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IWRI
April 30, 2013
IWRI Travels to Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand)
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- Māori children performing Kapa haka (dance) in Māori regalia at a regional competition.
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- Pounamu Stone (Greenstone), a sacred healing stone of Aotearoa.
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- Painting of the female guardian spirit, Hineteiwaiwa, holding a woman giving birth, by the artist Robyn Kahukiwa. She wears a tiki, which is said in one tribal tradition to have been given to her by Tane to assist with conception. Behind her are Hine-Korako and Rona-Whakamau-Tai, who have important associations with birth in Māori tradition. Source: Ms. Christine Waitai-Rapana.
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- Cultural sharing with Māori friends and IWRI Native American research partners.
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- Weaving flax, an important plant to Māori. This is an activity Māori never do solo. Done with family and friends, it brings people together with a shared purpose.
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- Sunrise at Pakowhai Marae- Gisborne, New Zealand
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- Weaving flax, an important plant to Māori. This is an activity Māori never do solo. Done with family and friends, it brings people together with a shared purpose.
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- IWRI and friends ready to go to the International Network of Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development Conference in Brisbane, Australia.
