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Taonga: Treasures Of Our Past The Bone Collector
Season 1 , Episode 10The pillaging of sacred Māori burial grounds for treasure was a dangerous undertaking that almost cost Austrian collector Andreas Rieshek his life. -
Taonga: Treasures Of Our Past Ngataua Omahuru - The Lost Boy
Season 1 , Episode 9Ngataua Omahuru: A five-year-old Māori child wrenched from a world of armed conflict finds himself plunged into an alien European world of privilege, to become the adopted son of a New Zealand PM. -
Taonga: Treasures Of Our Past The Sorcerer and the Saint
Season 1 , Episode 7Amidst one of New Zealand's most violent volcanic eruptions, Te Paea Hinerangi - known to many as Guide Sophia - would emerge a tower of strength and courage for the survivors. -
Taonga: Treasures Of Our Past Penetito Hawea
Season 1 , Episode 8In the late 1860s, Māori teenager Penetito Hawea was implicated in one of Aotearoa's most sensational murders - the ritual killing of Anglican minister Karl Volkner. -
Taonga: Treasures Of Our Past Sir Maui Pomare - First Maori Doctor
Season 1 , Episode 6Sir Maui Pomare: New Zealand's first Maori doctor fought for the very survival of his people, a race that many believed was doomed to extinction. -
Taonga: Treasures Of Our Past Hetty Idiens - Piracy In The Pacific
Season 1 , Episode 5A routine boat trip from the Chatham Islands to Christchurch in 1940 turns into a terrifying 52 days of captivity on a German naval vessel for Hetty Idiens and her whanau. -
Taonga: Treasures Of Our Past A Traitors Tale - Lucy Lord
Season 1 , Episode 4Branded as a traitor and spy, Lucy Lord guided British troops into hostile territory where the enemy were her own hapu. -
Taonga: Treasures Of Our Past Arapeta Awatere - A Soldiers Story
Season 1 , Episode 3Arapeta Awatere was a distinguished Māori leader - so why did he spend his last years in Mt Eden Prison, convicted of murder? -
Taonga: Treasures Of Our Past Te Rangitopeora - The Warrior Princess
Season 1 , Episode 2Profiles Te Rangitopeora - a fearsome warrior who fought in battle beside her uncle, the mighty Te Rauparaha. -
Taonga: Treasures Of Our Past Till Death Do Us Part
Season 1 , Episode 1Features Oha and Albie Bennett's incredible tale of two coins, a soldier's passion and one woman's faith that would never die.
