Tūhoe moumou kai - We give you our stories
Tūhoe moumou taonga - We give you our treasures
Tūhoe moumou tangata ki te Pō - We give you our lives
The iwi exhibition partnership with Ngāi Tūhoe, the third in the programme, closed at Te Papa on Saturday 1 November 2003. The closing ceremony was attended by 600 people, mainly from Ngāi Tūhoe. Ngāi Tūhoe contributed to the exhibition content, narratives, and taonga; and schools within the Ngāi Tūhoe region contributed material relevant to the iwi in Te Huka ā Tai, one of Te Papa’s Discovery Centres.
In the twenty-four months that the exhibition was open, 31 per cent of Te Papa’s 2.5 million visitors visited the Tūhoe | Children of the Mist exhibition - equivalent to 777,333 visitors, averaging 33,797 visitors per month.