This week we have celebrated the inaugural Tokelau Language Week
(29 October – 4 November). The theme is Ke mau ki pale o
Tokelau: Hold fast to the treasures of Tokelau. We have posted a
blog each day highlighting cultural treasures from Tokelau in Te
Papa’s collections. Today, I want to share with you a photograph
that relates to our second post this week about the Mafutaga
Tupulaga Tokelau from Porirua. I recalled spotting it on a
Facebook friends post several months ago so I invited him to
share his memories of the photograph in this blog as it relates
to this small collection presented to the museum in the 1986. My
thanks to Kevin Sesale Setefano for sharing the photograph and
the words below. Faka fetai! Malo ni Tokelau, This is a photo
taken at the Iulio and Silila Setefano family home in Warspite
Avenue, Porirua, back in 1986 where a Tokelau project workshop
programme was held over the duration of a month. The Tokelau
government funded an art and craft project development by
Alepano Savelio involving t