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What does the new Maori name for the Museum, Tamaki Paenga Hira, mean?

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What does the new Maori name for the Museum, Tamaki Paenga Hira, mean?

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Tamaki Paenga Hira means Aucklands memorial to fallen chiefs and their gathered taonga. Tamaki is Auckland, the net of Maki. Paenga is to ceremonially layout, heap together on a marae, a margin, a chiefly boundary and a reference to those fallen in battle.