Bill Hammond, 'Untitled', 1987 - Print Leslie Adkin Analysis of human bone samples

Analysis of human bone samples provided detailed medical histories of the people who lived in the region

for the first time

Matariki WIlliams is Curator Mātauranga Māori at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Dressmakers were essential contributors to the development of New Zealand

is a great natural cleanser as it draws impurities and excess oils from your skin

Bill Hammond, 'Untitled', 1987 - Print Leslie Adkin Analysis of human bone samplesBill Hammond (born 1947) studied art in Christchurch in the 1960s. He became a full time painter in 1981. In 1989 Hammonds work changed radically after a trip to the subantarctic Auckland Islands, where he encountered what he described as a paradise for birds. He learned about the nineteenth century trade in native birds that had decimated so many species. In his new paintings, hybrid bird human figures became a metaphor for all threatened creatures.