The bridgebuilder /
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Imprint: | Auckland : Tawera Productions, 2009. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (53 minutes) |
Language: | English |
Subject: | |
Format: | E-Resource Video Streaming Video |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10371599 |
Varying Form of Title: | Bridge builder |
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Other authors / contributors: | Mills, Toby, director, producer. Tawera Productions, production company. |
Sound characteristics: | digital |
Digital file characteristics: | data file |
Notes: | Title from resource description page (viewed May 22, 2015). In English. |
Summary: | The Bridge-builder is a profile on 80 year old Hekenukumai Busby; Mastercarver, waka-builder, celestial navigator and icon of the Pacific. It traces his rise from engineer and bridgebuilder in the north to his visit in 2008 to the small Micronesian island of Satawal, where Hec was acknowledged in a traditional ceremony, as a master celestial navigator taught by the great teacher Mau Pialug. |
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