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Kāi Tahu

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DescriptionThis collection includes taoka (or taonga) relating to Kāi Tahu whānui (or Ngāi Tahu whānui) from across the Hocken Collections.
Included are historical photographs of Kāi Tahu people and places, and a selection of art works by Kāi Tahu artists. A number of photographs are from Dr Hocken’s own collection, reflecting his interest in Māori history. Other digitised taoka are from the collections of Te Rūnanga o Moeraki, George Craig Thomson (who had a strong interest in the history of Otago prior to 1848), and Magda Wallscott (Kāi Tahu, and a founding member of the Māori Women’s Welfare League).
Hocken Collections staff are working in collaboration with local Papatipu Rūnaka and the Ngāi Tahu Archive Team to digitise further taoka Kāi Tahu held by the Hocken Collections. Future additions to the Kāi Tahu digital collection include the papers of ethnographer and historian James Herries Beattie (1881-1972), and Sir Frederick Revans Chapman (1849-1936).
History / BiographyKāi Tahu whānui (or Ngāi Tahu whānui) is the collective term used to describe the individuals who descend from the primary tribal groups described as Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe and Kāi Tahu. Members of Kāi Tahu whānui can trace their ancestry back to a census of Ngāi Tahu kaumātua alive in 1848.
Through a series of ten land purchases (between the years 1844 and 1864), the majority of Kāi Tahu whānui’s takiwā (tribal territory) in Te Waipounamu (the South Island of New Zealand) was acquired by the Crown. The Crown failed to honour their obligations stipulated in these land purchases, however, and generations of Kāi Tahu whānui were ostracised from their land, language, and traditional practices.
In 1986, Henare Rakiihia Tau submitted Te Kerēme, the Ngāi Tahu Claim (WAI 27) to the Waitangi Tribunal on behalf of the Ngaitahu Maori Trust Board. Waitangi Tribunal hearings took place from 1987 to 1989. Four separate Waitangi Tribunal reports relating to Ngāi Tahu whānui were released between 1991 and 1995.
Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu was incorporated through the Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu Act 1996, formally establishing eighteen Papatipu Rūnaka (self-governing tribal councils). The Ngāi Tahu Deed of Settlement was signed in 1997, and the Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act passed in 1998. As part of the settlement of Te Kerēme, Kāi Tahu whānui received cultural and economic redress, as well as a formal apology from the Crown.
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Further taoka Kāi Tahu are held by the Ngāi Tahu Archive:
https://kareao.nz/

Ngāi Tahu Kā Huru Manu Cultural Mapping Project , and digitised maps can be found at:

https://kahurumanu.co.nz/map-stories/

See more information about Te Kerēme (the Ngāi Tahu claim) at:

https://ngaitahu.iwi.nz/ngai-tahu/te-whakataunga-celebrating-te-kereme-the-ngai-tahu-claim/

Collection SummaryTaoka Kāi Tahu from across the collections

Archival Text

Photographs of sketches of Otago by John Wallis Barnicoat

Annotated issue of 'Journal of the Polynesian Society', Vol XX, No. 1

Annotated issue of 'Journal of the Polynesian Society', Vol XXI, No. 4

Annotated issue of 'Journal of the Polynesian Society', Vol XXIV, No. 3

Extract from issue of 'Journal of the Polynesian Society', Vol XXX, No. 1, relating to Teone Taare Tikao's description of mana to Herries Beattie

Extract from issue of 'Transactions of the New Zealand Institute', Vol LII, pp. 45-52, 'Southern Māori, and Greenstone'

Notes on Kāi Tahu history entitled 'Notes (not used)' written by Herries Beattie

Research notes (researcher unknown), including Karetai whakapapa

Comments on Herries Beattie's contributions to the Journal [of Polynesian Society]

Notebook including information gathered in 1920 for Otago Museum, relating to Southern Māori

Letter, 14 June 1962, from Don Matheson, to Herries Beattie, enclosing an article printed in the Forest and Bird magazine, August 1960

Notes and other papers

Diary entitled, 'Trips to Maoris'

Manuscript entitled 'Murihiku'

Manuscript entitled 'Maori place names in southern New Zealand by 'Murihiku''

'History collected to write a book about Bluff'

Manuscript entitled, 'Old Kaiapoi and the Canterbury Maori', September-October 1931

Manuscript entitled, 'Traditional lore gathered from the Maoris and Halfcasts [sic] of Murihiku, New Zealand'

Manuscripts entitled, 'South Island Maori lore; traditions taught to [Teone] Taare Tikao', parts 1-6

Manuscript entitled, 'The first white boy born in Otago, the story of T. B. Kennard'

Clippings and loose papers relating to 'A long-lost legend'

Manuscript entitled 'A long-lost legend', by 'Tuawaike'

Photocopy of the manuscript, 'A long-lost legend'

Art

[Portrait Atay, Chief of Otargo, New Zealand]

Sista I, ed 25/30

Teoti te Wahia, of Puketeraki

Matthias, native missionary at Moeraki

That grim ferryman whom poets speak of - Tainui. Kaikainui - Wai Makariri, sketched at Akaroa

Fanny Weller, Otakou

Wakaputa P. Cooper Plains. Tuawai. Port Cooper Natives

Port Cooper Natives

Map

Map of the Murihiku area including Awarua and the Mataura River, annotated 'Copied from Captain J L Stokes' Chart, 1850-1, by W.H.S. Roberts 18-11-1910'

Typewritten letter and sketch map of area near Washdyke, from Alex F.M. Paterson, 8 October 1945

Rough copy of 'Sketch plan of Native Reserve No. 12 Alfred Wills Surveyor 23 Nov 1848' copied by Herries Beattie, 26 January 1937

Rough copy of 'Native Reserve No. 14 surveyed by A. Wills 9 December 1848' copied by Herries Beattie, 26 January 1937

Sketch map of the Otago Peninsula, annotated 'W.A. Taylor, July 1934'

Sketch map entitled 'Coast East (Otago)' including place names from Tokomairiro to Tokata

Collection

W.M. Hodgkins's photograph album - P2008-066

C.C. Armstrong : Portraits of Maori women P2010-005

Video

Opening of the wharenui Tamatea at Ōtākou

Ōtākou whare rūnanga

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Iwi / HapūWaitaha (Te Waipounamu)Kāti MāmoeNgāi TahuKāi Tahu

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