Toyah Webb

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On the 11th of December 2023, a group of Te Waka Hourua activists abseiled down the interior walls of the national museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington and redacted one of the panels in the permanent exhibition Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Signs of a Nation. Originally installed in 1998, the exhibition featured two large wooden panels hanging opposite one another. One reproduced the text of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The other, the English version of the treaty drafted in the same year.