Story: Thompson, Pauline Adele

Tuki and Huru

An exhibition poster featuring a painting in which a white man dressed in a hat and coat with breeches sits on the ground, while two Māori men with hair in buns dressed in green jackets exchange an object. The background sky looks green, a flax bush protrudes into the painting on the left, and the ground is coloured red with green swirls.

A poster for a 1997 exhibition of Pauline Thompson’s banner paintings of Tuki and Huru at Whangārei Art Museum. Tuki and Huru were two Māori men forcibly taken from the Bay of Islands to Norfolk Island in the 1790s to teach convicts flax weaving, a practice about which they knew little. 

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Emma-Jean Kelly. 'Thompson, Pauline Adele', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2023. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6t15/thompson-pauline-adele (accessed 30 May 2024)