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- ‘This is the identity of our ancestors’: Little Penang’s Tee Phee on nurturing Hokkien
  - 23 Sep 2021
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  - Still from the video of Tee cooking at Little Penang, 2021.
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- The community coalition bridging the gaps in Aotearoa’s Covid-19 response
  - 21 Sep 2021
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  - A Making Histories workshop in Auckland, 2021.
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- Lockdown fieldwork – collecting new weed specimens
  - 17 Sep 2021
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  - Weed specimens drying in plant presses.
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- Tongan Language Week: Fakakoloa ‘o Aotearoa ‘aki ‘a e Ako Lelei (“Enriching Aotearoa with holistic education”)
  - 10 Sep 2021
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  - Victoria University Tongan Students Association 2021 cohort.
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- Glow-worms in permanent lockdown – long enough for evolution to show?
  - 7 Sep 2021
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  - Who doesn’t know them, the little stars of Aotearoa – glow-worms? Titiwai, their Māori name refers to lights reflected in water.
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- The mystery of Augustus Hamilton’s bird bone system
  - 31 Aug 2021
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  - Melanie Ioane-Warren, one of our Natural History interns, talks about the important collection of bird bones gathered by the late Augustus Hamilton.
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- Lomatia fraseri, an Australian tree newly weedy in New Zealand
  - 16 Aug 2021
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  - The summer sprays of white flowers of Lomatia fraseri are distinctive among the New Zealand flora.
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- What’s in a name? Keeping up to date with the taxonomy of Philippine land snails
  - 12 Aug 2021
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  - A drawer full of land snail shells from the Philippines before being databased into our collection and repacked in state-of-the-art boxes.
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- The Cook Islands language of kopu tangata (family)
  - 6 Aug 2021
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  - Applied arts lecturer Tuaine-Nurse Robati discusses the meanings of the words Cook Islanders use to talk about immediate family and the wider extended family.Read more The post The Cook Islands language of kopu tangata (family) appeared first on Te Papa’s Blog.
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- Exploring Asian Aotearoa’s diverse cultures through languages
  - 28 Jul 2021
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  - Shijia Chen interviews Ya-Wen Ho at Victoria University of Wellington, 2021.
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- 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour – Cardboard and clown suits
  - 19 Jul 2021
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  - Forty years ago, Aotearoa New Zealand erupted into violent protests when the South African Springbok rugby team toured the country from July to September 1981.
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- The 100 Year Moth Project: Spotting species in the sanctuary
  - 16 Jul 2021
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  - One hundred years ago, Wellington naturalist George Hudson walked the forest near his home – now Zealandia wildlife sanctuary – in search of fascinating New Zealand insects.
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- Otintaai: The Rising Sun and the I-Kiribati climate change warrior
  - 12 Jul 2021
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  - This year for Kiribati Language Week 2021 (11–17 July) we put the spotlight on the recent acquisition, Otintaai, a female I-Kiribati climate change warrior. Curator Rachel Yates introduces the master weavers and some of their speeches from the welcoming ceremony in May 2021. Read more The post Otintaai: The Rising Sun and the I-Kiribati climate change warrior appeared first on Te Papa’s Blog.
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- The Solomon Islands myth of Tiola and the origin story of nguzunguzu
  - 9 Jul 2021
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  - The following is a kustom stori of the Roviana people of the Western Solomon Islands; the story of Tiola, a banara (chief) in Solomon Islands mythology and the origin of the nguzunguzu, the prow figureheads used by the islands’ tribes.Read more The post The Solomon Islands myth of Tiola and the origin story of nguzunguzu appeared first on Te Papa’s Blog.
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- Feathermania: Fashion to Die For
  - 8 Jul 2021
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  - This month we opened a mini-exhibition called Feathermania: Fashion to Die For based on one of the chapters in Senior Curator New Zealand Histories and Cultures Claire Regnault’s recent book, Dressed: Fashionable Dress in Aotearoa New Zealand from 1840 to 1910.
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- Duck Tales: unveiling the ecology of the extinct Chatham Island duck
  - 28 Jun 2021
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  - Curators Rodrigo Salvador and Alan Tennyson, working with colleagues from GNS Science and the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), used chemical analysis on the sub-fossil bones of this extinct duck to determine how it lived. Here they describe what they found.Read more The post Duck Tales: unveiling the ecology of the extinct Chatham Island duck appeared first on Te Papa’s Blog.
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- Te Papa’s DNA lab celebrates its fifth anniversary
  - 23 Jun 2021
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  - Corybas vitreus from New Zealand.
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- The final destination for well-travelled eggs
  - 20 Jun 2021
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  - Over the course of many years, a tidy collection of bird eggs has made its way across the world.
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- Extinct snail Chilonopsis melanoides – from the Atlantic to Aotearoa
  - 14 Jun 2021
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  - While rummaging through cabinets, Curator Invertebrates Rodrigo Salvador found a two-centimetre treasure: the shell of an extinct snail from Saint Helena. Here he talks about the ecology of Saint Helena and how the snail ended up in a museum in New Zealand.Read more The post Extinct snail Chilonopsis melanoides – from the Atlantic to Aotearoa appeared first on Te Papa’s Blog.
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- Is the genetic integrity of the world’s rarest kiwi at risk from hybridisation?
  - 8 Jun 2021
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  - A male Little Spotted Kiwi X Rowi hybrid.
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- Searching for rare forget-me-nots with North Island iwi
  - 4 Jun 2021
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  - The team on the steps of the Maungapohatu marae: Kerry, Heidi, Karen, Sarah, Willie, Atamira, Antony, Paora and Stephanie, Dec 2020.
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- Extreme botany: Southern summer is not for the faint of heart
  - 31 May 2021
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  - Antony Kusabs and David Lyttle pressing plants in the snow near End Peak.
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- What is the real scientific name for great spotted kiwi?
  - 26 May 2021
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  - Great spotted kiwi, Apteryx maxima, collected 23 December 1981, near Charleston, Buller County, New Zealand.
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- Little-known lives: Rotumans in 19th-century Aotearoa New Zealand
  - 24 May 2021
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  - To mark the recent Rotuman Language Week 2021, Senior Curator Pacific Histories and Cultures Sean Mallon shares two rare stories of Rotuman travellers who found their way to New Zealand in the early 1800s, and how a contemporary Rotuman artist has remembered one of them.Read more The post Little-known lives: Rotumans in 19th-century Aotearoa New Zealand appeared first on Te Papa’s Blog.
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- Old man’s beard still hasn’t gone
  - 23 May 2021
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  - Rampant old man’s beard on a steep hillside on Mt Victoria.
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