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Kete Aronui
Season 7
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Episode 9
Suzanne Tamaki, of Otaki, is a fibre artist whose costumes and jewellery comes from the myths and legends of the Pacific, and indigenous costumes from around the world. A founding member of the Pacific Sisters fashion collective, took part in the Sydney Biennale, her work is also a political statement about perceptions of Maori, past and present. This programme looks at her Native Eye project, based on research of late-19th Century and early-20th Century photographs and painted portraits of Maori.