Museum's Waitaha collection naming decision pleases iwi
Katie O'Neill/Supplied Dr Kelli Te Maihāroa (Waitaha, tūturu, Ngāti Rārua Ātiawa Ātiawa) is pleased the issue over the naming of the Waitaha Taoka collection has been resolved. A stoush over the name of a collection of Waitaha taoka (treasures) has been resolved in time for its exhibition in the new look and newly named museum in Oamaru reopening on Monday. Waitaha iwi were concerned the museum had signalled the collection of ancient artefacts would be named after the Willetts’ family only, who found it on Waitaha ancestral land at the Waitaki River mouth in 1953. The last time the...
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