So as to formally receive, on loan, a triangular two centuries old maori canoe flax sail and “ESCORT IT HOME”, where it will go on display at the Christchurch art gallery. A Ngai Tahu spokeswoman with that fine old maori name of Chloe Cull, will sing another song on its arrival to “celebrate its homecoming”.
A gallery notice describes this as “an opportunity for all New Zealanders to grow their understanding of this important part of our nation’s cultural heritage.”
This is world-class cock. I very much doubt Air NZ will be putting on extra flights to Christchurch or there will be need to call out the riot control police to hold back the milling throngs.
That said, this is no laughing matter. It’s a constant racket costing us millions to date for a delegation of maoris to travel to various European museums to sing and look solemn while recovering shrunken maori heads.
What is never mentioned is the early 19th century maori cottage industry of tattooing captives, then killing them and shrinking their heads to flog to the museums as examples of primitive races barbarism.
Sir Bob Jones is a renowned author, columnist , property investor, and former politician, who blogs at No Punches Pulled HERE.
This is world-class cock. I very much doubt Air NZ will be putting on extra flights to Christchurch or there will be need to call out the riot control police to hold back the milling throngs.
That said, this is no laughing matter. It’s a constant racket costing us millions to date for a delegation of maoris to travel to various European museums to sing and look solemn while recovering shrunken maori heads.
What is never mentioned is the early 19th century maori cottage industry of tattooing captives, then killing them and shrinking their heads to flog to the museums as examples of primitive races barbarism.
Sir Bob Jones is a renowned author, columnist , property investor, and former politician, who blogs at No Punches Pulled HERE.
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All part of the UNDRIP process to give global exposure to Maori culture.... though Maori are not indigenous.
Throngs (I dunno the te reo for that) of maori have for decades junketed overseas to accompany heads "home". Neither the msm nor anyone else has dared cancellation and questioned. Maori all purport to be related to the heads, much as all trace maori identify as maori. Whereas which tribe they were bought from and which tribe the slave or devoured foe or foe's slave was donor must stretch the recollection conjuring abilities of the of the maori folklore industry. Presumably there is some scheme to share the trips and so avoid the possibilty of modern heads becoming available.
I always want to know to whom are they returned is it the relatives of the victim or the descendants of the person that owned (tattooed, killed and boiled) the head. How also do they know whose head is whose?
I seem to hear the faint echo of a long forgotten homily about the evil and danger of "worshipping false idols."
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