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• Wearable Art

  Taking art off the wall and onto the moving bodyTM in rural Nelson in 1987 led to the establishment of one of New Zealand's premier cultural extravaganzas that...

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• Marlborough Aviation

  Imagine the excitement in August, 1920 when Captain Euan Dickson touched down in his Avro 504K, D6243 on a Dillon's Point (Blenheim) farm. He was en route from...

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• Maori and Whaling

  Ancient archaeological finds in Te Tau Ihu include whale tooth pendants, whalebone amulets and other adornments, and simulated whale teeth made from local serpentine. It is not clear whether...

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• Maori and Business

  Maori started trading with Europeans from the late 18th Century:  with Cook’s crews in the 1770s, Bellingshausen’s Russian expedition in 1820, D'Urville’s officers and men in 1827, and whalers and sealers in the 1820s and...

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• What’s in a name – Wakatu or Whakatu?

  Many Maori names of localities and landscape features are no longer known, and where they have been preserved, the reason for the name may have disappeared in the...

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