Moira White

Biographic Data

ID5061753
NAMEMoira White
GIVEN NAMESMoira
FAMILY NAMEWhite
SIGNATUREWHITE M
AFFILIATIONSOtago Polytechnic
ORCID0000-0001-8633-5597
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Fashion Forward

    Jane Malthus, Margo Barton et al.ARTICLEDress2024

    Fashion Forward: Disruption through Design began with a desire to celebrate two decades of the iD Dunedin Fashion show, one of the southern city’s most acclaimed and high-profile cultural events. i

  • Aurora and the Otago Museum

    Open AccessMoira WhiteARTICLEPolar Record2017References: 5

    Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition famously did not succeed in traversing the Antarctic continent from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. It was, nevertheless, an enterprise that engaged the interest of New Zealanders and the rest of the British Empire even as World War I was being fought. When one of the expedition ships, Aurora , broke from her moorings soon after arrival in McMurdo Sound and drifted trapped in pack ice f…

  • Cuneiform Texts in The Otago Museum

    Open AccessWayne Horowitz, Scott Reeve et al.ARTICLEBuried History The Journal of the…2016

    The Otago Museum, Dunedin, has a collection of over 150 cuneiform tablets.This paper describes the background of the collection and presents a brief analysis of two tablets from the collection, one historical and the other mathematical

  • Interior Lives

    Open AccessA Anderson, Moira White et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pacific Archaeology2015

    Rockshelter and similar sites in inland Otago have produced a relatively large number of Maori artefacts made in readily perishable materials such as flax leaves and fibre, tussock grass or tapa (bark) cloth. Regional preservation is clearly related broadly to the relatively arid climate. However, AMS radiocarbon dates on 11 samples from 10 sites shows that while a few date to the 17th century or earlier, the ages of most cluster in the 18th to e…

  • Tradition and Change in Maori and Pacific Art

    Open AccessMoira WhiteARTICLEJournal of Pacific Archaeology2014

  • Dixon, Skinner and Te Rangi Hiroa

    Moira WhiteARTICLEJournal of Pacific History2012

    In the early 1920s, Henry Devenish Skinner of the Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, entered into a correspondence with Roland Burrage Dixon of the Peabody Museum and Harvard University and with Te Rangi Hiroa, then Director of Maori Hygiene in Auckland, New Zealand. The correspondence centred on recent publications by Dixon that used an experimental craniological analysis of his own devising to construct a number of global racial types and to t…

  • Mr Cocker’s Benger Burn discoveries

    Moira White, Jayne M Lord et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Polynesian Society2012

    The recent botanical examination and dating of a tag from a South Island rain cape in the Otago Museum collection has lead to an examination of the circumstances surrounding its discovery, and an analysis of the significance accorded it by early researchers

  • Radiocarbon Dates on Desiccated Moa (Dinornithiformes) Flesh from Inland Otago, New Zealand

    Open AccessA Anderson, Lucy Rowe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pacific Archaeology2010

    Remains of soft tissues from extinct moa (Dinornithiformes), mainly desiccated sinew, muscle, skin, and feathers have been recovered rather seldom but their distribution is distinctive. Of 22 records of such finds accumulated between 1864 and 1987, 15 came from inland Otago (Anderson 1989: 67–68, Table 5.2), west of Dunedin in the southern South Island. Most were found in the late nineteenth century (13 records) in rockshelters, clefts or alluvia…