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Book Kete Whakairo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Rose Ngawaka
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1466941545
  • Pages : 57 pages

Download or read book Kete Whakairo written by Margaret Rose Ngawaka and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Rose Ngawaka- Iwi (Tribe)-Ngati Porou, Kahungunu, and Rongomaiwahine I live on a 148-acre offshore island on the west side of Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand, where my husband and I have raised our seven children. Living here so remote has the challenge of not being able to attend courses of learning on the mainland (New Zealand). But I continue to strive for knowledge and understanding and seek out whatever opportunities come my way. I learned raranga in 1998, but it has been in my blood since birth. My journey with harakeke is entwined with my whakapapa (family history). When I learned to plait, I found an aunt I have never met who was an expert weaver of her time. When I learned piupiu (traditional Maori kilt), I was given a photo of my great-grandmother wearing her piupiu and learned she was a matriarch weaver of her time. This confirmed also that she was giving me permission to carry on with this treasured skill that she once excelled in. When I learned taniko, it was my mother's sister, Aunt Hiria Okeroa Waaka, who taught me. My aunt Hiria has fond memories as a young girl being chosen to go pick kiekie and harakeke with her grandmother (my great-grandmother). This reminds me of my duty and responsibility to teach raranga and inspire hope for future mokopuna-grandchildren/posterity. There are many women more experienced and skilled than I who could have written this step-by-step book. I feel so blessed to have seen this opportunity and ran with it. I always say, "If it's meant to be-it will be."

Book Whakairo

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. R. Simmons
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Whakairo written by D. R. Simmons and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes and illustrates the differences, subtle and profound, between the carving styles of the tribes, and examines the work of each tribal group in depth".

Book Aho Mutunga Kore

    Book Details:
  • Author : Miriama Evans
  • Publisher : Huia Publishers
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781869691615
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Aho Mutunga Kore written by Miriama Evans and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a beautifully presented book featuring some stunning images and concise accounts of the concepts and values of traditional and contemporary Maori weaving. Featuring some of New Zealand's foremost Maori expert weavers, The Eternal Thread: The Art of Maori Weaving celebrates innovation and development of weaving and plaiting as art forms in modern times while acknowledging the technology developed by weavers through the past centuries.

Book Kete Whakairo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret rose Ngawaka
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2013-04-17
  • ISBN : 1466941537
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book Kete Whakairo written by Margaret rose Ngawaka and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone can learn to plait a kete whakairo from the long blades of harakeke, commonly known as New Zealand flax. This book Kete Whakairo plaiting flax for beginners gives detailed, step by step instructions and illustrations for plaiting a beginner's version of this type of kete. Margaret Rose Ngawaka first became interested in her native craft of plaiting when a group of tutors were invited to teach women in a small northern community on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand in 1998. Margaret Rose has maintained this traditional art and skill. She continues this folk art of Raranga by teaching others who are interested.

Book Art of Maori Carving

Download or read book Art of Maori Carving written by Sidney M. Mead and published by Raupo. This book was released on 1986 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Carved Histories

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  • Author : Roger Neich
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9781869402570
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Carved Histories written by Roger Neich and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide examines the personal histories, roles, and personalities that played into the traditional cultural art of carving. It also traces the influence of European patronage and the ensuing tourist trade upon this art form, as many Maori carvers began styling and catering their product to meet their clients’ aesthetic desires. Included is a discussion of the establishment of the government-sponsored Rotorua School of Maori Art in 1928, which appointed as the main tutor Eramiha Kapua, a Ngati Tarawhai carver, thus helping his own traditional tribal art to make the transition into a modern “national” art.

Book The Circle   the Spiral

Download or read book The Circle the Spiral written by Eva Rask Knudsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Aboriginal and Māori literature, the circle and the spiral are the symbolic metaphors for a never-ending journey of discovery and rediscovery. The journey itself, with its indigenous perspectives and sense of orientation, is the most significant act of cultural recuperation. The present study outlines the fields of indigenous writing in Australia and New Zealand in the crucial period between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s – particularly eventful years in which postcolonial theory attempted to ‘centre the margins’ and indigenous writers were keen to escape the particular centering offered in search of other positions more in tune with their creative sensibilities. Indigenous writing relinquished its narrative preference for social realism in favour of traversing old territory in new spiritual ways; roots converted into routes. Standard postcolonial readings of indigenous texts often overwrite the ‘difference’ they seek to locate because critical orthodoxy predetermines what ‘difference’ can be. Critical evaluations still tend to eclipse the ontological grounds of Aboriginal and Māori traditions and specific ways of moving through and behaving in cultural landscapes and social contexts. Hence the corrective applied in Circles and Spirals – to look for locally and culturally specific tracks and traces that lead in other directions than those catalogued by postcolonial convention. This agenda is pursued by means of searching enquiries into the historical, anthropological, political and cultural determinants of the present state of Aboriginal and Māori writing (principally fiction). Independent yet interrelated exemplary analyses of works by Keri Hulme and Patricia Grace and Mudrooroo and Sam Watson (Australia) provided the ‘thick description’ that illuminates the author’s central theses, with comparative side-glances at Witi Ihimaera, Heretaunga Pat Baker and Alan Duff (New Zealand) and Archie Weller and Sally Morgan (Australia).

Book Tainui

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  • Author : John White
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1888
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book Tainui written by John White and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... An official collection of Māori historical traditions"--BIM.

Book Memoirs of the Polynesian Society

Download or read book Memoirs of the Polynesian Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Journal of the Polynesian Society

Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.

Book Maori and the written word

Download or read book Maori and the written word written by Bradford Haami and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of Ngati Hikata through the writings of seven Maori people spanning four generations of the Maaka family. Included are genealogies, traditional histories, and personal documents written in Maori and in English that date from 1848 to 1978. Ranging from pepeha and waiata to the bleakly beautiful diaries of a mutton-birder, the documents collected in this book are a rare and intriguing window into the real lives of their authors. This valuable reference work also shows how to safegaurd and share ancestors' precious work for the future.

Book Inside Austronesian Houses

Download or read book Inside Austronesian Houses written by James J. Fox and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwellings; Social life; Customs; Southeast asia; Oceania.

Book Writing Along Broken Lines

Download or read book Writing Along Broken Lines written by Otto Heim and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the two decades from 1972, Swiss scholar Otto Heim presents detailed readings of the novels and short fiction by Heretaunga Pat Baker, Alan Duff, Patricia Grace, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Bruce Stewart, J. C. Sturm, Apirana Taylor, and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. His book places the fiction by Maori writers in the context of a culture of survival and traces its textual engagement with violence between empathy and sacrifice, from the privacy of domestic violence to the public arenas of systemic violence and war. He argues that out of this confrontation with violence emerges a distinctive ethnic world view created by the construction of individual experience, the development of an ideological stance and the expression of a spiritual orientation. Heim's analysis shows works of fiction by contemporary Maori writers as challenging explorations of the constraints placed on the literary imagination by the urgent facts of the human condition and the imperatives of culture.

Book The Old Time Maori

    Book Details:
  • Author : Makereti Papakura
  • Publisher : Read Books Ltd
  • Release : 2011-03-23
  • ISBN : 1446546624
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book The Old Time Maori written by Makereti Papakura and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage book contains a fascinating and insightful account of the 'old-time' Maori of New Zealand, written by Makereti, the sometime chieftainess of the Arawa Tribe of the Maori of New Zealand. This text will appeal to anyone with an interest in the Maori of New Zealand or in the life and mind of Maggie Papakura, and it would make for a great addition to any bookshelf. The chapters of this book include: Social Organization and Relationship Terms, Marriage, Children, Food, Fire, Houses, Weapons, Full Description of the Photographs, and Principal Genealogies. We are republishing this antiquarian book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Book Mapping Modernisms

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Harney
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2018-11-01
  • ISBN : 0822372614
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Mapping Modernisms written by Elizabeth Harney and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas of Primitivism through visual forms and philosophical ideas. Although often overlooked in the literature on global modernisms, artists, artworks, and art patrons moved within and across national and imperial borders, carrying, appropriating, or translating objects, images, and ideas. These itineraries made up the dense networks of modern life, contributing to the crafting of modern subjectivities and of local, transnationally inflected modernisms. Addressing the silence on indigeneity in established narratives of modernism, the contributors decenter art history's traditional Western orientation and prompt a re-evaluation of canonical understandings of twentieth-century art history. Mapping Modernisms is the first book in Modernist Exchanges, a multivolume project dedicated to rewriting the history of modernism and modernist art to include artists, theorists, art forms, and movements from around the world. Contributors. Bill Anthes, Peter Brunt, Karen Duffek, Erin Haney, Elizabeth Harney, Heather Igloliorte, Sandra Klopper, Ian McLean, Anitra Nettleton, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Ruth B. Phillips, W. Jackson Rushing III, Damian Skinner, Nicholas Thomas, Norman Vorano

Book The Lore of the Whare w  nanga

Download or read book The Lore of the Whare w nanga written by H. T. Whatahoro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of Maori traditions, dictated by elders in the 1850s, was published with an English translation in 1913-15.