes, History

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