Curator Amber Aranui has created a project to deal with this and sought the help of Victoria University’s Museum and Heritage Studies students to delve into our colonial past and attempt to reunite the treasures (taonga) with their original information.
This project ‘Acknowledging our Colonial past’ seeks to ensure that all taonga Māori collected during the time of James Hector’s directorship at the Colonial Museum have their provenance and associated information reconciled with their current ME numbers, and therefore made available to our visitors and those connected to them.
