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Carving schools balanced producing art for their own people with commercial works, with many of the most successful being Te Arawa (Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāti Tarāwhai), located near Rotorua, during the tourism boom to the area in the 1870s, with an increased need for carved works such as the model village at Whakarewarewa, and ...
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This subject could/should definately get a FP, but a better picture could be taken with relative ease. Even the Support votes above note that the carving is not visible. Witty lama 23:54, 25 March 2007 (UTC) Well if I want a picture of an actual Maori carving I would have just taken a picture of a finished carving, not a work in progress.
A predominant artform of the Māori people is whakairo, [6] carving, referred to by some as the written language of the Māori. 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.
Taiapa was born at Tikitiki on the East Coast in 1912, one of 14 children of Tāmati Taiapa and Maraea Te Iritawa. [2] [5] In the early 1930s he went to assist his brother Pine, who was a student of carving at a school of Māori arts and crafts that had been established at Ohinemutu in Rotorua in 1927. [6]
A 19th-century carving of a tattooed Maori from kauri gum. The carving is owned and displayed by the Dargaville Museum, New Zealand. Kauri gum is resin from kauri trees (Agathis australis), which historically had several important industrial uses. It can also be used to make crafts such as jewellery.
English: Maori wooden carved statues wearing kahu huruhuru (Maori feather cloaks) and piupiu (traditional Maori skirts), at Te Whai-a-te-Motu meeting house, Mataatua, Ruatahuna. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, circa 1910.
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