Ancestral Remains
Museums Aotearoa - a new direction
April this year saw a mass resignation of the board of Museums Aotearoa, reportedly over its governance and management. There were concerns it might not survive the upheaval, but there's now a new… Audio
Arapata Hakiwai
Arapata Hakiwai is the Kaihautu at Te Papa Tongarewa leading Matauranga Maori and the museum's engagement with iwi. He manages the Repatriation Programme, responsible for the recent return of human… Audio
Arapata Hakiwai : repatriating remains
Kaihautu at Te Papa Tongarewa, leading Matauranga Maori and the museum's engagement with iwi, and managing the Repatriation Programme responsible for the return of Maori and Moriori ancestral remains.
…Moving ceremony & celebration greets ancestral remains
The largest ever repatriation of ancestral Maori and Moriori remains have been welcomed back with a moving ceremony at Te Papa Tongarewa. Audio
Tipuna welcomed home
Over a hundred Maori and Moriori ancestral remains will be formally welcomed home at Te Papa in just over an hour's time more than a century after they left New Zealand. Audio
Repatriation of ancestral remains in NZ history announced
The largest collection of Māori and Moriori ancestral remains to be returned to New Zealand has been handed over to a Te Papa delegation in New York overnight. Audio
One of the largest repatriation of Maori remains to occur
A museum in New York is returning more than 100 Maori and Morori ancestral remains in the largest such repatriation in New Zealand's history. The remains from the American Museum of Natural History… Audio
Maori and Moriori remains returned to NZ
Te Papa Tongarewa's Kaihautu, Michelle Hippolite, speaks about the return of Maori and Moriori remains from Australia which were gifted to museums in Sydney and Perth between 1899 and 1932. Audio