Jason Hall: 1839 Exchanges

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Jason Hall: 1839 Exchanges

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When:

Wed 24 Aug ’11, 10:00am–4:00pm
Thu 25 Aug ’11, 10:00am–4:00pm
Fri 26 Aug ’11, 10:00am–4:00pm
Sat 27 Aug ’11, 10:00am–4:00pm
Sun 28 Aug ’11, 1:30pm–4:00pm

Where: Tairawhiti Museum, Stout St, Gisborne Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

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  • Admission: Free

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Since 1998 Jason Hall’s jewellery has been asking questions about what it means to be Pakeha. 1839 Exchanges: Jewellery by Jason Hall is an exhibition about jewellery, identity and cultural exchange.

It features a series of amulets created for Frederick Edward Maning, an Irishman who arrived in Aotearoa in 1833 and became a trader. Maning is a well known Pakeha Maori, a term that refers to Europeans who lived as Maori in the early phase of colonisation. Maning, who initially advised Maori not to sign the Treaty of Waitangi, later became a land court judge in the 1860s, and a member of the European colonial gentry.

Most cultures have made amulets, in which part of what is feared (commonly a tooth or claw) is worn to protect the wearer from harm. Hall’s jewellery uses the amulet to talk about the anxieties of being Pakeha. These are ambiguous objects – it is not always clear who is protected by Hall’s amulets, or what terrors they are intended to fight off.

Damian Skinner, curator

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