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Reference Number
Film : F3244
TANGATA WHENUA. THE SPIRITS AND THE TIMES WILL TEACH

Year
1974

  Production Company
PACIFIC FILMS

  Country
NEW ZEALAND

Duration
0:43:48

  Category
DOCUMENTARY

   
Part 1 - In Those Times: Ngakahikatea Wirihana reminisces about her early life at the time of King Mahuta.
Part 2 - MOKO: Herepo Rongo is the last woman with moko kauae in the Poihakena community. Maori elders discuss the significance of moko kauae and the role of the kuia who still have them.
Part 3 - Herepo's Place: Herepo revisits places of her youth and discusses her present life, looking after her mokopuna. She emphasises the value of land and describes how her community at Raglan lost its land to the government during the war and how the local authorities turned it into a golf course. Features Eva Rickard and family.

Features (in order of appearance): Ngakahikatea Wirihana, Waikato; Te Uira Manihera, Waikato; Herepo Rongo, Waikato; Piri Poutapu, Waikato; Rangi Ruri, Tuhoe; Te Kani Poata, Ngati Porou; Makere Hose, Waikato; Tex and Eva Rickard, the Rickard and Kereopa families, Waikato.

Credits
In order of appearance: Ngakahikatea Wirihana, Waikato; Te Uira Manihera, Waikato; Herepo Rongo, Waikato; Piri Poutapu, Waikato; Rangi Ruri, Tuhoe; Te Kani Poata, Ngati Porou; Makere Hose, Waikato; Tex and Eva Rickard, the Rickard and Kereopa families, Waikato.

Director: BARRY BARCLAY
Producer: JOHN O'SHEA
Conversations conducted by: Te Uira Manihera, Michael King,
Translations by: Te Uira Manihera, Bill Parker;
Read by: Bill Kerekere
Script: Michael King, Barry Barclay
Cameraman: Keith Hawke
Sound recordist: Craig Mcleod
Sound Miner: Don Reynolds
2nd Unit Cameraman: Rory O'shea
Assistant Cameraman: Peter Jones
Assistant Editor: Vicki quilt
Graphics: Terence Taylor
Editor: IAN JOHN
Executive Producer for NZBC: Michael Scott-Smith

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