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Talks on The Rocks - Maori pounamu
When: 
Fri 5 Feb 2010
Presented by: 
The Rocks Discovery Museum
Contact person for event: 
Leonie Smallwood
Announcement type: 
Lecture
Hear Dion Peita, collections coordinator at the Australian Museum, talk about the Maori pounamu (greenstone) earring/pendant recovered from The Rocks, Cumberland Street dig site in 1994. Dion, a direct descendant of the Tainui and Te Rarawa tribal confederations in Aotearoa, New Zealand, will also talk about the ceremony performed to lift the tapu before it was put on display in The Rocks Discovery Museum. Students from Te Kura Ataarargi Poihaakena will perform waiata (song).
Open: 
12:00pm
12:30pm
Venue: 
The Rocks Discovery Museum
Kendall Lane (enter via Argyle Street)
The Rocks, NSW, 2000
Australia
See map: Google Maps
Contact phone: 
02 9240 8680
Cost: 
Free
Booking reccommended.
Background: Album P. R. Nouveautes 1937-1938 [sample book], reproduced courtesy Historic Houses Trust NSW