Te Motunui Epa Travel Ngāti Awa

Ngāti Awa

Lionel and Ray Skipper

She specialises in contemporary social history research and collecting to reflect the stories of Māori communities

Along with author Justine Olsen Gillian Candler

cultures and space

Te Motunui Epa Travel Ngāti AwaBy Rachel Buchanan This stunning book examines how five interconnected carved panels, Te Motunui Epa, have journeyed across the world and changed practices, understanding and international law on the protection and repatriation of stolen cultural treasures. The story begins in the early 1800s in Peropero swamp, just north of Waitara. Taranaki was teetering on the edge of what would be almost a century of war, and Te tiawa hap moved quickly to