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Te Waiotukapiti Hut 

Te Urewera, Hawke’s Bay

This tōtara lined hut was built in 1952, not long after similar Te Tōtara and Rogers Huts. Considered historic as one of these early deer culler huts in Te Urewera.

The Te Urewera is the natural home of the Tūhoe people and in 2014 it was granted personhood status. The board that represents it has said "many Tūhoe saw the DOC huts as a continuing symbol of the disconnection of Tūhoe from Te Urewera when it was made into a national park in the 1950s, without consultation and excluding Tūhoe from decision-making about their home.

"The huts, many of which were near or at the end of their lives, and associated health and safety obligations were also a material drain on the resources of DOC and Tūhoe to manage Te Urewera."

Te Waiotukapiti has been named in the 2022 removal list and will likely be removed this year.

For this reason it felt especially fitting to create a detailed replica using real materials that will last generations.


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Orange hut with chimney & preworn and weathered flat tin cladding

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