WEEK 3: RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION
My inquiry question
How can Maori art communicate stories about identity, culture and belonging and how does art create memories?
My guiding questions
• What makes a strong community?
• How does music bring people together?
My smaller research questions
• how can art show cultures and belongings?
• how can art communicate memories from the past
• how can art show your identity
My search keywords
memories
moari art
culture,belongings
identity
stories
My research findings
1. Te Papa
Type: Artwork or creative example
Link: https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/digital-museum
Important information in my own words: 1930: Sunny Memories album
1940: March 1940
1950: Outside Garden of Memories, Kaikoura
1960: Johnny Croskery photograph, album
1970: Memories Allan Gardiner and his Accordion Band
1980: Land of memories: The monument at Tuamarina
1990: New Zealand, Commemoration Medal
How this helps my inquiry: This helps me in my research because it shows how history can make memories.
Evidence type: Mostly facts
2. Te Papa
Type: Artwork or creative example
Link: https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/digital-museum
Important information in my own words: 1930: maori carvings
1940: Maori doll
1950: Motifs for industrial design based on Maori art
1960: Fallow deer farm
1970: ponsonby
1980: Aramoana
1990: Maori Bay
How this helps my inquiry: This helps me by showing all the new generations on maori art can pass down memories and history.
Evidence type: Mostly facts
3. Te Papa
Type: Website
Link: https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/digital-museum
Important information in my own words: 1930: Identity disc
1940: Personal Identity Booklet
1950: Corneolabium mandibularis Steel
1960: ANZAC Commemorative Medallion.
1970: Decorative Badge
1980: Identity card for Niborom Young
1990: Identity skirt
How this helps my inquiry: this helps me by showing how people can show their identity and to show us how identity can evolve
Evidence type: Personal experience
4. Te Papa
Type: Website
Link: https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/digital-museum
Important information in my own words: 1930 Legends of the Maori, Maori-Polynesian historical traditions
1940 Fly Book
1950 Wallpaper sample book, ‘Distinctive Wallpapers’
1960 Parson’s Book Shop, Wellington
1970 Dargaville book launch
1980 Photos taken for publication of Olive Hale’s book
1990 Exhibition Sales Book
How this helps my inquiry: This helps because it hows me in my Research how stories can evolve now days
Evidence type: Mostly facts
My reflection
One important thing I discovered was: 1930: Maori carvings. the oldest ever maori art was made in 1400s
One thing I still need to investigate is: culture,belongings
My next research step will be: How does sound travel and how can music bring smiles to people