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- Title
- Moriori
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
- Collection
- NZ On Screen
- Description
This Feltex Award-winning documentary follows two grandchildren of the last full-blooded Moriori back to Rēkohu in the Chatham Islands, to rediscover their heritage. Charles and Margaret Solomon learn about 1000 years of Moriori settlement: Polynesian origins, tree carvings, and Pacifist beliefs tragically tested in 1835. Nine years before a book by Michael King and Barry Barclay's film The Feathers of Peace, this doco revised popular misconceptions about the Moriori. Wayne Tourell writes abo...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1980
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/moriori-1980
- Related subjects
- chatham islands / kopi / tree carving / karaka / tame horomoana rehe / rekohu / forensic / phillip houton / otago medical school / otago museum / lookout / margaret solomon / charles solomon / recreation / david simmons / skinner / manakau / paua / kaimoana / first contact / seal / sealers / tapu / albatross / te ati awa / nunuku / slavery / cannibalism / genocide / douglas sutton / archaeologist / village / nunuku-whenua / phil houton / kaingaroa / skirmish bay / tommy solomon / margaret hamilton / ancestors / lagoon / dendroglyph / carving / cave / patu / fishing / whangaroa / waka korari / wash-through raft / conflict / pacifism / grave / curse / hd skinner / david simmonds / limestone / hirawanu tapu / nunuku's law / subjugation / takeover / karaka tree / douglas g sutton / bristol freighter / philip houghton / graveyard / raymond solomon / fishing net / shellfish / 1979 / 1980 / waitangi general store / rawiri te puru terehou / kongenge / des[aor / despair / 1835 / 1830s / ngāti mutunga / ngāti tama / te āti awa
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