Hokimate Pamela Harwood is a bicultural science researcher at Te Papa, New Zealand's national museum.
[1][2][3] Harwood attended secondary school at the Catholic Regional College in Traralgon in Victoria, Australia.
Her thesis research analyzed the tree fruit diet of New Zealand’s pigeon population (also known as kūkupa or kererū) in the urban environment of North Shore.
She developed a technique which uses microscopic photography to identify the bird species and geographic origin of feathers used in cloaks.
[4] In 2019, Harwood was involved with the study of Te Rā, the sole remaining customary Māori sail, which is held in the collection of the British Museum in London.