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| Title: | Does History Matter? |
| Time: | 6'17" |
| Description: | This conversation between John Campbell and Michael King ranges across the importance of history itself, the unique nature of both Polynesian and European settlement of New Zealand and the significance of being a Pakeha New Zealander. TV3 Network Services gave permission for this excerpt from their John Campbell "Home Truths" television interview with Michael King first broadcast in October 2003. |
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| Title: | MATARIKI: Maori New Year |
| Time: | 3'19 |
| Description: | A celebration of Matariki, the Maori New Year, is suggested as a replacement for Queen's Birthday. Te Papa's Rangimoana Taylor sees Matariki as a recognition of the indigenous calendar and knowledge associated with the ancestors, stars and moon. Matariki is time of remembrance and celebration. Richard Hall, of the Carter Observatory, talks about the Sky God, Rangi, stretching across heavens from east to west and the importance of stars as navigational beacons for Maori. This story first screened on TVNZ's SUNDAY programme on 9th Jun 2002. Video supplied by the NZTV Archives. |
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| Title: | Matariki: The Maori Stars |
| Time: | 3'55" |
| Description: | Reporter Fiona Apanui interviews Kay Leather from the Carter Observatory about the Maori New Year marked by the appearance of Matariki or the Pleiades, a star cluster which rises over the Southern Hemisphere horizon at the beginning of June. Kay discusses the history of astronomy for Maori and cultures around the world, pointing out that the Subaru logo is actually the Pleiades cluster of stars. This interview is from the TVNZ series MAI TIME first transmitted on 28th June 2003. Video supplied by the NZTV Archives. |
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| Title: | HAWAIKINUI: Origins of the waka. |
| Time: | 3'11" |
| Description: | Shows the carvers working on Hawaiikinui canoe in large open shed in Pahiatua 1981. Greg Whakataka-Brightwell was the originator of the six year project to build canoe and navigate from Tahiti to Aotearoa by the stars, and Greg explains the reasons for undertaking project. |
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| Title: | HAWAIKINUI: The Voyage. |
| Time: | 3'18" |
| Description: | Greg talks about the voyage from Moorea in Tahiti. The waka's crew was truly international and the waka built to a traditional design only a few modern materials. |
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| Title: | HAWAIKINUI: The Ancestors Were Right. |
| Time: | 3'45" |
| Description: | Greg reflects on the kinds of marine and bird life seen on the voyage. The signs of land noticed at sea and the use of traditional star navigation skills confirmed ancestral beliefs and disproved old scholastic beliefs about migration to New Zealand. Greg hopes the voyage will encourage non-violent endeavour amongst young Maori people and will forge new links in the 21st Century amongst Maori and Polynesians. |
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| Title: | Mataatua & Te Aurere. |
| Time: | 3'31" |
| Description: | Ocean-going Maori waka are sailing on the seas again. Hector talks about the ocean going waka tradition in New Zealand and its importance to Maoritanga. We see bulldozers dragging a giant felled tree out of the forest, destined to become the hull for a waka and then its launching day and the plans for Te Aurere, a double hulled waka built by Hector Busby which was sailed to Rarotonga |
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| Title: | Modern Waka Construction. |
| Time: | 2'41" |
| Description: | Beginning with photos of the 1989 ceremony, selection and felling of the tree destined to become Te Aurere, the chosen waka to sail to Rarotonga, Hector Busby and fellow Maori build the waka. Hector talks about using ancient Maori voyaging and navigational skills.. He marks out on land a star navigation compass for his students to learn from. The double hulled waka Te Aurere sails on the open sea, using rudder and sail. |
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| Title: | Traditional Navigation. |
| Time: | 4'14" |
| Description: | Learning to read the weather, the sea, the sun and the stars are key to navigating the Pacific by traditional methods. Hector Busby and young Maori work to prepare a star compass on land as a teaching aid for celestial navigation. Nainoa Thompson plotting a navigation map with compass and ruler, watched by Hector Busby and young Maori. Nainoa Thompson places the discovery of Polynesian heritage in relation to personal cultural and national pride. |
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| Title: | Polynesian Navigators. |
| Time: | 2'57" |
| Description: | Illustrations of Polynesian sailing vessels and waka, footage from ocean voyages support Nainoa Thompson's views on the significance of Polynesian voyaging and exploration heritage. |
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| Title: | The Living Knowledge. |
| Time: | 2'43" |
| Description: | At the 1992 Rarotongan Festival of the Arts, we see the arrival of many Polynesian waka. Nainoa Thompson trains young Maori students in old navigational techniques and celestial navigation. Charlie Wilson, Tai Tokerau, explains how important Polynesian seafaring knowledge is to Maori history, traditions and revival of ancient seafaring knowledge. |
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| Title: | Canoe. |
| Time: | 2'33" |
| Description: | This programme takes a look at the Waka Moana Symposium which saw a gathering of traditional Polynesian canoes at Auckland Maritime Museum in 1996. Ismael John, Marshall Islands senator, relates how few people retain the old knowledge to pass it on. Hector Busby, captain Te Aurere, is pleased that there are now two traditional navigators from Aotearoa, and Haki Thatcher hopes that young people will train on board Te Aurere. This excerpt is from TVNZ's Tangata Pacifika series broadcast on 7 April 1996. Video supplied by the NZTV Archives. |
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