Anonymous Māori “dress reformers” seen in photographs taken in the early 1900s exemplify the wilful forgetting of indigenous women. To counter that forgetting and, in the spirit of Maramataka, for every month of the year, Dr Simone Bull identifies women whose feats tell a story about the impact wāhine Māori have had on our country and the world over the past 180 years. She will wear “rational clothing” while doing so – helping to etch the memory of these women into our collective consciousness.
