"A daily episode of TAONGA from AOTEAROA telling you how it is and disrupting the narrative. If you don't like it, change the channel. #history #educateyourself
Episode four: Good Golly
#goodgolly #dolly #goodgriefThe Golliwog shares its lineage which started in 1895 as a caricature in the books, The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwog. The Golliwog characters were made into dolls and collectible merchandise before being used in Agatha Christie’s novel Ten Little Niggers. Inspired by the blackface minstrels, a style of theatre that depicted black slaves for comic entertainment."
Taonga Talkback TV - Episode Four: Good Golly (2020)
Other works in this series
Suzanne Tamaki
Taonga Talkback TV - Episode Three: Statue bro (gov ham) (2020)
The statue of John Hamilton, who drove Waikato Māori off their land for settler occupation, speaks to the camera.
Suzanne Tamaki
Taonga Talkback TV - Episode Two: Miss Tiki (2020)
Iconic Māori taonga Miss Tiki educates us on the pronunciation of Māori words.
Suzanne Tamaki
Taonga Talkback TV - Episode One: Statue bro (gov grey) (2020)
A vandalised colonial war veteran boasts of his successes as Governor General following the Taranaki war and Waikato Tainui invasion.
Suzanne Tamaki
Taonga Talkback TV - Episode Five: Plastic Māori (2020)
Manu the plastic Māori doll draws our attention to the cultural appropriation of Māori culture and taonga.
Related interview
Suzanne Tamaki
Suzanne Tamaki
Interview series·(ex)CLAIM
(ex)CLAIM is an interview series by Israel Randell, in which she meets practitioners from Aotearoa whose work seeks to correct imbalances in our bi-cultural histories. In this first interview, Suzanne Tamaki discusses a new suite of works made in response to Black Lives Matter.