Arapata Hakiwai

{{Short description|New Zealand academic and museum curator}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2014}}

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| alma_mater = Victoria University of Wellington

| thesis_title = Te Toi Whakairo O Ngāti Kahungunu: The Carving Traditions of Ngāti Kahungunu

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Arapata Tamati Hakiwai is a New Zealand museum curator of Māori collections. He is a principal investigator with Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, a Māori research centre at University of Auckland.{{cite web|url=http://www.maramatanga.ac.nz/person/arapata-hakiwai |title=Arapata Hakiwai | Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga |publisher=Maramatanga.ac.nz |date= |accessdate=17 July 2014}}

He is the current Kaihautū, or Māori leader, of Te Papa, and was the museum's acting chief executive before the appointment of Rick Ellis.{{cite web|url=http://www.victoria.ac.nz/news/2013/victoria-phd-student-appointed-as-te-papas-kaihautu |title=Victoria PhD student appointed as Te Papa's Kaihautū | Victoria University of Wellington |publisher=Victoria.ac.nz |date=9 October 2013 |accessdate=17 July 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://tepapa.govt.nz/AboutUs/Boardstructure/Pages/SMT.aspx |title=Executive team – Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ |publisher=Tepapa.govt.nz |date= |accessdate=17 July 2014}}

In 2014 Hakiwai completed a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington with a thesis on the politics of Māori tribal identity.{{cite thesis |last=Hakiwai |first=Arapata |year=2014 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=He mana taonga, he mana tangata: Māori taonga and the politics of Māori tribal identity and development |publisher=Open Access Repository Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington |doi=10.26686/wgtn.17008429 |url=https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/thesis/He_mana_taonga_he_mana_tangata_M_ori_taonga_and_the_politics_of_M_ori_tribal_identity_and_development/17008429/1|doi-access=free }}

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