Note. Rocks touched by plants, fish and humans ranging from millions of year old fossils to Lapita pottery fragments ca3000 years old, to painted kōhatu by Jo Tito and Kohana Clothier, my daughter (whakapapa traverses both forwards and backwards). Collection of the artist-writer.

Note. This I speculate to be a weight for holding an eel snare in place. I found it as a child on my family urban property, which was a dried river bed presumably a consequence of draining the Ōtautahi (Christchurch) swamp. Collection of the artist-writer.

Note. This is a carved shark with inlaid shark teeth by Randy Christian who lives on Hitiaurevareva. When I asked how the teeth were obtained, after assuming sharks might be washed up on a beach, I was informed the creative process begins with “catch the shark.” Collection of the artist-writer. Tau wood is sourced on the uninhabited Henderson Island, in early Moana history this island was a surce of highly prized red feathers due to the large poplutations of parrots living there.

Note. This kete reveals the direct heritage of making within Moana peoples cultural production, a descendancy of the wahine (women) of HMAV Bounty. Collection of the artist-writer.

Note. My father’s WW2 Morse Key – he was an operator in the Royal New Zealand Air Force and stationed on Norfolk Island, where he and my mother met. She swam into him at Emily Bay a well known and sheltered beach inside a reef that is popular with islanders. Collection of the artist-writer.

Note. This woodcut on rag paper is by islander Sue Pearson, who also grows the trees to make her own ahu (tapa). She recently relocated from Whakatāne to Norfolk Island, so needs to commence the process beginning with the trees, once more. Collection of the artist-writer.

Note. This Bounty model by Jay Warren and the Warren family indicates the degree of skill among islanders today, many of whom are third or fourth generation carvers.

Note. This Georgian writing beareau is contemporary with artefacts from HMAV Bounty – there is an item of furniture in a Hitiaurevareva household depicted in the 1820’s, that has identical footing detail. I have speculated the item of furniture depicted may have come from the Bounty, as the transportation of such a large item in the 1820’s seems unlikely, though is possible. Collection of the artist-writer.

Note. The saga of the Bounty entered into popular culture through five feature films and numerous books. Here it is as one of Royal Doulton’s Historical Ships series. Collection of the artist-writer.

Note. This whanau view is an authenticated print created in Paris in the 1830’s based on drawings made on the island in the 1820’s. Clockwise from left John Adams, George Young, Hannah Young nee Adams with child, Mauatua, and Tinafornea. All are tupuna except for Tinafornea. Collection of the artist-writer.

Note. This is a documentation image from the exhibition and a reflection of The Flower of Life can be seen in part. This is one sense of diffraction – looking through one to another. Collection of the artist-writer.

Note. My parents wedding photo in 1948 in Tāmaki Makaurau. On the right is my Auntie Alma, who gave me the nickname Pasha when I was a child. Again The Flower of Life is reflected in the documentary photo. Collection of the artist-writer.