Te Hei Tiki - An Enduring Treasure in a Cultural Continuum by Dougal Austin

$65.00 NZD

Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro

Of all Maori personal adornments, the human figure pendants known as hei tiki are the most highly prized and culturally iconic. This book showcases photographs of a large selection of hei tiki, most from the taonga Maori collection at Te Papa. The collection of over 270 hei tiki is the largest in New Ze aland and very likely the world. ...Show more

Weaving a Kakahu (Handling fee and/or freight charges may apply) by Diggeress Te Kanawa

$39.99 NZD

Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro

Weaving a Kakahu was reprinted in 1994 and this 2006 version has been supported by Creative New Zealand and Puwaha ki te Ao Trust. The 2006 relaunch of Weaving a Kakahu in conjunction with Digger being the recipient of the Te Tohu Tiketike o te Waka Toi Exemplary Award at Te Tokanganui a noho marae, Te Kuiti, is testimony of recognition for a lifetime of commitment to a traditional art from while juggling a large family. "Weaving has always been around me for as long as I can remember. I was always fascinated by the preparation and dyeing of muka (fibre) and the difference in textures obtained from different varieties of harakeke, or flax." ...Show more

Te Whatu Taniko - Taniko Weaving : Technique and Tradition by MEAD Hirini Moko

$45.00 NZD

Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro

Hirini Mead is a renowned Maori writer and commentator. This contains easy-to-follow patterns and line-drawing instructions for technique The book Taniko Weaving is a taonga handed down by the ancestors to us of today. As a taonga it will always remain a treasure of great value which will be there waiti ng to be touched again, warmed and given a new lease of life - Hirini Moko Mead. Taniko weaving is one of the supreme expressions of Maori art. Weaving and dyeingthe fibres of native flax creates elaborate, beautiful patterns that are used to adornclothing, with distinctive styles that have evolved over centuries of creativity.This has been the standard work on the subject since its first publication as TanikoWeaving in 1952. Since rewritten and updated, Te Whatu Taniko provides the history and social context for weaving, as well as clear, practical guidelines for making taniko. Using the books clear and concise graphs and drawings, readers can utilise this bookto weave the beautiful patterns within. The instructions can be used as a beginnersguide or a refresher resource, or simply to enjoy and admire this beautiful artform. ...Show more

Whatu Kakahu - Maori Cloaks by Awhina Tamarapa

$75.00 NZD

Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro

The revised edition of this award-winning book opens the storeroom doors of the Te Papa Tongarewa Maori collections once again, illuminating the magnificent kakahu and the art and tradition of weaving itself. More than 50 rare and precious kakahu are specially featured, with glossy colour detail illustr ations of each, plus historical and contextual images and graphic diagrams of weaving techniques. ...Show more

Te Toki Me Te Whao: The Story of Maori Carving Tools by Clive Fugill

$45.00 NZD

Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro

It is over a century since the last major book on Māori carving tools. Clive Fugill, Master Carver at the NZ Māori Arts & Crafts Institute, tells the mythical, traditional and modern stories of the making and use of carving tools, including the adze (toki) and the chisel (whao) with detailed drawing s and photographs. ...Show more

How to Make a Piupiu by Leilani Rickard

$35.00 NZD

Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro

An illustrated book with step-by-step instructions on how to make your own piupiu, the traditional Maori flax skirt. Experienced Totorua weaver Leilani Rickard covers everything you need to know - from customary uses of harakeke or flax, to the simple tools you will need to finish the garment. The colou r photographs record every phase of the craft process and include a gallery of finished garments in both traditional and contemporary styles. First published June 2008. ...Show more

Weaving a large container from New Zealand flax by Ali Brown

$29.99 NZD

Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro

Crafting Aotearoa by Karl Chitham; Kolokesa Mahina-Tuai

$85.00 NZD

Category: Cultural History

A major new history of craft that spans three centuries of making and thinking in Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider Moana (Pacific). It tells the previously untold story of craft in Aotearoa New Zealand, and proposes a new idea of craft - one that acknowledges Pakeha, Maori and wider Moana histories of making, so that the connections, as well as the differences and tensions, can be identified and explored. ...Show more

Te Toi Whakairo: The Art Of Maori Carving by Mead, Hirini Moko

$45.00 NZD

Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro

Weaving Flowers from New Zealand Flax 4th ed by Ali Brown

$79.99 NZD

Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro

A Whakapapa of Tradition: 100 Years of Ngati Porou Carving 1830-1930 by Ngarino Ellis

$69.99 NZD

Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro | Reading Level: near fine

From the emergence of the chapel and the wharenui in the nineteenth century to the rejuvenation of carving by Apirana Ngata in the 1920s, Maori carving went through a rapid evolution from 1830 to 1930. Focusing on thirty meeting houses, Ngarino Ellis tells the story of Ngati Porou carving and a profound transformation in Maori art. Beginning around 1830, three previously dominant art traditions - waka taua (war canoes), pataka (decorated storehouses) and whare rangatira (chief's houses) - declined and were replaced by whare karakia (churches), whare whakairo (decorated meeting houses) and wharekai (dining halls). Ellis examines how and why that fundamental transformation took place by exploring the Iwir?kau School of carving, based in the Waiapu Valley on the East Coast of the North Island. A Whakapapa of Tradition tells us much about the art forms themselves but also analyses the environment that made carving and building possible: the patrons who were the enablers and transmitters of culture; the carvers who engaged with modern tools and ideas; and the communities as a whole who created the new forms of art and architecture. This book is both a major study of Ngati Porou carving and an attempt to make sense of Maori art history. What makes a tradition in Maori art? Ellis asks. How do traditions begin? Who decides this? Conversely, how and why do traditions cease? And what forces are at play which make some buildings acceptable and others not? Beautifully illustrated with new photography by Natalie Robertson, and drawing on the work of key scholars to make a new synthetic whole, this book will be a landmark volume in the history of writing about Maori art. ...Show more

Te Ara Puoro: A Journey into the World of Maori Music by Richard Nunns; Allan Thomas

$39.99 NZD

Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro | Reading Level: New

One of the largely unseen consequences of the European colonisation of Aotearoa was that the playing of, and knowledge about the traditional musical instruments of the Maori almost completely disappeared. In the 1970s a young Pakeha schoolteacher, Richard Nunns, started asking questions of his Maori fri ends about these instruments, which sparked a 40-year journey of rediscovery. Over that time Richard has become internationally recognised as the leading figure in the revival of taonga puoro, alongside the late Hirini Melbourne, educator and musician, and Brian Flintoff, master carver and instrument maker. Te Ara Puoro tells the story of Richard's remarkable journey; of how fragments of knowledge given by elders were pieced together through countless presentations and performances on marae the length and breadth of the country; of how the instruments were re-created and developed; and of how he subsequently mastered their playing. The book gathers together an enormous amount of the current knowledge about taonga puroro, and will undoubtedly be the most important written resource in existence on the subject.It also charts the many other paths that Richard has taken with the music, including the huge variety of recordings he has done, his sound-track work, and his playing in other genres, such as free jazz and classical. This is a remarkable and important story. Lavishly illustrated with photographs of the instruments, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Maori culture. ...Show more