TE PAPAPUNI
Ngai Tahu trails followed the rivers and valleys. Maori trails in the South Island high country provided significant social and economic links with Pakeha, these pathways were exploited and since occupied in private agrarian Pakeha ownership.
Its shorter history of remote pastoral stations leaves behind unused, isolated dwellings and buildings. Buildings that reminisce on its more recent Pakeha occupation, the downturn of agrarian living in Te Wahi Pounamu which initially benefitted from the Maori connections made - these meeting places, dwellings, objects of more recent hunting and farming in the valley sit eerily abandoned and unused.
