"Te Hono ki Hawaiki (the link with Hawaiki) is the meeting house at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Its highly innovative carvings were produced under the direction of Cliff Whiting. In the same way as earlier Māori artists adopted European materials and techniques when they could see advantages to doing so, Whiting used customwood to make these carvings. The timber of living native trees was spared, and exciting curved forms were created. A similarly flexible and ground-breaking attitude produced the colour scheme for the meeting house. Whiting said he aimed for 'a look that incorporated all the peoples who live here'". (17 November 2016. http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/45376/te-hono-ki-hawaiki-te-papa).
Te Hono ki Hawaiki (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa)
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Taonga puoro (Maori musical instruments), performers and events
Date: [1990-2004]
From: Nunns, Richard, 1945-2021: Collection
By: Page, Stuart, 1957-
Reference: PAColl-9112-3
Description: Photographs - many involving Richard Nunns - of a variety of taonga puoro, being made, or being played in a range of events in New Zealand and Greece, mostly from the early 1990s. Also includes photographs of a range of events: Mauri Tirikatene playing a putorino and demonstrating the correct stance and movements for players; Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns demonstrating on a range of instruments; instruments being made in the workshop of Clem Mellish; the visit of Finnish composer Erik Bergman in 1998; a taonga puoro wananga for children on Ohako Marae, Gisborne; performances by Moana Maniapoto and The Tribe in the Theatre of Herodus Atticus in Athens; Richard Nunns and Deborah Wai Kapohe in Oamaru; performances by Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns on the marae of Te Papa. Quantity: 108 colour original photographic print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 7 envelopes and letters relating to photographs.