Abstract:
Repacking the Past, ongoing cataloguing project. Cataloguing archaeological material excavated from Te Mimi o Tū Te Rakiwhānoa (Fiordland coastal and marine area) 1968-72. The cataloguing of 25 boxes from the archives of Southland Museum and Art Gallery Niho o Te Taniwha (SMAG). The cataloguing involves contracting of Vicki Lenihan and Lori Bowers for 160 hours to process, sort, photograph and name basic elements / material applicable for the current catalogue at SMAG using their museum database called Vernon. The number of hours worked on the collection during the ST PAUL St phase has been set by the limits of the current available funding spread across The University of Auckland / Alex Monteith FRDF, PBRF and ST PAUL St exhibition project budget in combination. The work added 25 boxes to the previously catalogued (Monteith, SMAG, 2016) amount of approximately 150, totalling to 175 boxes over the current and preceeding phases of work (ST PAUL St 2017 and SMAG 2016).