1919–1923 Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions
The 1919–1923 Dominion Museum ethnological expeditions were a series of ethnological research expeditions encouraged and led by Āpirana Ngata and Te Rangihīroa, and undertaken between 1919 and 1923 with Elsdon Best, James McDonald and Johannes Andersen, to study Māori culture. Inception The idea for the expeditions came while Āpirana Ngata was revising thDictionary of the Māori Language He wrote to the Minister of Internal Affairs saying, "''It was all very well collecting and defining words in a dictionary, but that didn’t very well serve a culture that had embedded its wisdom, traditions, and history in the nuances of spoken language rather than in literature."''  He said it was better to send specialists out in the field to record the songs and oratory of Māori and to undertake, “''the ‘filming’ of hakas and pois, and of Maori village life, showing ‘tangis’, meetings, life on the cultivations and so on''”. Other research has points to Te Rangih ...
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Apirana Ngata And Peter Buck Alongside A Tukutuku Panel At Waiomatatini, 1923
Apirana is a male given name of New Zealand Māori origin meaning 'Pleasant; Kind' and may refer to: * Apirana Mahuika (1934–2015), Māori tribal leader *Āpirana Ngata (1874–1950), politician and lawyer * Api Pewhairangi (born 1992), Ireland rugby league player *Apirana Taylor Apirana Taylor (born 15 March 1955) is a New Zealand writer known for his poetry, short stories, novels and plays. Biography Born in Wellington 15 March 1955, Apirana Taylor is of Pākehā and Māori descent with affiliations to Ngāti Porou, ...