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Te Rua o te Moko
18 December 2015 –
3 April 2016
John Gully The Inlands Kaikouras from the Awatere Valley, Marlborough 1871. Watercolour. Collection of Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. C-096-013
Each of the eighteen rūnanga within Ngāi Tahu are represented here by a work of art depicting a significant land site.
For Ngāi Tahu, the land is whenua—the placenta from which life is sustained. In this exhibition, the re-purposing of early landscape paintings of Te Waipounamu / the South Island as indigenous territory allows us to consider these works within a new frame and to look again at the rich and complex histories we share.
Exhibition number 988
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Curator:
Nathan Pōhio
Exhibition number: 988
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