{"id":128,"date":"2025-05-19T01:19:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T01:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/putorino\/?p=128"},"modified":"2025-05-12T01:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T01:23:00","slug":"whakauae-research-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/putorino\/2025\/05\/19\/whakauae-research-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Whakauae Research Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Whakauae Research team includes Utiku Potaka (Project Lead), Ben Barton, Luke Enoka and summer student, Liam Barclay (Ng\u0101ti Hauiti, Ng\u0101 Wairiki Ng\u0101ti Apa, Te \u0100ti Haunui \u0101 P\u0101p\u0101rangi).&nbsp; The team are tasked with collecting Ng\u0101ti Hauiti k\u014drero tuku iho (traditional tribal narratives) and historical whakaahua (images) of the central Rangit\u012bkei River valley to describe the tribal m\u0101tauranga (knowledge) surrounding the event, people and place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In October 2024, Ben created a comprehensive index of historical material and information required for the project.&nbsp; This also served as the framework for the digital document bank of primary source material, including M\u0101ori Land Court Minute books, manuscripts, images and maps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In November 2024, Liam began transcribing handwritten M\u0101ori Land Court minute books, which contain material evidence related to the project.&nbsp; This was a challenging process that required patience, skill, and overall, a keen interest in the evidence.&nbsp; The first part of the transcribing is complete, which focused on \u2018evidence in chief\u2019 of witnesses.&nbsp; During his time, he has been able to find records of burials for two of Hauiti&#8217;s children, an unexpected treasure found among the minute books he spent reading over the summer. &nbsp;Liam said \u201cthe exciting thing about these kinds of discoveries, and where this may link to the broader aspirations of Whakauae, is that these findings might be found in the tari but eventually shared in the wharepuni\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Whakauae team also went on a h\u012bkoi (field trip) into the Rangit\u012bkei River valley to connect sites recorded in the minute books with the actual places.\u00a0 This process of \u2018takahia te whenua\u2019 or tramping the land helped give context to the material being transcribed and will eventually add to the m\u0101tauranga being compiled.\u00a0 This h\u012bkoi was an opportunity to w\u0101nanga about Ng\u0101ti Hauiti m\u0101tauranga and sites of significance in the P\u016bt\u014drino vicinity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/putorino\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2025\/05\/Figure-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129\" width=\"599\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/putorino\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2025\/05\/Figure-8.jpg 601w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/putorino\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2025\/05\/Figure-8-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Whakauae Research Team: Liam Barclay, Luke Enoka, Utiku Potaka on a site visit in the Rangit\u012bkei <br>River valley.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Whakauae Research team includes Utiku Potaka (Project Lead), Ben Barton, Luke Enoka and summer student, Liam Barclay (Ng\u0101ti Hauiti, Ng\u0101 Wairiki Ng\u0101ti Apa, Te \u0100ti Haunui \u0101 P\u0101p\u0101rangi).&nbsp; The team are tasked with collecting Ng\u0101ti Hauiti k\u014drero tuku iho (traditional tribal narratives) and historical whakaahua (images) of the central Rangit\u012bkei River valley to describe &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/putorino\/2025\/05\/19\/whakauae-research-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whakauae Research Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/putorino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/putorino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/putorino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/putorino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/putorino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/putorino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/putorino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/putorino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/putorino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/putorino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}