A rare oil painting of an unidentified landscape by renowned New Zealand artist Charles Goldie is expected to bring up to $150,000 at an art auction in Auckland later this month. When Evening Shadows Fall is one of four works of art by Goldie .
Two Northland sites of significance to Māori listed 09 Apr 2021 11:15 AM Caption: Māngungu Mission at Horeke in the Hokianga.
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Two Northland places that have strong heritage and cultural significance to Māori have been formally recognised by Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga.
Māngungu at Horeke in the Hokianga has been added to the New Zealand Heritage List / Rārangi Kōrero as Wāhi Tūpuna – a place important to Māori for ancestral significance and associated cultural and traditional values.
A second place “ Piakoa at Tākou Bay has been recognised as a Wāhi Tapu Area containing sites sacred to Māori in the traditional, spiritual, religious, ritual or mythological sense.
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Māngungu at Horeke in the Hokianga has been added to the New Zealand Heritage List / Rārangi Kōrero as wāhi tūpuna - a place important to Māori for ancestral significance and associated cultural and traditional values.
Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Northland manager Atareira Heihei says while Māngungu Mission House is already listed as a Category 1 historic place, it was important to acknowledge the deep connection many Māori have to the wider landscape.
By providing a base for Wesleyan missionaries in the late 1820s, rangatira such as Eruera Maihi Patuone, Tāmati Waka Nene, Makoare Te Taonui, and Muriwai made Māngungu a significant place of cultural exchange on the Hokianga Harbour.
Distinguished historian Claudia Orange says recent Treaty settlements form a revolutionary pathway towards true partnership in Aotearoa. In an extract from the up-to-date edition of her award-winning book
The Treaty of Waitangi / Te Tiriti o Waitangi: An Illustrated History, she vividly describes the gathering and debate at Waitangi on the day before rangatira began to sign the Treaty.
OPINION: Letters, reports and diaries left by officials and missionaries provide a good record of the events of 5 and 6 February. From early on the 5th, Māori groups began to arrive. The waters of the Bay of Islands came alive with waka converging from all directions, each with thirty or more paddlers keeping time to the stroke. Settlers’ boats joined the stream, and the ships anchored offshore had all their flags flying.