N.Z. past exhibited
By
ANABRIGHT HAY
Canterbury Museum’s 1990 exhibition, “Unearthing New Zealand,” enables visitors to dig deep into this country’s past and discover some of the artefacts left during 1000 years of human occupation.
The Governor-General, Sir Paul Reeves, opened the exhibition yesterday and launched the book of the same name written by the director of the Canterbury Museum, Mr Michael Trotter, and the curator of sub-fossil birds, Mrs Beverley McCulloch.
Both the book and the exhibition depict the activities and articles of people in New Zealand from the time of the ancestors of the tangata whenua about 1000 years ago to the early period of European settlement. Archaeological evidence has enabled the story of this country’s prehistory to be reconstructed in a series of exhibition cameos showing how New Zealand’s early inhabitants lived, worked, ate, dressed, socialised, died and were buried. A number of books, maps, domestic items and pictures show how Europeans fitted into this landscape after their arrival by ship.
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Press, 13 December 1989, Page 14
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