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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
Maori | 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 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.
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 will enable 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 is
partnering the gallery on this project and is providing language
services to transcribe and translate the entries in the historic Lindauer Art Gallery Māori Visitors' Book for the new website. The
site will also provide 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 will work 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 will be launched in March
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.
Lindauer Visitors Book comes to
light
Gallery News
Oct - Feb 2003/4
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography - Gottfried Lindauer
 
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