Te Rangi Hiroa (Dr Peter Buck) joined them at Koriniti. The scenes record games, dyeing and weaving, cultivation, fishing, the making of hinaki for eels, the setting of traps and divinatory rites such as niu and raurau.
Uenuku Charitable Trust chairman Aiden Gilbert said the restored film is a spectacular piece of footage. Through Treaty settlement work the Trust was building relationships with a wide range of agencies that could help advance the aspirations of Uenuku, Tamakana and Tamahaki iwi, Mr Gilbert said.
"The Taonga Māori Collection at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has a rich collection of film, television and sound archives that tell the stories of our tūpuna and whenua - they are stories about us. We want to bring these stories home for our whānau to view, because they have told us that accessing, learning and sharing our stories, history, whakapapa, knowledge and culture are some of the outcomes they seek from Treaty settlement.
"There is a lot of footage that will interest our whānau, and we are able to show only a small selection of clips next week. However, we are talking about the possibility of holding a film festival of historic footage in the future."
Excerpts from more recent television documentaries from the national archives will also be shown. Mr Gilbert said the Trust wished to thank staff at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision for their help and generosity in facilitating the screening.
Photo credit: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935 (Photographer): Making a lamprey weir at Hiruharama, on the Whanganui River. Andersen, N J : Photographs of scenes from Maori life. Ref: PAColl-1430-30. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22912256)
