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== Nuku Te whatewha == |
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In the early days of the [[Māori King movement]], the [[Te Āti Awa]] chief [[Wi Tako Ngātata]] commissioned the [[Ngāti Tūwharetoa|Tūwharetoa]] tribe to build around seven pataka (storehouses) to be observed as “pillars of the kingdom”.<ref name=”:0″>{{Cite news |date=24 September 1982 |title=Storehouse heads home |work=Evening Post}}</ref> Nuku Tewhatewha is the |
In the early days of the [[Māori King movement]], the [[Te Āti Awa]] chief [[Wi Tako Ngātata]] commissioned the [[Ngāti Tūwharetoa|Tūwharetoa]] tribe to build around seven pataka (storehouses) to be observed as “pillars of the kingdom”.<ref name=”:0″>{{Cite news |date=24 September 1982 |title=Storehouse heads home |work=Evening Post}}</ref> Nuku Tewhatewha is the . It was constructed around 1853<ref name=”:0″ /> at Naenae and carved by a nephew of Te Heu Heu.<ref name=”:1″>{{Cite news |date=24 September 1982 |title=[untitled] |work=Wairarapa Times}}</ref> In 1856, Wi Tako sold land including the pataka at Te Mako, [[Naenae]] to [[William Beetham]] and vested the pataka to his care. In 1888 Beetham’s son George moved the pataka to the garden of his home in Moturoa Street in Wellington<ref>{{Cite news |last=Christie |first=Henry |date=28 August 1934 |title=Maori names |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19340828.2.45.3 |work=Evening Post}}</ref><ref name=”:2″>{{Cite news |date=21 September 1982 |title=Historic pataka returned to HV |work=Hutt News}}</ref> In 1912 it was shifted to Brancepeth Station at Masterton and looked after by descendants of William Beetham.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wevers |first=Lydia |date=1 January 2005 |title=Beetham of Brancepeth |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/TLR20050101.2.10 |journal=Turnbull Library Record |volume=38 |pages=57}}</ref>{{efn |One source<ref>{{cite news|title=Wi Tako’s pataka to be brought back |date=7 October 1938|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19381007.2.56|work=Dominion}}</ref> states that the pataka was taken to London for a time and that the Dominion Museum tried to buy it back}} In 1982 William Beetham’s great-grandson Hugh Beetham decided that the pataka should be better protected, and offered it to the Dowse Art Gallery.<ref name=”:2″ /> It was transported over the Remutaka Hill Road by truck to a new wing in the museum.<ref name=”:2″ /> Then-director of the Dowse, James Mack, changed the name of the Dowse Art Gallery to the Dowse Art Museum mainly because of the donation of the pataka, stating that “it is the most important thing we have ever been given, and are ever likely to be given”.<ref name=”:1″ /><references /> |
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In the early days of the Māori King movement, the Te Āti Awa chief Wi Tako Ngātata commissioned the Tūwharetoa tribe to build around seven pataka (storehouses) to be observed as “pillars of the kingdom”.[1] Nuku Tewhatewha is the only one extant. It was constructed around 1853[1] at Naenae and carved by a nephew of Te Heu Heu.[2] In 1856, Wi Tako sold land including the pataka at Te Mako, Naenae to William Beetham and vested the pataka to his care. In 1888 Beetham’s son George moved the pataka to the garden of his home in Moturoa Street in Wellington[3][4] In 1912 it was shifted to Brancepeth Station at Masterton and looked after by descendants of William Beetham.[5][a] In 1982 William Beetham’s great-grandson Hugh Beetham decided that the pataka should be better protected, and offered it to the Dowse Art Gallery.[4] It was transported over the Remutaka Hill Road by truck to a new wing in the museum.[4] Then-director of the Dowse, James Mack, changed the name of the Dowse Art Gallery to the Dowse Art Museum mainly because of the donation of the pataka, stating that “it is the most important thing we have ever been given, and are ever likely to be given”.[2]
- ^ a b “Storehouse heads home”. Evening Post. 24 September 1982.
- ^ a b “[untitled]”. Wairarapa Times. 24 September 1982.
- ^ Christie, Henry (28 August 1934). “Maori names”. Evening Post.
- ^ a b c “Historic pataka returned to HV”. Hutt News. 21 September 1982.
- ^ Wevers, Lydia (1 January 2005). “Beetham of Brancepeth”. Turnbull Library Record. 38: 57.
- ^ “Wi Tako’s pataka to be brought back”. Dominion. 7 October 1938.
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