We may go quiet for a week or so on articles so I'm going to repeat some old ones that many may not have seen. Time won't permit me the...

Rather than focus on redheaded Maori descendants living now, I've gone back to the 1800's where collections of heads, many 200 years old...

We have delayed release of actual digs and these have already begun and are now able to see the end of Kūwaha Tāwhetaana without the need...

We all know of the birdmen rocks of Rapanui, the carved rocks of Easter Island that have fascinated many for as long as the Moai have....

Around 1992 Maxine Stringer found an unusual carving in the sand hills of Pouto at the Kaipara-Hokianga coast. Noel Hilliam recovered the...

The Pitcairn Islands which comprise of Pitcairn and a low lying island called Henderson Island, Ducie Is, and Oeno Is, have revealed...

Below is a collection of 4 similar shaped pendant/amulets. The first is at Te Papa and is a well known example in bone from ....and said...

Below is a collection of photos all from Te Papa this time. They show an interesting array of pendants (Maukaki) mainly from the South...

The Canterbury Museum acquired the Frances Ryman Collection in an auction held by Webb’s auction house on Thursday 24 September 2009. The...

D'Urville Island Artefact Fig. 21 represents a human figure in soapstone from D'Urville Island. The suspension hole has been cut, not...