Whatu Kākahu - Māori Cloaks by Awhina Tamarapa
86.99 NZD
Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro | Reading Level: near fine
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 ...Show more
Te Toi Whakairo: The Art Of Maori Carving by Hirini Moko Mead
49.99 NZD
Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro
Te Toi Whakairo is an essential guide to Maori wood carving by distinguished carver and academic Sir Sidney (Hirini) Moko Mead. The book presents all the elements of carving in different regions of New Zealand, with practical advice on techniques and styles, and is abundantly illustrated with photos, di ...Show more
How to Make a Piupiu by Leilani Rickard
34.99 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 ...Show more
Mau Moko: the World of Maori Tattoo by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
49.99 NZD
Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro
'Very likely to become the definitive work on the subject . . . a big, beautiful, important book.'Warwick Roger, North and SouthTaia o moko, hei hoa matenga mou . . .Take your moko, as a friend forever . . .In the traditional Maori world the moko, or facial or body tattoo, was part of everyday life; eve ...Show more
Te Puna Waiora - The Weavers of Te Kahui Whiritoi by Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku, Donna Campbell; Nathan Pōhio; Awhina Tamarapa
59.99 NZD
Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro
A stunning new book on the work of Aotearoa New Zealand’s senior Māori weavers. The story of Māori weaving is one of great skill, determination and survival. When colonisation threatened Māori society, the women continued to weave. When their taonga plant species were threatened, they advocated for thei ...Show more
Te Wheke - Pathways Across Oceania by Ken Hall; Felicity Milburn; Nathan Pohio; Lara Strongman; Stephanie Oberg
39.90 NZD
Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro | Reading Level: near fine
Te wheke means octopus in te reo Maori. For many cultures the Pacific Ocean, this resourceful, adventurous creature is a symbol of early voyages from the Polynesian homelands of Hawaiki. In Aotearoa New Zealand, conventional art history tells the stories of art that ties us to Britain and Europe. This b ...Show more
Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania by Kololesa Mahina Tuai
85.00 NZD
Category: Cultural History | Reading Level: near fine
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 ...Show more
Te Whatu Taniko: Taniko Weaving: Technique and Tradition by Moko Mead Hirini
44.99 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 ...Show more
Making Your First Small Korowai by Robin Hill
30.99 NZD
Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro
Weaving NZ Maori cloaks is an ancient art passed down through the generations ... with the renewed interest in korowai weaving many people are wanting to learn the skills to make a cloak for their own whanau. Modern materials enable more people to achieve this goal. This booklet is a step by step simple ...Show more
E Nga Uri Whakatupu: Weaving Legacies by Dame Rangimarie Hetet and Diggeress Te Kanawa
39.99 NZD
Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro
E Nga Uri Whakatupu is a tribute to the life achievements of Dame Rangimarie Hetet (1892 - 1995) and her daughter Diggeress Te Kanawa (1920 -2009), (Ngaati Maniapoto, Ngaati Kinohaku) tohunga of mahi raranga whatu (traditional Maaori weaving experts). These remarkable women are acknowledged as New Zeal ...Show more
Whakapapa of Tradition by Ellis Ngarino
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 ...Show more
Maori Carving: The Art of Preserving Maori History by Malcolm Mulholland; Robyn Bargh
19.99 NZD
Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro
This photograph-rich book shows and describes the process of carving, covering the types of materials and tools used, the carving strokes and surface patterns and different regional styles. It shows the range of items carved from meeting houses to musical instruments, waka or canoes, storehouses, weapon ...Show more