Evie O'Brien is Te Kura Toroa, chief executive of Te Wananga o Aotearoa which recently signed an agreement with Te Maori Manaaki Taonga Trust and Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University. It will create curatorial residences for Maori at the museum later this year which Evie O'Brien says will last for three months and allow students to "access our taonga" at the museum and be supported by some of the leading curators working there.

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