Curating Pacific Documentary Heritage & Earring making with Leone Samu Tui

Samoa House Library and Leone Samu Tui are pleased to present May's edition of *curriculum* - Curating Pacific Documentary Heritage (and earring making) with Leone Samu Tui, Associate Curator, Documentary Heritage (Pacific Collections), Tamaki Paenga Hira, Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Leone Samu Tui (Ngāti Hāmoa, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa) is the inaugural Associate Curator of Documentary Heritage (Pacific Collections) at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. As a recent postgraduate student in Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland, her research considered the concept of Teu le Vā in developing museological praxis. From 2016 to 2019 she was a collection technician for the museum’s Pacific Collection Access Project (PCAP). Working with communities during this project informs her current work to surface and privilege community experiences and Indigenous knowledge in the Museum’s Documentary Heritage collections. This talk shares insight into a particular aspect of this curatorial work, the phases involved in acquiring taonga/measina that address gaps in the Pacific Documentary Heritage collection.

Outside of mahi, Leone is a mum, a student, and maker of polymer clay earrings. Participants will be able to make their own earring charms during the curriculum session as Leone leads the discussion.

10.30am - Introductions / Instructions

11am - Acquisitions korero + powerpoint

1pm - Break for lunch

1.30pm - Finish

SUGGESTED READING: Alice te Punga Somerville (2016). ‘”I do still have a letter”: Our sea of archives’, in Chris Andersen, and Jean M. O’Brien (eds.), Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies, Routledge, 121-127.

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