Volume 4, Number 1, February 2024
Memory: Sites, Trauma and Materiality, Memoria: Trauma, Sitios y Materialidad
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The exploitation, repatriation, and memorialisation of human remains: An artist’s experiences
Abstract In recent years I have been invited by the Hokotehi Moriori Trust of Rēkohu (Chatham Islands or Wharekauri) to develop concept designs for a memorial to house the skeletal remains of repatriated karāpuna Moriori (Moriori ancestors indigenous to Rēkohu). From the second half of the nineteenth century, Moriori remains were taken from their homeland […]
Hokopanopano Ka Toi Moriori (Reigniting Moriori Arts): Memory Work on Rēkohu (Chatham Islands)
Since European discovery of Rēkohu (Chatham Islands) in 1791, the pacifist Moriori population declined rapidly as a result of introduced diseases (to which they had no immunity) and killing and enslavement by Māori iwi (tribes) from the New Zealand ‘mainland’ following their invasion in 1835. When (full-blooded) Tame Horomona Rehe—described on his headstone as the […]