Overview
No Ngatiporou au. I tae mai ki konei tangi ai ki nga tangata
nunui o era o nga ra - o te houkuratanga o te tangata. He hanga
ahuareka ki te matakitaki te ata whakairo a te tohunga pakeha - ano
kua ara katoa mai i te mate. Me whakawhetai tatou ki te tangata
nana i pupuru nga ahua o o tatou kaumatua hei taonga mo enei ra e
tu mai nei.
I am of the Ngati Porou tribe. I have come here to lament over
the great men of other days, the people brought before us coloured
as if they were living. Pleasing to the eye is the shadow-carving
of the European artist - it is as if they had all arisen from the
dead. Thankful are we to the man who has preserved these pictures
of our elders, our old chiefs, as a treasure for the years that are
to come. (Translation from Cowan)
Apirana T. Ngata
Lindauer Art Gallery Visitors Book, 26 June, 1901
Māori / English
I te tau 2008, ka whiwhi a Toi o
Tāmaki i tētahi pūtea mai i te
Pūtea Mahi Tahi ki te Hapori a Te Tari Taiwhenua, hei hanga i
te kaupapa noho ipurangi mō ngā Whakaahua Māori a Lindauer, tae atu
ki tōna Pukapuka Manuhiri. Mā te pūtea nei e taea ai e Toi o Tāmaki
tētahi pae tukutuku te hanga hei whakaatu i ngā whakaahua Māori a
Gottfried Lindauer o te rautau 19 nō ngā kohinga o Aotearoa, me te
Pukapuka Manuhiri o taua wā.
He kaupapa tēnei ka mahia ngātahitia e Toi o Tāmaki me Te Taura Whiri i te Reo
Māori, ā ko Te Taura Whiri kei te patopato, kei te whakamāori i
ngā kōrero ake o te Pukapuka Manuhiri o te Whakaaturanga Toi a
Lindauer, mō te pae tukutuku hou. Ka noho mai anō ki te pae
tukutuku tētahi wāhanga hei whakatakoto whakaaro mā te iwi mō te
hunga i whakaahuatia.
Ko te whāinga o te pae tukutuku mō Lindauer ko te whakawātea i
ngā whakaahua Māori a te tangata nei i te taha o ngā whakaaro i
puta i tērā atu rautau, me ngā whakaaro o ēnei rā. Ka mahi tahi a
Toi o Tāmaki ki ngā aitanga me te hapori whānui e takoto ai he
putunga kōrero mō ngā whakaahua Māori a Lindauer, otirā e kitea ai
te hira o te
Kohinga a Partridge i Tāmaki-makau-rau. Ka whakaterea te pae
tukutuku ā te Paengawhāwā Pipiri 2010, ā ko te tūmanako ka puta he
painga ki ngā whakatipuranga katoa o Aotearoa, kia whakaakona ai,
kia whakaputa whakaaro ai te hunga e kaingākau ana ki ngā mahi a
Lindauer, otirā ki te ao Māori.
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In 2008 the Gallery received
a grant from the
Department of Internal Affairs' Community Partnership Fund to
embark on the Lindauer Māori Portraits and Visitors' Book Online
Project. The grant enabled the Gallery to develop a website to
highlight Gottfried Lindauer's 19th century portraits of Māori from
New Zealand collections and the accompanying
Visitors' Books from the period.
The Māori Language
Commission Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Maori partnered with the
Gallery on this project to provide language services to transcribe
and translate the entries in the historic Lindauer Art Gallery
Māori Visitors' Book for the new website. The site also provides an
online forum for the sharing of information about the portrait
sitters.
The goal of the Lindauer Online kaupapa is to make accessible
Lindauer's portraits of Māori, alongside both historic and
contemporary responses to the portraits. The Gallery has worked
collaboratively with descendants and the wider community to provide
a central repository of information on Lindauer's Māori portraits,
in particular the significance of Auckland's
Partridge Collection. The website was launched in June 2010 and
is intended to benefit all generations of New Zealanders and to
actively educate and respond to the growing global interest in
Lindauer and things Māori.
AWARDS
Best Diversity Initiative 2010,
Australia and New Zealand Internet Best Practice Awards
Special Technology and
Innovation Award, New Zealand Museum Awards 2011
BEHIND THE BRUSH
Auckland Art Gallery's portraits of Māori by Gottfried Lindauer
are the subject of a documentary series screening on Māori
Television from 19 March 2013. Find out
more about Behind the Brush.