Abstract:<p><b>This thesis focuses on two exhibitions, both staged in Dunedin, a major commercial port city in New Zealand: the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition of 1889-90 and the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition of 1925-26. The study investigates what “South Seas” meant at these two moments and how indigenous people, objects and cultures formed part of the exhibitions. The inclusion of the “South Seas” was an intentional element ingrained in both exhibitions, but it held different m… Show more
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