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Mahi Raranga

April 14, 2022April 20, 2022 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1970s, Aku Mahi Whatu Māori, dame rangimarie hetet, documentary, my art of maori weaving, NZ on Screen, Ramarihi MacDougall, raranga, taonga maori, weaving

Ramarihi MacDougall, a Kaiatawhai Taonga – Collections Archivist at Ngā Taonga, describes her journey of mahi raranga (Māori weaving) and

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Part of the season's apple crop, July 1907
NZ History 

Fresh up – with fruit and dairy

March 8, 2022March 23, 2022 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments apples, dairy, fruit, milk, pears

New Zealand is home to prolific and high-quality agriculture and horticulture industries. Much of what we produce is exported to

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On the tracks of archival New Zealand railways

February 14, 2022March 24, 2022 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments engine, Fell locomotive, locomotive, railway, tramway

The archive is filled with trains and railways. They share a common track through history – film and audio recording

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miners standing outside stone hut
NZ History Sound 

A Most Unusual Christmas

December 14, 2021December 17, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments

Experiences of Christmas in New Zealand differ hugely throughout the years. Where you were, and sometimes who you were meant you might not always have the classic Kiwi barbecue! Sound archivist Sarah Johnston has picked out a few of the more unusual Christmases recorded in our archives.

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Shipwrecks of Aotearoa

November 30, 2021December 23, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Akbar, disaster, Orpheus, Penguin, shipwrecks, Turakina, Wahine, Wairarapa, Wairarapa Archive

Paora Sweeney looks through the archives and finds that as an island nation, Aotearoa New Zealand has had a large

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NZ History 

Public Health in the Archive

September 22, 2021October 7, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments health, pandemic, public health

Film, television and radio have always been helpful tools for promoting public health. Between 1pm COVID lockdown briefings, we searched

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NZ History Sound 

A wavy archival journey

September 7, 2021October 13, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, Libya, Ronald Joseph Moore, U Series, World War Two

An interesting picture and intriguing recording sent David Klein on a journey of his own across the desert, time and

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An archival lesson about Tūhoto Ariki one of the last ancient Tohunga

August 24, 2021August 27, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Mt Tarawera

Through one of our archival recordings, one of our Te Arawa staff learned about the history of his iwi and

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Film NZ History 

Plas-Gwyn, the Mystery House

November 3, 2020November 5, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Architecture, Cine Society, gardens, Historic Places Trust, home movie, Jane Paul, Plas-Gwyn, Rahiwi, Wairarapa, Wairarapa Archive

The following blog was written by Jane Paul for a screening that she hosted in 2014, but for some reason it

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NZ History Sound 

Te Karanga a te Huia | The Call of the Huia

September 29, 2020December 7, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 17 Comments 1910s, 1950s, 2010s, bird, Hēnare Hāmana, huia, Jesse Mulligan, mystery, nature, New Zealand Geographic, radio, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National, Robert Batley, Sarah Johnston

By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Co-ordinator, Radio – Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) One of the most often requested items

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