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Major-General Horatio Gordon Robley was a British army officer and artist who served in New Zealand during the New Zealand Wars in the 1860s. He was interested in ethnology and fascinated by the art of tattooing. He wrote Moko; or Maori Tattooing, which was published in 1896. After he returned to England he built up a collection of 35 to 40 ...
Images relating to moko from the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; New Zealand Electronic Text Centre collection on Ta Moko, mokamokai, Horatio Robley and his art. A bibliography provides further links to other online resources. The rise of the Maori tribal tattoo, BBC News Magazine, 21 September 2012, Ngahuia Te ...
Kipa is probably best known for mixing customary Māori motifs and techniques with non-traditional materials. [3] He is also interested in (in his own words) "participating in the revival of a number of Māori art forms that were affected by the colonial process in New Zealand". [3] Kipa was originally trained in customary carving traditions.
The National Art Gallery of New Zealand was established in 1936, and was amalgamated into the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in 1992. The Auckland Art Gallery is New Zealand's largest art institution with a collection numbering over 15,000 works, [ 31 ]
The logo of Air New Zealand, the national carrier, incorporates a koru design — based on the Ngaru (Ngāti Kahungunu) [5] kōwhaiwhai pattern — as a symbol of New Zealand flora. The logo was introduced in 1973 to coincide with the arrival of the airline's first McDonnell Douglas DC-10 wide-body jet.
A New Zealand news anchor fired back at a viewer who she said has repeatedly complained about her traditional face tattoos. New Zealand news anchor with traditional face tattoo blasts viewer's ...
Her husband is a well known New Zealand tattoo artist Tom McMillan, best known as Tom Tom. [ 6 ] There are two bronze sculptures named Twist and Thief by McMillan on Karangahape Road , commissioned by Auckland Council , to be part of Auckland Council Art Collection in collaboration with John Oz. [ 7 ]
The New Zealand School of Māori Arts and Crafts (Te Ao Marama) was founded in 1926 by Āpirana Ngata, [2] then the Member of Parliament for Eastern Maori which included Rotorua. The school focused on teaching traditional Māori arts and crafts. Ngata believed that arts was vital to the rejuvenation of Māori culture.