Melissa Manapori - Curator Cook Islands & Tahiti

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Melissa Manapori is the Senior Librarian Pacific Collections and is of Cook Island decent. In this track Melissa shares with Sue Berman something of the process for selecting the cases for the Cook Islands, she discusses the taonga selected and makes reference to the tapa story as part of the content selected for the Tahiti case. Listen to other tracks from this series: soundcloud.com/auckland-libraries/sets/waitui-atea You can visit the exhibition from 17 March - 13 September 2020 at Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero Central City Library, Level 2, Mon-Fri 9am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am -4pm.

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This episode was published on March 13, 2020.

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Melissa Manapori is the Senior Librarian Pacific Collections and is of Cook Island decent. In this track Melissa shares with Sue Berman something of the process for selecting the cases for the Cook Islands, she discusses the taonga selected and...

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