#2 - The Forgotten Taonga
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#2 - The Forgotten Taonga
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A single line in an 1865 museum ledger.
A registration number from the wrong century.
A photograph altered to hide everything but a single carving.
This episode dives into the forensic world of provenance research as Amber traces the journey of a tauihu that disappeared inside the museum’s collection. With help from the next generation of museum researchers, and a lot of patient detective work, she uncovers how this taonga — the first ever recorded in the Colonial Museum — slipped into silence, and how it finally found its way back into the light.
Glossary
Atua - ancestor with continuing influence, god, supernatural being, deity
Huaki - washboard of a war canoe
Kōrero - speech, narrative, story, news account, discussion, conversation.
Manaia - stylised figure used in carving
Tauihu - prow or figurehead of a Māori war canoe
Taonga Māori - Māori cultural treasures
Takarangi - double spiral pattern in Māori carving, said to symbolise the revolving heavens.
Te Ao Māori - the Māori world
Waka - canoe