Visitors to Toitu Otago Settlers Museum have helped prepare some of the materials to create a traditional wharerau, a Maori temporary dwelling, at the museum.
Maori traditionally built wharerau as temporary dwellings, which were used for extended periods while camping at a food-gathering site.
Project manager Rua McCallum said the wharerau were also places of learning and used for storytelling.
''Stories were the vehicle in which ancestral histories could be related, including creation narrative and whakapapa [genealogy],'' she said.
Toitu acting director Jennifer Evans said the project was developing well and the public's response had been ''fantastic''.
Historian Bill Dacker helped co-ordinate construction. Work started last month.
Adding external cladding material - ferns, tussock and sedges - began last week and ends today.
Members of the public helped prepare some materials, such as grasses, and were able to watch construction take place each morning (10.30am-11.30am) and afternoon (2pm-3pm).
A film about the construction has been shown at the museum at 12.15pm each day.
Its final screening is today.
