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Barry Barclay: Mana Tuturu: Maori treasures and intellectual property rights

27 Mar 2006
Courtesy of NZ Herald 24.03.06 - Reviewed by Peter Calder Barry Barclay: Mana Tuturu: Maori treasures and intellectual property rights I sat once on a boat in the Marlborough Sounds as an…

Courtesy of NZ Herald 24.03.06 - Reviewed by Peter Calder
Barry Barclay: Mana Tuturu: Maori treasures and intellectual property rights

I sat once on a boat in the Marlborough Sounds as an elderly Maori man described the history of an obtrusive garish pink house at the head of the bay, metres from the high-water mark. "He asked me if I would mind if he put up a tent," he said, gazing back into the past, for it was his family land on which the house stood. "Bit by bit, he kept on building things."

Peter Calder on Barry Barclay: Mana TuturuCourtesy of NZ Herald 24.03.06 - Reviewed by Peter Calder
Barry Barclay: Mana Tuturu: Maori treasures and intellectual property rights

I sat once on a boat in the Marlborough Sounds as an elderly Maori man described the history of an obtrusive garish pink house at the head of the bay, metres from the high-water mark. "He asked me if I would mind if he put up a tent," he said, gazing back into the past, for it was his family land on which the house stood. "Bit by bit, he kept on building things."

Peter Calder on Barry Barclay: Mana Tuturu