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[Video: The video opens to show a man - Nick Turoa - standing on midway up a mountain (Maungakiekie) who is facing the camera and speaking. There is a banner with text at the bottom pf the frame which reads: ‘Nick Turoa, Tūpuna Maunga Authority Operations Manager’.]
[Nick is wearing a black Tūpuna Maunga Authority uniform with the Tūpuna Maunga logo. The logo has the words ‘Tūpuna Maunga Authority’ and a stylised mountain shape made out of woven flax next to it. The colours of the stylised mountain are light green and forest green. The words ‘Tūpuna Maunga Authority’ are white. The logo is a small embroidered one on the left side of his chest.]
[The Tūpuna Maunga Authority logo is in the upper right corner of the frame. This logo is grey and at half transparency. Soft music is in the background, which involves wind instruments such as the sound a conch shell makes. This soft background music plays throughout the whole video]
Nick: Maungakiekie was a traditional pā site. That means a fortified area.
[Video fades into an illustration of a traditional pā site. There is a banner with text at the bottom of the frame which reads: ‘Conceptual reconstruction of Maungakiekie Pā site’ with the image credits reading ‘Image: Tāmaki Paenga Hira / Auckland War Memorial Museum. Gaskin, Chris (1995) Maungakiekie.’
The image shows the traditional Māori settlement at Maungakiekie with housing, communal areas, marae. The village is fortified with palisades (fences made from wooden stakes) and trenches.]
Nick: inside that area on these tūpapa, these terraces, there would likely have been gardens, houses and the like.
[The audio of Nick’s voice plays while the video shows a focus on the village area of the pā, and then focuses on the fortification area of the pā. While Nick is talking, the frame shows different terraced areas of Maungakiekie]
Nick: Fortifications, palisade – large fences, if you like, would have surrounded particular terraces along this maunga and there would have been whare, storage pits for kai called Rua and yeah, I guess it would have been teaming with life. Loads and loads of people.
[the video goes back to the opening scene, where Nick is standing Maungakiekie and talking to the camera]
Nick: The maunga are sites of spiritual significance
[video pans across a basin on Maungakiekie. There is an obelisk at the top of Maungakiekie which is in view in these shots]
Nick: When we visit and enjoy these places, it’s really important to keep that in regard.
[video shows the obelisk at the top of Maungakiekie and the terraced land rolling down the side of the maunga]
Nick: It’s kind of like visiting the Sistine Chapel or Stonehenge and the like.
[the video goes back to the opening scene, where Nick is standing Maungakiekie and talking to the camera]
Nick: So, it really comes down to how you respect the maunga.
[video fades into a white background and the Tūpuna Maunga Authority logo slowly appears in the centre of the screen, first with the animated weaving of the mountain shape. The colours of the stylised mountain is again in light green and forest green. The words of the logo ‘Tūpuna Maunga Authority’ slowly appear in black next to the imagery of the logo.]