Understanding Aotearoa's past through the recovery and conservation of a 15th-century canoe and its fibrework from Papanui Inlet, Otago Peninsula

IF 0.4 4区 历史学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY
Dilys Johns, S. Briden, Rachel Wesley, G. Irwin
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Abstract

When Tasman and Cook arrived in New Zealand in 1642 and 1769 respectively they both sighted double-hulled canoes ('waka') on New Zealand's coast. However, over the next 100 or so years these canoes disappeared. Fortuitously the recent rescue and conservation of a waterlogged 'waka' and fibrework assemblage on the shores of Papanui Inlet has allowed rare insight into the lives of its inhabitants nearly 550 years ago, when New Zealand's seminal migrants established themselves in the remote south of New Zealand. These discoveries reinforce traditional stories around early Maori occupation of Te Waipounamu and offer additional clarification of 'iwi' 'tribal' activities in their local environment many generations ago. Conservation of these 'taoka' 'treasures' on Otakou Marae has provided easy, continuous access for descendants of the 'waka' to their 'taoka' throughout the process and aided the development of constructive relationships for 'iwi' and conservation and archaeological agencies. Here we discuss recent fieldwork with an emphasis on conservation, cross-cultural engagement and the assemblage recovered to date, followed by comparison of the waka reported here with another discovered within the Te Runanga o Otakou 'rohe' 'territory' over 120 years ago by Elsdon Best. Imminent investigations to excavate cultural material from Papanui Inlet's actively degrading coastline are scheduled for January 2018, and the resulting environmental and archaeological information from this research will be discussed fully elsewhere.
通过对奥塔哥半岛帕帕努伊湾15世纪独木舟及其纤维的修复和保护,了解奥特亚罗亚的过去
当塔斯曼和库克分别于1642年和1769年到达新西兰时,他们都在新西兰海岸看到了双壳独木舟(waka)。然而,在接下来的100多年里,这些独木舟消失了。幸运的是,最近对帕帕努伊湾(Papanui Inlet)海岸上一个被水浸湿的“瓦卡”(waka)和纤维制品的救援和保护,让人们得以罕见地了解近550年前那里居民的生活,当时新西兰的开创性移民在新西兰遥远的南部建立了自己的家园。这些发现强化了关于早期毛利人占领怀普纳姆的传统故事,并进一步澄清了许多代以前“iwi”“部落”在当地环境中的活动。对大takou Marae上这些“taoka”“宝藏”的保护在整个过程中为“waka”的后代提供了方便、持续的访问他们的“taoka”的机会,并有助于“iwi”与保护和考古机构建立建设性的关系。在这里,我们讨论最近的野外工作,重点是保护,跨文化参与和迄今为止恢复的组合,然后将这里报道的瓦卡与120多年前由Elsdon Best在Te Runanga o Otakou“rohe”“领土”中发现的另一个瓦卡进行比较。从帕帕努伊湾正在退化的海岸线上挖掘文化材料的迫在眉睫的调查计划于2018年1月进行,从这项研究中得到的环境和考古信息将在其他地方进行充分讨论。
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