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Taonga comes home: Life mask of Ngāti Toa tupuna returns to Porirua 100 years later

A bust of Ngāti Toa tupuna Wi Neera Te Kanae was welcomed back to the Takapūwāhia Marae. Photo: BRUCE MACKAY / The Post Known only as A01392 in the records of a German museum, now the life mask of a ...
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Taonga: Head High actor Lionel Wellington on his mau rākau

Taonga are like newborn babies, precious. You have to be gentle and careful, and every time you pick them up you need to show them your love and appreciation. I believe that for any taonga Māori and ...
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Taonga by Pine Taiapa gifted to Tairāwhiti Museum for preservation and heritage

Julia Hardie (from left), Ralph Walker, Maia Keane, Henare Huriwai, Don Morrison and Tairawhiti Museum director Tapunga Nepe with the kōruru. A taonga made in 1965 by renowned whakairo (carving) ...
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Whirinaki Whare Taonga, Upper Hutt's arts gem, unveils $9m renovation

Leanne Wickham, director of Whirinaki Whare Taonga in Upper Hutt, pictured with one of its new exhibitions, ‘The Stories of Our Streets’, which opens on Saturday in the new heritage wing of the art ...