Mārama - Manuscripts with memory

Mārama: Manuscripts with memory An intimate audience with Ngāti Kahungunu tīpuna Conference proceedings 22 to 24 June 2021

Mārama: Manuscripts with memory An intimate audience with Ngāti Kahungunu tīpuna EIT Eastern Institute of Technology Ltd Private Bag 1201 Taradale Napier New Zealand © EIT, 2022 ISBN 978-0-9951429-6-1 Printed Edition ISBN 9978-0-9951429-7-8 Electronic Edition All rights reserved Photos: Tatsiana Chypsanava, Nelson Provincial Museum Printed by EIT Reprographic

An exhibition Waitangi Teepa and David Tipene-Leach Te Aho a Māui Rangahau Māori Centre Eastern Institute of Technology Ltd Sponsored by Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga

A whānau inspired archival project.

Nō ngā whānau te mana motuhake.

Nā Te Aho a Māui te tiaki i ngā taonga.

The Tipene Matua Collection 1860-80’s letters written to Repudiation Movement leader Henare Matua and associated manuscripts, maps and books.

The JT Blake Collection Log books, records, diaries, notebooks, leases and maps written by NLC translator and court advocate, JT Blake in the 1880’s.

A kaupapa Māori approach to archives.

Whakahaerengia ki te kawa me te mana Māori.

Ka whai wāhi ai ki ōna hā ora, ki ōna hau ora …

… ki tōku whare e māhorahora nei.

Whakaeke mai ki runga hoki i taku whare kōrero

Te kohikohinga 1593 Records assigned identification numbers

10,450+ Tīpuna names recorded

945 Records with full transcriptions (that is more than 1456 pages)

1500+ Identified hapū, iwi collectives recorded

230 Petitions

3,300+ Wāhi, rohe, areas of significance

249 Published Government Gazettes

67 Personal land reports (795 pages, untranscribed)

33 Lease agreements

45+ Books (including albums)

102 Applications to the Māori land court and Māori Appellate Court

50+ Original maps/plans/whakapapa charts

“Our whānau have held these for five generations. Now is the time to share the knowledge.”

Rangitane Tipene Matua Whānau Kaitiaki

“This is so exciting. Up until now they’ve been lying around under somebody’s bed!”

Pat Parsons Historian and Whānau Kaitiaki

“He hahū i ngā kōrero koinā te pai o ēnei mahi.”

Waitangi Elizabeth Teepa Archivist Reo Māori Researcher

“Notions of kaitiakitanga: He kaipupuri noa iho pea” Lawrence Wharerau Senior Curator (Taonga Māori) Wellington Museum Experience Wellington

The Ngāi Tahu Archive

Tāngata Ngāi Tahu

an award-winning biography series

Kā Huru Manu

the Ngāi Tahu digital atlas

Kareao

the Ngāi Tahu Archive database

“… using innovative technologies to research tribal knowledge under the kaumātua of the Ngāi Tahu Claim.”

Takerei Norton Manager, Ngāi Tahu Archives

“…overseeing the photograph collections of the Ngāi Tahu Archive and managing the artworks and taonga collection for Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu.”

Tania Nutira Archives Advisor Ngāi Tahu Archives

“Whakapapa and pūrākau are their best in places significant to the kōrero.”

Maurice Manawatu Ngāi Tahu Archive

Heretaunga Tamatea Settlement Trust

“Archives are vital to the post-Settlement vision.”

Liz Munroe Lead Negotiator He Toa Takitini

“The taonga of these tīpuna are a major part of our identity and our future.”

Rose Mohi Te Whare o Heretaunga

“Ownership by hapū is normal and we need to make it happen.”

Victoria Wilson Heretaunga Tamatea Settlement Trust Cultural Redress Manager

Alexander Turnbull National Library

Creating pathways for taonga Māori

“The need is for connected databases and easy access to the printed word in Māori.”

Paul Diamond Curator Māori Alexander Turnbull National Library

‘‘We can achieve kaitiakitanga together, as a whānau, for our whānau.’’

Clare Butler Māori Digitalization Advisor Alexander Turnbull National Library

“We connect with our taonga through preservation.”

Vicki-Anne Heikell Field Conservator Alexander Turnbull National Library

“This workshop will cover practical steps you can take in the care, handling, and display…

… of whānau collections and books and the making of acid free boxes for storage.”

“A manuscript is the most authentic of taonga - written for a purpose by the hand of the tīpuna.”

Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Ruanuku, Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga

“We claim our space by decolonising Tamaki Paenga Hira” Mereana Tangapeau Pou Herenga Manager Auckland War Memorial Museum

“A journey of photography: from New Zealand public records to the taonga collections of a small museum.”

Tatsiana Chypsnava Digital Imaging Technician Nelson Provincial Museum

“Taonga manuscripts have literally changed my life.”

Ricky Winitana Mohi Te Atahikoia Whānau Archivist

With moments of pause and reflection …

… and of fun and of laughter …

… of engagement, excitement and exchange …

… of warm friendships and of grateful acknowledgement …

… in the presence of whānau.

Nei rā mātau o Te Aho a Māui e mihi atu ana.

The Te Aho a Māui Rangahau Māori Centre thank all whānau and participants.