June 15, 2021
Hinemihi a tale of cooperation and survival
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The story of how New Zealand and the UK worked together to secure the return of the wharenui Hinemihi o Te Ao Tawhito will be told tonight at an Architect's Institute event in Auckland.
University of Auckland architecture Professor Anthony Hoete has been a key negotiator in the return of carvings from Hinemihi, which has been at Clendon, Earl Onslow’s Surrey estate, for the past 127 years.
Dr Hoete worked to create an alliance between the whare's legal owner, the National Trust, and its spiritual owners, Ngāti Hinemihi of Tūhourangi.
The agreement involves Hinemihi’s deteriorated carvings being sent on permanent loan to Te Wairoa, in return for others carved to the fuller, original dimensions for Hinemihi at Clendon Park.
Dr Hoete will also talk about mīmiro, a way to tension posts, – which gave wharenui and other buildings remarkable structural stability.
Tickets for the talk at Objectspace have gone but it can be watched on Zoom.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvf-6gqD8iH9WnxTpEJ79Yx8_8JvBwRuEv
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