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Category: Archive/Museum Visit

Posted on January 8, 2018September 1, 2020

Tapa symposium at Auckland War Memorial Museum

In an exciting new stage of the project, the barkcloth research has moved to the Pacific in recent months. In the first instalment of our travels, Andy Mills and …

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Posted on July 5, 2017September 1, 2020

Work at the Kew Archives is Producing Some Fascinating Insights

Recently I spent three very stimulating weeks working with our project Co-Investigator Mark Nesbitt and his colleagues at our primary UK partner institution, the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. …

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Posted on June 26, 2017September 1, 2020

Special Research Visit from Ngaa Kitai Taria Pureariki and Dr Michaela Appel

Last week the Barckloth Conservation Lab was pleased to receive a visit from Dr Michaela Appel, Curator at The Museum Fünf Kontinente and Ngaa Kitai Taria Pureariki, from Aitutaki …

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Posted on June 19, 2017September 1, 2020

Adrienne Kaeppler Research Visit to Tonga

Adrienne Kaeppler with the Queen of Tonga, Her Majesty Nanasipau‘u, researching a Tongan kupesi design board from the 1940s. It illustrates the tennis court from a group of kupesi …

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