Arapata Tamati Hakiwai is a New Zealand museum curator of Māori collections. He is a principal investigator with Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, a Māori research centre at University of Auckland. ^[1]

He is the current Kaihautū, or Māori leader, of Te Papa, and was the museum's acting chief executive before the appointment of Rick Ellis. ^{[2] [3]}

In 2014 Hakiwai completed a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington with a thesis on the politics of Māori tribal identity. ^[4]

Career

Hakiwai was a teacher at Wellington High School before starting work in the museum sector in 1989. ^[5]

While at Te Papa he has been involved in the repatriation of a number of Maori kōiwi tangata (human remains) from overseas institutions, and has also led a project involving the " digital repatriation" of taonga (cultural treasures). ^{[3] [5]}

Personal life

Hakiwai is of Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou and Ngāi Tahu descent. ^[1]

References

External links

• Linked-in
• Profile on the Te Papa website

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