Puuraakau: He aha te koorero o teenei taonga?

1 hour programme. Up to 20 learners.

Look at artworks and taonga with connections to puuraakau – Maaori stories about atua, landforms and the naming of whenua.

Some customary narratives will be told, and we will think about the differences between western literacy and indigenous oral storytelling. Who gets to tell a story and how should it be told? What happens when you write it down? And what happens when a story loses its taonga, or vice versa?

Galleries visited in 2025 may include: The Tongue of the Dog, Te Winika and other current exhibitions.