Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 17, 2020 4:42:07 GMT 12
COMPLAINTS ABOUT MĀORI EXHIBIT NOT ADDRESSED FOR FOUR YEARS
The Canterbury Museum waited four years before it addressed complaints about its dioramas depicting Māori moa hunters.
The exhibit, the only representation of Māori in the museum, includes three dioramas with one showing a man sketching on a wall with a rock, a woman hunched over cooking and a child drinking from a container.
So it's not the voice of the indigenous people, it is not a Ngāi Tahu voice, it is not an iwi Māori voice that speaks out of those dioramas."
The exhibit was widely "detested because they portray early Māori as Neanderthals who lived in caves and had very little technology"........
www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/300035413/complaints-about-mori-exhibit-not-addressed-for-four-years
The Canterbury Museum waited four years before it addressed complaints about its dioramas depicting Māori moa hunters.
The exhibit, the only representation of Māori in the museum, includes three dioramas with one showing a man sketching on a wall with a rock, a woman hunched over cooking and a child drinking from a container.
So it's not the voice of the indigenous people, it is not a Ngāi Tahu voice, it is not an iwi Māori voice that speaks out of those dioramas."
The exhibit was widely "detested because they portray early Māori as Neanderthals who lived in caves and had very little technology"........
www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/300035413/complaints-about-mori-exhibit-not-addressed-for-four-years