Kōiwi tōroa

Date: [ca1975-ca2004]

From: Nunns, Richard, 1945-2021: Collection

By: Alford, Rachel, active 2005; James, Brian, active 1983

Reference: PAColl-9112-5

Description: Photographs - mostly from the mid 1980s - of a range of instruments (old and new, Maori, Japanese, Chinese, from Pacific Islands and Celtic) being played at events in different parts of New Zealand, by New Zealand and visiting performers. Includes shakuhachi, guqin, a Rarotongan nose flute, a Celtic horn, taonga puoro including a koauau made from koiwi tangata (human bone) and a kete woven by Geneva Gray. Also includes images of performances curated by Allan Thomas in the auditorium of the National Library; copy of the cover for an album `Traditional music of the Maori' with Mrs Wineera of Porirua; the opening of visitor facilities in the Ruakuri Cave at Waitomo; an event in the crater of Mount Tarawera; a workshop at an Auckland teachers training college; expeditions in search of pounamu in the Arahura River valley; a tour by Urban Taniwha. Quantity: 100 colour original photographic print(s). 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 papers (letters and envelopes).

Date: [between 1895 and 1915]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: PAColl-6056-05

Description: Photographs taken between1895 and 1915 of Māori people, whare whakairo, meeting houses and communities, along with a variety of carved taonga such as poupou and rock art from across New Zealand. Also includes postcards of people and places photographed in different locations. Some of the prints are annotated on the reverse. Three prints have images of kōiwi - human remains. Kōiwi (human remains) visible at PAColl-6056-05-05, 06, and 24. Title supplied by Library. Hei whakamōhio: He whakaahua o ngā kōiwi tangata i roto i tēnēi taonga. Please be aware this object contains images of human remains. Quantity: 43 b&w original photographic print(s).