Installation view, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Installation view, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

John Webber, Poedua [Poetua], daughter of Oreo, chief of Ulaietea, one of the Society Isles, 1785, oil on canvas, Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, purchased 2010.

Installation view, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker. 

‘Uhila Moe Langi Nai, Hala Kafa, 2024, ink on pepa koka’anga, six parts of 900 × 4000mm. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

‘Uhila Moe Langi Nai, Hala Kafa (detail), 2024, ink on pepa koka’anga, six parts of 900 × 4000mm. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

‘Uhila Moe Langi Nai, Hala Kafa (detail), 2024, ink on pepa koka’anga, six parts of 900 × 4000mm. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

‘Uhila Moe Langi Nai, Hala Kafa (detail), 2024, ink on pepa koka’anga, six parts of 900 × 4000mm. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

‘Uhila Moe Langi Nai, Hala Kafa (detail), 2024, ink on pepa koka’anga, six parts of 900 × 4000mm. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

‘Uhila Moe Langi Nai, Hala Kafa (detail), 2024, ink on pepa koka’anga, six parts of 900 × 4000mm. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Sue Pearson, Awas Tupuna, 2022, aute, etching ink. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view, Hina Sings, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Sue Pearson, Awas Tupuna, 2022, aute, etching ink. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view, Hina Sings, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Pauline Reynolds, Te hei no Hina, 2024, woven and plaited ’ōrā (banyan); and My Grandmother is a Tīputa, 2022, aute (paper mulberry), ’uru (breadfruit), ’ōrā tapa dyed with turmeric and nono. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view, Hina Sings, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Pauline Reynolds, Te hei no Hina, 2024, woven and plaited ’ōrā (banyan); and My Grandmother is a Tīputa, 2022, aute (paper mulberry), ’uru (breadfruit), ’ōrā tapa dyed with turmeric and nono. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view, Hina Sings, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Pauline Reynolds, Te hei no Hina (detail), 2024, woven and plaited ’ōrā (banyan); and My Grandmother is a Tīputa, 2022, aute (paper mulberry), ’uru (breadfruit), ’ōrā tapa dyed with turmeric and nono. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view, Hina Sings, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Pauline Reynolds and Sue Pearson, Hina’s Granddaughters, 2022, HD video with audio projected onto tapa cloth, 10 minutes, looped. Courtesy of the artists. Installation view, Hina Sings, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Pauline Reynolds and Sue Pearson, Hina’s Granddaughters, 2022, HD video with audio projected onto tapa cloth, 10 minutes, looped. Courtesy of the artists. Installation view, Hina Sings, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Pauline Reynolds and Sue Pearson, Hina’s Granddaughters, 2022, HD video with audio projected onto tapa cloth, 10 minutes, looped, Courtesy of the artists.

Francesco Bartolozzi after Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Omai a Native of Ulaietea [Ra‘iatea], 1774, engraving, 292 × 465mm, gift of Horace Fildes, 1937; and John Hall after William Hodges, Potatow [Potatau], 1777, engraving, 187 × 233mm, bequest of Charles Rooking Carter, 1896. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Installation view, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Francesco Bartolozzi after John Webber, A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present, 1784, engraving; and John Sherwin after John Webber, A young woman of Otaheite dancing, 1784, engraving. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Purchased 2016. Installation view, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Dalani Tanahy, Niho mano (shark knife) (detail), 2021, Niho mano (tiger shark tooth), ohi‘a wood, 40 × 150 × 20mm. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Purchased 2022. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Cora-Allan, Ornate ike (tapa beater) (detail), 2021, pūriri, hiapo, pāua, kāpia ink, oil stain. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Purchased 2021. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Hinatea Colombani, Í'e (Tahitian tapa beater), 2023, wood, 40 × 40 × 375mm; and Tutua (Tahitian tapa beating anvil), 2023, wood, 569 × 125 × 105mm. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Purchased 2021. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows, Tui Emma Gillies, Sarah Vaki, Tutana Tetuanui-Peters, Bundle wrap, 2023, ngatu (Tongan tapa), a’eu pipi (perfumed Marquesan tapa). Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Sara Vaki, 2023. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023.Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Sara Vaki, Pou'u mei (Marquesan breadfruit tapa), September 2023, Mei (breadfruit), Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023.

Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Hinatea Colombani, 2023. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023.Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Hinatea Colombani, Tauāmuri (detail), 2023, ’aute (paper mulberry), mati (fuchsia), tou (Oceania walnut). Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Pauline Reynolds, 2023. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Sue Pearson, 2023. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023.Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Sue Pearson, “Said Wi Es” - Where We Are, 2023, etching ink on 'ahu, Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, commissioned 2023.

Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Dalani Tanahy, 2023. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Dalani Tanahy, Kupuna, 2023, natural pigment and cuttlefish ink wauke, Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, commissioned 2023.

Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows, 2023.Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Alexander Shaw, [Catalogue of the Different Specimens of Cloth Collected in the three Voyages of Captain Cook], 1787, tapa cloth, paper. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Gift of the Te Papa Foundation 2021. Purchased with Charles Disney Art Trust funds. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Alexander Shaw, A catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, 1787, 8 pages, 39 unnumbered mounted specimens of tapa cloth, interleaved with blank sheets of paper, 300mm. Collection of Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Council Libraries Heritage Collections. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Alexander Shaw, A catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the southern hemisphere: with a particular account of the manner of manufacturing the same in the various islands of the south seas ; partly extracted from Mr. Anderson and Reinhold Forster’s observations, and the verbal account of some of the most knowing of the navigators : with some anecdotes that happened to them among the natives. (detail),1787, 8 p., [24 ] leaves of cloth samples. Collection of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Liviana Qaranivalu, 2023. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Tui Emma Gillies, 2023. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Tui Emma Gillies, Feke, 2023, mixed media and natural pigment on ngatu sphere, Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, commissioned 2023.

Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Cora-Allan, 2023. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Cora-Allan, Past, 2023, kāpia ink hiapo, Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, commissioned 2023.

Cora-Allan, Present, 2023, kāpia ink hiapo, Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, commissioned 2023.

Doron Semu, 2023. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Doron Semu, 2023. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Doron Semu, Nike, (Fa’a masina), 2023, spray painted siapo, Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, commissioned 2023.

Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Nikau Hindin, 2023. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Commissioned 2023. Installation view, ’Ahu: Ngā Wairua o Hina, Vaiei Tupuna, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024. Photo: Ted Whitaker.