| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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The entrance.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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The war memorial.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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The courtyard.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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The museum features Maori culture. This is a putatara (shell trumpet).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Tiheru, a wooden bailer used to remove water from canoes.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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A mahe (sinker).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Mere pounamu (a short weapon).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Kiwi feather cloak made from flax and wool.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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A taiaha is a symbol of Maori diplomatic power.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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The tip of a long staff once used as a symbol of power.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Whalebone paddle.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Late 20th century feather cloak.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Papahou (treasure box).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Detail of a carved wooden papahou (treasure box).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Whalebone club.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Items in an excavated pa (fortified village).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Basalt taumata atua (a guardian for a garden).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Pumice container.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Poster for Waiheke Island (1922).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Model of a boat used by Polynesian people to navigate the Pacific Ocean (2020).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Items made from kauri gum (1900s).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Waka waterways used by early Maori settlers.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Wooden prow of a Maori boat (1882).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Detail of the wooden carved prow of a Maori boat (1882).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Advert for the National Museum.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Mururoa (2018).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Wooden carving of a Maori warrior.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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A pare, a carved lintel over the doorway of a chief's house.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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A pare found in a muddy river bank.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Pou whakarae (wooden stockade post) from 1920.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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A war canoe figurehead.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Carved wooden war jambs.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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War canoe prow.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Detail of a war canoe prow (1848).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Detail of a carved wooden war canoe prow.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Decorated wooden storehouse threshold (18th century).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Detail of a decorated wooden storehouse threshold (18th century).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Carved wooden Maori door jamb (whakawae).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Wooden whakawae.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Large carved wooden whakawae (door jamb).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Detail of a carved wooden whakawae (door jamb).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Detail of a carved wooden whakawae (door jamb).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Detail of a carved wooden whakawae (door jamb).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Door jamb. The figure marks the threshold of a Maori house.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Detail of a Maori door jamb (17th century).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Maori war canoe.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Detail of the prow of a Maori war canoe.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Prow of a Maori war canoe.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Figure on a Maori war canoe (front view).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Detail of the carvings on a Maori war canoe.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Detail of the carvings on a Maori war canoe. The canoe is the centerpiece of the Maori exhibits.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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The interior of a Maori war canoe.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Intricately carved paekoko (wooden clapper).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Intricately carved kumete (Maori container) and lid (19th century).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Hair combs.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Carved piece made for the 19th century tourist trade.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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19th century kumete made for sale.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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19th century jade jewelry.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Poupou (house wall panel) recovered from a swamp in 1885.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Detail of a poupou (house wall panel).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Elaborately carved canoe prow from the 1860s.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Jade and whale bone Maori clubs from the 1840s.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Kapu whakairo (carved vase) made by the Ngati Toa tribe (Maori).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Carved image of the Madonna and Child from a Catholic Chapel in Rotorua (1845).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Detail of a waharoa (gateway) from the 1830s.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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A mauri serves as a resting place for a god. They were often taken on canoes to ensure safety.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Personal ornaments made of jade.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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A woven kete (basket).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Weaving came to New Zealand from the Pacific.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Whariki (woven mats) are used for rituals at blessings, births, weddings and deaths.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Ceramic bookends (1958).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Implements used for skin markings (tattoo).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Part of a large war canoe found in a swamp in 1895 and remembered as the fastest canoe of its time.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Maori village guardians. The image is of a deified ancestor.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Village guardian.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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A whalebone cleaver used as a weapon.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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A war club with a chord.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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A pataka (raised store house).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Carved guardian for a pataka (raised store house).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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View of the interior of a pataka (raised store house).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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The interior of a pataka (raised store house) is beautifully carved.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Roof decorations of a pataka (raised store house).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Food is stored in wooden containers on mats inside a pataka (raised store house).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Patakas (raised store house) are very ornate.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Carvings on a pataka (raised store house).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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The interior of a Maori meeting house.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Maori meeting houses are very ornately decorated with carvings.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Maori meeting house decoration.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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The ceiling of a Maori meeting house.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Portrait of Hitiri Te Paerata, a chief of Taupo (died 1909).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Portrait of Hinemoa from 1920.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Portrait of Kamariera Te Hau-Takiri Wharepapa (1823-1920), a Maori chief who visited England.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Portrait of Te Aho-o-te-Rangi Wharepu (1811-c1913), a warrior who fought againts the British in 1863.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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A carved ridge pole for a house (mid 19th century).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Detail of a carved poupou.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Carved post from the Bay of Plenty.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Whao (jade chisel).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Wakahuia (treasure boxes) held valued items and feathers.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Hue (gourds) used for storing water or food.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
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Patu Mka (stone pounders).
|
2023 |
were added from 1 February 2025.