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Tohunga Whakairo : Paki Harrison - The Story of a Master Carver
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Ranginui Walker
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Paki Harrison is widely regarded as New Zealand's greatest living master carver, a man with a huge reputation as a leading tohunga of the art form. He possesses immense knowledge about the traditional arts of the carver, extending way beyond the actual physical arts to include its most ancient aspects - the symbolism contained in Maori art, to its role in transmitting old tribal history. Few know more about the symbolism of the waka taua (war canoe), whare whakairo (carved meeting houses) and kowhaiwhai patterns. This major biography by Ranginui Walker, himself a well-known public figure, traces Paki Harrison's life and work, from his privileged upbringing in the Ngati Porou household of his grandmother, where he was singled out for special training. The carving and building of several big meeting houses is described in detail, from the inside.
First published November 2008.
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Haka Unique New Zealand
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NZ$ 15.00 each
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Author:
Wira Gardiner
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Most visitors to New Zealand identify New Zealand with the haka, but few know the meaning or history of this powerful challenge. This little book is a beginner's guide to haka, covering the various types of haka and their use including the famous Ka Mate haka and the new Kapa O Pango. Both black and white and full colour photographs showcase the haka in history as well as modern renditions by kapa haka groups. Both a source of pride and a source of controversy, the haka is an integral part of New Zealand's culture.
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Hu-Hu Koroheke
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NZ$ 19.00 each
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Author:
Kyle Mewburn (Illustrated by Rachel Driscoll; tr to Maori Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira)
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This book is a Finalist in the Picture Book Category, New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010.
In Maori.
Everyone loved Old Hu-Hu. But nobody loved him quite as much as little Hu-Hu-Tu. Old Hu-Hu is a thoughtful tale of young Hu-Hu-Tu's search for understanding of what has happened to his beloved Old Hu-Hu, who flew all the way to the moon (or so they said), then fell down dead. Sensitively written, this is a beautiful story of death and the celebration of life, with powerful, evocative illustrations by Rachel Driscoll.
Translated into Maori by Katerina Mataira.
First published 2009.
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Manu Haututu (Magpie Mischief - Maori)
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NZ$ 19.99 each
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Author:
June Peka, illustrated by Jo Thapa
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Pop's vege garden is growing well until someone gives him a pet magpie - which wreaks havoc on Pop's prize veges! Pop's refusal to put the pesky magpie into a cage results in him ending up building a cage for his veges - and himself - instead!
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Maori Art and Design
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NZ$ 39.99 each
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Author:
Julie Paama Pengelly
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Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship,
Maori Art and Design
takes a fresh look at the Maori visual arts, with an emphasis not so much on the history of craft as on the design itself. Covering tattooing, drawing and painting, carving and weaving, the book explores the origination, evolution, and significance of the designs, and also explains the materials and techniques used to create them. The book is illustrated throughout with a mix of black-and-white and colour photography, representing the full range of artefacts from historical to contemporary. The book will appeal to a wide readership from general trade and tourists to educational.
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Maori Healing and Herbal
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NZ$ 120.00 each
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Author:
Murdoch Riley
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This book sets before the reader a compilation of printed and manuscript information on the healing practices of the New Zealand Maori.
It does not claim to be complete, indeed this is impossible, and probably always was, given the secrecy surrounding the rituals, practices and healing methods of individual iwi and tribes. The noted ethnologist Elsdon Best acknowledged that even in his day, when discussion could be held with persons of great knowledge, only a mere fraction of understanding could be obtained by a non-Maori researcher of the philosophies of the learned tohunga of pre-Euroman times. Therefore, the first part of the book entitled "Maori Healing and Health Topics'' incomplete as it must be, is particularly valuable since it draws together all the available information on spiritual healing, then directs the reader to the relevant herbs.
The "Maori herbal remedies'' section includes over 200 plants, some not previously ...
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Matariki: The Maori New Year
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NZ$ 22.00 each
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Author:
Libby Hakaraia
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This book is an introduction to the star group Matariki. Known in other cultures by names including Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, Matariki marked the beginning of the Maori calendar and was greeted with great festivals. A comprehensive guide.
This book is an introduction to the star group Matariki. Known in other cultures by names including the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, Matariki featured strongly in pre-European New Zealand. It marked the beginning of the Maori calendar, and its rising before the sun in late May or early June was greeted with great festivals. It was used as a guide to planting and harvesting, and was studied by tohunga as an omen which told whether the food-gathering season would be plentiful or lean. Libby Hakaraia includes interviews with astronomers Richard Hall and Vicki Hyde, well known navigator Hekenukumai Busby, and Hapimana Rikihana, who still practises the ancient Maori art of mahi whai, or string ...
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Moko : Maori tattooing in the Twentieth Century (2008 new edition)
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NZ$ 65.00 each
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Author:
Michael King (photography Marti Friedlander)
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A new edition of this iconic book includes new larger format and photographs rescanned from Marti Friedlander's originals. It is an indepth photographic study of the ancient art of moko.
270mmx220mm cased and jacketed (with french folds)
First published 1972; revised edition 1992; this edition December 2008.
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Natural World of the Maori : Revised Edition
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Margaret Orbell
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Ta Moko : The art of Maori Tattoo
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author:
D.R. Simmons
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Ta Moko is an outstanding work of Maori scholarship.
The art of Maori tattoo has always been regarded with fascination, and this was one of the first comprehensive books on the subject.
The author,a former ethnologist with the Auckland Museum, provides an examination of Maori moko in all its aspects - its historical develpment, tribal variations, design principles and social significance.
In this illustrated study of male and female moko, the author draws on the records, journals and sketches of early European observers in New Zealand - explorers such as Cook, de Surville and du Fresne and later traders and missionaries. He relies, too, on visual sources, including the work of artists such as Earle, Angas, Robley, Lindauer and Goldie, to document the increasing standardisation, and eventual decline and disappearance of male moko in the nineteenth century.
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