Artist Moera Anderson is a fifth generation descendant of Tinorau and helped organise the exhibition in just seven days. “It has been a long time, 132 years, but we’re looking at this from a positive perspective. It shows we are kaitiaki, or guardians of the land, of the caves.
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Carver Danny Lurman using his uhi and whao, his mallet and chisel, to create a waka huia as part of the exhibition. “It shows finally we are having that relationship with the companies, the business owners [of the glowworm caves].” Anderson described it as a “marriage between business and traditional owners”.