Teu le Vā: The Pacific Dimension at Auckland Museum

Teu le Vā - Nurture the Relationship The Pacific Dimension creates a framework for Auckland Museum to focus attention on approaches, activities, and ways of working within the Auckland Museum, and between the Auckland Museum and source communities and other stakeholder groups. A principle that will assist in the articulation of a Pacific Dimension is encapsulated in the maxim Teu le Vā &the Relationship&Teu, beautify, cherish, nurture. Vā, the space between, relationship. As well as a physical spatial dimension, Vā is also a conceptual space, the relational space. Teu le Vā, 'nurture the relationship&is a common expression, entreaty, or lesson in western Polynesia because, as Samoan author and poet Albert Wendt has stated, "our vā with others defines us". -------