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Kurangaituku is a part-woman part-bird supernatural being in Māori mythology as told by the iwi (tribes) of Te Arawa and Raukawa. Her name is sometimes spelled Kurungaituku . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She is sometimes described as an ogress or a witch , although some versions of the legend are sympathetic to her and present her as a nurturing ...
Kura Te Waru Rewiri (born 1950) is a New Zealand artist, academic and educator. Art historian Deidre Brown described her as "one of Aotearoa, New Zealand's most celebrated Māori women artists." [ 1 ] : 98
Te Awekotuku has researched and written extensively on the traditional and contemporary practices of tā moko (tattoo) in New Zealand. Her 2007 (re-published in 2011) book Mau Moko: the world of Maori tattoo, co-authored with Linda Waimarie Nikora, was the product of a five-year long research project conducted by the Māori and Psychology Research Unit at the University of Waikato, funded by a ...
Kura Paul-Burke (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Whakahemo) is a New Zealand Māori marine scientist, and is the first woman Māori professor of marine science at the University of Waikato. Her research focuses on mātauranga Māori and aquaculture.
Kura Te Ua is a Māori performing arts practitioner, choreographer and artistic director. She specialises in kapa haka and has developed the new hybrid-form 'haka theatre'. Her company Hawaiki TŪ creates haka theatre events including in 2023 where Autaia is featuring 400 student performers.
Dame Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira DNZM (13 November 1932 – 16 July 2011) was a New Zealand Māori language proponent, educator, intellectual, artist and writer. [1] Her efforts to revive and revitalise the Māori language (te reo Māori) led to the growth of Kura Kaupapa Māori in New Zealand.
Borell, N. Ngā Momo Whakaaro -Kura Te Waru Rewiri. In Mason, N (Ed), Five Māori Painters. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2014. Te Atinga: 25 years of Contemporary Māori Art. Wellington, New Zealand: Toi Maori Aotearoa, 2013. ISBN 9780958234146. Borell, N Ed). Kura: Story of a Maori Woman Artist. Mangere Arts Centre- Nga Tohu o Uenuku, 2012.
Edward R. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay), 1891. Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, 'First peoples in Māori tradition – Kupe', Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, (accessed 28 December 2023)