This month Real Gold focuses on Matariki 2019.
In this session Sue Berman talks with Heritage and Research Outreach coordinator Zoe Colling about the Matariki themed content featured in the Real Gold case in the Heritage Collections reading room Level 2 Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero | Central City Library.
The center of the case shows the Matariki Festival 2019 booklet that displays information about Waikato-Tainui - the iwi manaaki hosts of Te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Council's 2019 Matariki Festival.
In this podcast Zoe shares a Waikato-Tainui pūrākau related to Karanga-aa-Hape. This ridge site known now as Karangahape Road is captured in the early glass plate photograph on display by Henry Winkelmann.
Also on display is an image of carvings from Kiingitanga master carver Piri Poutapu, sited on a hill known as Pukekaaroa and captured by digital photographer Brian Cairns (2008)
Henry Winkelmann. Views of Rangitoto looking east from Birkenhead towards Bayswater, 20 June 1904. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections.
https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/34977/rec/5
Henry Winkelmann. Views of Karangahape Road looking south west from Partington's Windmill, 8 October 1923. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections, 1-W417.
http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll
Brian Cairns. Totara at Pukekaaroa, surrounded by carvings from Piri Poutapu. 6 Mar 2008. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections, 1477-233
http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll
Image Credit: www.matarikifestival.org.nz
