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This little book tells a big
story of Hinemihi, a talking
building. The tale she tells won’t
be to everyone’s liking. But
then having been shopped and
shipped, chopped and chipped,
her life hasn’t exactly been an
English bed of roses. This is a
story of the politics of power
that a grass hut ignited. And so
this is, amongst others, Dean’s
book too. This is:
decolonising conservation!

2016.
2015.
2012.
2010.
2007.
Carvings
removed
Clandon fire
Te Maru
1st Maori
architecture book
Cutty Sark fire
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A long long time ago...
1985.
2006.
1995.
1979.
072hin
DecoNZtructivism
Rewi Thompson
house
Asteroids
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1953.
1940.
1915.
1893.
1892.
1886.
Everest
28th Maori
Battalion
Gallipoli
NZ women
1st to vote
Sold
Tarawera
eruption
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in a place far, far away...
1880.
1840.
1769.
1642.
1300.
Born
Treaty
signed
Captain Cook
Abel Tasman
Aotearoa
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...lived a maori chief called
Aporo Wharekaniwha and his
(sub)tribe Ngati Hinemihi.
Aa: ahuru / home
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th
ne
T
b
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In
e middle of their
island was a lake and
xt to the lake was
a village called
e Wairoa. My
irthplace.
Ee: ewe/ birthplace
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10
My canoe is
My island is
My tribe is
My subtribe is
My community is
My sea is
My mountain is
My name is

Te Arawa.
Te Ika A Maui.
Ngati Tarawhai.
Ngati Hinemihi.
Te Wairoa.
Rotokakahi.
Tarawera.
Hinemihi O te Ao Tawhito*.
Hh: hua / name * Hinemihi of the Old World
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Chief Aporo wanted
me to be a singer
and to entertain
the tourists with
my dancing. My
legacy is today
apparent in
RotoVegas*: a
small town of
motels
and neon
lights.
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Ii: iwi / tribe *Rotorua

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One June day,
in 1886, the
mountain tired
of my singing
and turned my
village into ash.
I gave shelter
to my carver,
Tene Waitere.
Kk: kino/ ruin
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Six years later, the Guv’nor
appeared looking for an exotic
souvenir to take home and
place next to his artificial lake.
With one gaze I was transformed
into a garden gnome.
‘Sold’ for £50; receipt provided.

Mm: manatunga / souvenir
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koruru /
tekoteko
kakau
manuae
epa / tukutuku
maihi
pare
amo
kaho / tarawa
tuanui
pare
taorangi
poutouaroaro
rauwhare
wara
apai
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I was “easily dismantled and
transported”* but it seems I
was not so easy to
re-assemble.
Nn: ngakungaku / dismantled
*www.nationaltrust.org.uk
heke
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I was now voyaging against the
oceanic currents once believed
to have brought a Great Fleet of
canoes to NZ. Recently, I
realised that this creation myth
was spun by ethnographers to
reconcile conflicting tribal
traditions. The grass hut as
noble savage.
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NG ng: nga kaumoana / voyager

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Oo: ora / safe *misquoted from Macaulay’s New Zealander (1840)

Some traveller from NZ shall
take her stand on a broken arch
of London Bridge to sketch the
ruins of St Paul’s.* I arrived in
Britain paradoxically from the
New World as NZ was considered
a successor to the Empire
which was in decline.
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Hidden beneath foliage, obscured
in shadow, I am the subservient
hut to the masterful House*.
*this image of Clandon House has been stretched. Still, better than chopped.

The recent fire to this Palladian
Palace is really a mere smokescreen
to deprioritise me.
Pp: pokehe / misapprehend
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Mike* said that the Maori
comportment of ‘speaking to
architecture’ is alien to Western
thinking. Yet talking to
buildings arises because a
house is not like an ancestor, it
is the ancestor. I, Hinemihi, am a
talking building, because,
I, Hinemihi, am living heritage.

Rr: reo / speech
*Dr Michael Linzey “Speaking To and Talking About Maori Architecture”
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When I look at myself, I am
reminded of Buster Keaton’s film
‘One Week’. A 1920s black+white,
the story is of a couple who receive
a DIY house that can be
‘easily’ built in 7 days. Except it
couldn’t, and most houses can’t.
Today I am 48sqm; the Conservateur
thought I was 64sqm; yet
if you looked at my old photos
you can see I was 91sqm. Like
the Bride of Frankenstein, I have
Tt: tarepa / incomplete been cut in half :(
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I fell into the embrace of Te
Maru. They are my guardians,
my pukinga.

Uu: ururoa / helper
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I have had my portrait painted
by numbers. Dean tells me that
my archaeology of colour has
seen me dressed to please the
tourists: a native natural girl, in
earthy colours. Fifty shades of
brown. Yet beneath this costume
I actually embraced the
bolder artificial colours of
orange and blue that were in
fashion at the time.

Ww: whakauna / colours
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All I want to do is to be able to
eat, sleep, poo-poo. To offer
the hospitality of a cup of tea.
Like a normal house.
Why cannot a grass hut offer
the hospitality of a Palladian
palace? The politics of power
has reduced this heritage
project to: a toilet.
Not The End.
The Beginning.
WH wh: whakahaura / reborn
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Page Maori English
Aa
Ee
Hh
Ii
Kk
Mm
Nn
NG ng
Oo
Pp
Rr
Tt
Uu
Ww
Wh
Ahuru
Ewe
Hua
Iwi
Kino
Manatunga
Ngakungaku
Ngakaumoana
Ora
Pokehe
Reo
Tarepa
Ururoa
Whakauna
Whakahaura
Home
Birthplace
Name
Tribe
Ruin
Souvenir
Dismantled
Voyager
Safe
Misapprehend
Speech
Incomplete
Helper
Colours
Reborn
Team:
Anthony Hoete Magdalena Walek Natalia Sikora Deepthi Martinet

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