Post #607164 by Club Nouméa on Sat, Sep 17, 2011 9:26 PM

A few weeks ago I was walking through Sylvia Park shopping mall in Auckland, when I spotted a sign:

It gave a history of the original inhabitants of that part of Auckland, along with the following information:

I turned around, and there, sure enough, marked out, was the path of the old stream that used to be an important tribal site:

The view looking in the other direction (the signboard is behind the long black bench seat):

In the floor they had affixed little markers showing reeds:

And there was a boulder with a little stone tiki atop it:

I had mixed feelings about all this. At one level, it is quite a striking way of honouring the past, but at another level I was thinking it was sad that such a site had been concreted over for a shopping mall.

CN

Toto, j'ai l'impression que nous ne sommes plus au Kansas !

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