Ongoing project Mapping the Sāmoa Collections aims to learn more about the measina Sāmoa in #TePapas collection and make them more accessible to communities. As part of the project, research assistant Alexander Gordon has been tasked with making a glossary of Sāmoan vocabulary:
"In the Sāmoa collections at Te Papa there are nearly 850 to‘i – adzes or axes – more than any other object." Read more in the blog post below: https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2022/11/25/mapping-the-samoa-collections-how-do-you-say-adze-in-samoan/?mc_cid=664f55715f&mc_eid=9039eefe18

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