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  2. New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute - Wikipedia

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    The National Wood Carving school, Te Wānanga Whakairo Rākau o Aotearoa, was opened in 1967 and has since restored and built over 40 whare whakairo around New Zealand. The first Tumu (head) of the Carving school was the late renowned Tohunga Whakairo (Master Carver), Hone Taiapa .

  3. Wharenui - Wikipedia

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    Wharenui are usually called meeting houses in New Zealand English, or simply called whare (a more generic term simply referring to a house or building). Also called a whare rūnanga ("meeting house") or whare whakairo (literally "carved house"), the present style of wharenui originated in the early to middle nineteenth century.

  4. History of wood carving - Wikipedia

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    Wood-carving examples of the first eleven centuries of CE are rare due to the fact that woods do decay easily in 1,000 years. The carved panels of the main doors of St Sabina on the Aventine Hill , Rome, are very interesting specimens of early Christian relief sculpture in wood, dating, as the dresses show, from the 5th century.

  5. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    The Siberian Yupiit, who have great cultural overlap with Native Alaskan Yupiit, are also included. Indigenous American visual arts include portable arts, such as painting, basketry, textiles, or photography, as well as monumental works, such as architecture, land art, public sculpture, or murals.

  6. Whakairo - Wikipedia

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    Whakairo. Carver working at Te Wānanga Whakairo of the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute in 1982. Māori Battalion Pouwhenua carved by Eruera Te Whiti Nia (1996) Toi whakairo (art carving) or just whakairo (carving) is a Māori traditional art of carving in wood, stone or bone. [1]

  7. Wood carving - Wikipedia

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    Wood carving. Wood carving is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object. The phrase may also refer to the finished product, from individual ...

  8. Grinling Gibbons - Wikipedia

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    Grinling Gibbons (4 April 1648 – 3 August 1721) was an Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver known for his work in England, including Windsor Castle, the Royal Hospital Chelsea and Hampton Court Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and other London churches, Petworth House and other country houses, Trinity College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge.

  9. Indigenous Australian art - Wikipedia

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    Gwion Gwion rock art found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia. Pictographs known as Wandjina in the Wunnumurra Gorge, Barnett River, Kimberley, Western Australia. Indigenous Australian art includes art made by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, including collaborations with others.

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