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Some historians are concerned New Zealand's public libraries and museums are being priced out of buying national treasures by private investors snapping up items from the country's early history.

A historical document that reveals early colonisers buying islands in the Hauraki Gulf from Māori for “one double barrel gun, eight muskets and one barrel of...

A historical document that reveals early colonisers buying islands in the Hauraki Gulf from Māori for “one double barrel gun, eight muskets and one barrel

It was a room dedicated to two of the former truck driver’s favourite things. The giant television fuelled his lifetime love of rugby. The paintings that...

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A rare cloak of harakeke and kiwi feathers has sold at auction.

By Kelvin McDonald of Whakaata Maori
A mid-1800s kahu kiwi will go under the auctioneer’s hammer today in Auckland.
The cloak has been in the possession of

A collector’s family in Sydney returned the kahu kiwi to Aotearoa for sale.

Pendant was expected to fetch around NZ$50,000 before sudden withdrawal.

Mystery continues to surround a Trade Me auction which claims to be selling a taiaha with links to the Māori monarch, King Tāwhiao.