Kōrero: Cultural go-betweens

Tuki's 1793 map of New Zealand

Cultural go-betweens can provide entirely new ways of seeing places and concepts. This unfamiliar version of New Zealand's coastline was drawn in 1793 by the northern chief Tuki for the governor of New South Wales. It shows the world that Tuki knew, with Poenammo (the South Island) on the bottom, and Ea-hei-no-Maue (the North Island), where he lived, much larger. The double dotted line running through the North Island marks the path of the spirits of the dead to their final jumping-off place at Te Rēinga (top).

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: MapColl-CHA-2/1/9

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Mark Derby, 'Cultural go-betweens - The first cultural go-betweens', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/26785/tukis-1793-map-of-new-zealand (accessed 28 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Mark Derby, i tāngia i te 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 22 May 2018