Koko Nights Ft MahMah x Te Papa

Koko Nights - Ft MahMah x Te Papa

My name is MahMah Timoteo and I am a community co-collector on the Manalagi x Te Papa Community Co-Collection Project. Our team consists of Phylesha Brown-Acton MNZM, Allyssa Verner-Pula, and myself; we are all proud members of our Pasifika Rainbow+ / MVPFAFF+ communities here in Aotearoa.

In 2022, the Manalagi Project began working with Te Papa’s Pacific curatorial team on an exciting community co-collection project. A community co-collection project involves a team of community co-collectors connecting with their communities, to identify taonga that holds value and importance to the individual and collective histories and stories within their communities.

These taonga and the stories they carry will then be gifted to Te Papa, who will use their curatorial skills to care for the taonga. There will be financial compensation for this taonga, based on both market and emotional value. For this project, the…