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Ko Hūria me te Kaipuke / Hūria & the Shipwreck
Ko Tāne me ngā Kete o te Wānanga / Tāne & the Kete of Knowledge
Ko te Whakatau Nui a Willie Apiata / Willie Apiata & the Tough Decision
Te Whawhai i te Repo / The Battle in the Swamp
Kua Mau i te Hau Tonga / Seized by the Cold South Wind
Te Paea me te Waka Wairua / Te Paea & the Ghost Waka
Ko te Pakanga a ngā Manu / Battle of the Birds
Ko Tarakiuta rāua ko Tarakitai / The Tale of Tarakiuta & Tarakitai
Ko Hēni me te Pakanga ki Pukehinahina / Hēni & the Battle of Gate Pā
Te Ngarohanga o ngā Parirau o te Kiwi / How the Kiwi Lost Its Wings
Hinemoa rāua ko Tūtānekai / Hinemoa & Tūtānekai
Ko te Kaipuke Karihi-kore / The Rainbow Warrior
Ko te Kaitaka Whakaora o Ruhia / Ruhia’s Life Saving Cloak
Ko Māui me te Ika Nunui / Māui & the Big Catch
Ko Rata me ngā Tamariki a Tāne / Rata & the Children of Tane
Te Tūtakinga Kino o te Tau 1769 / The Deadly Encounter of 1769
Te Kauranga Nui a Kahe / Kahe’s Epic Swim
Ko Kupe me te Wheke Nunui / Kupe & the Giant Wheke
He Paki Taonga i a Māui
Television (Full Length Episodes) – 2019
And when Thomas died, the kaitaka was placed over his casket at his funeral. The taonga that had saved him as a child, protected him in death too.– Māui (Kahukura Royal) on the kaitaka (chiefly cloak) used to save a young Pākehā boy during the 19th century
He gave tūī white feathers — the mark of a coward. He sent pūkeko to the swamp. He took away the nest of pīpīwharauroa so he had to lay his eggs in other birds’ nests.– Māui (Kahukura Royal) punishes three bird species for not wanting to save the dying forest
It was a horrible and deadly first meeting because of misunderstandings about a different culture.– Māui (Kahukura Royal) on the first meeting between Pākehā and Māori in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa (Gisborne) in the 1700s
The idea for the series came while I was working on the Rongowhakaata iwi exhibition at Te Papa. Zak Waipara created an animation for the exhibition about the 1769 Cook encounter in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa [Gisborne]. The story was told from the perspective of iwi, which is very different to European accounts ... it made me think about our ‘untold history’ and how best to reveal it.– Creator David Brechin-Smith on what inspired him to make the series, Te Papa website
We were drawing from history and we were drawing from myth as well — and maybe the place between them.– He Paki Taonga i a Māui creator David Brechin-Smith
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