Following the Moon - Pacific Lunar Calendars

In this episode of Ngako: The Collections Talk, we present printed calendars from 19th-century Rarotonga, Fiji and Samoa.
These calendars illustrate pre-colonial concepts of the lunar cycle and links between the moon and harvests, ceremonial activities, and environmental practices across time. Through these records, we question how heritage collections might help us better understand our world today.
He mihi whakawhētai - Credits
Narrators
Liam Koka'ua
Daren Kamali
Nia Vavao
Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland Council Libraries
Producer/Project Lead - Sue Berman
Production Advisory - Candy Elsmore and Teri Ta’ala
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Producer/Director - Benj Brooking
Post-Production Director - Juliana Machado
Theme Music - Claire Cowan
Collections
Auckland Council Libraries Heritage and Research collections
Book references:
Fishermen of the Pacific Islands by T.F Kennedy -line illustration by Conrad Frieboe, revised edition, 1972, Pan Pacific Books, Reed Education Press.
Ko e Fangota Fake-Tonga - Tongan Fishing, by Tupou L Pulu, black and white illustrations by Carol Hutchins, Anchorage [Alaska]: National Bilingual Materials Development Center, Rural Education, University of Alaska, c1981.
Viti: Account of a Government Mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands, Berthold Seemann, Cambridge : Macmillan & co., 1862.
Life in the Southern Isles, Rev. W Wyatt Gill, London: Religious Tract Society, 1876.
Morris’s British Birds, Vol. 4, London : George Bell, 1870.
The Naturalist Library: Ichthyology. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1835-1843.
Fishes of Fiji, Henry W. Fowler, Suva, Fiji: Government of Fiji, 1959.
Additional thanks
Heritage and Research collection teams; Library and Learning Services; Pasifika Success - Community Impact; Connected Communities, Auckland Council.
Content Creation Funds Auckland Council Libraries 2022/2023

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