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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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Large scale stone face carvings were also sometimes created. The introduction of metal tools by Europeans changed some carving styles. [13] [better source needed] There are many well-known carvers who were men but women also carved. [14] In the early 21st century, Pania Waaka is believed to be the first woman to earn a qualification in Māori ...
Wero Tāroi (c.1810–1880), [1] also known as Wero Mahikore and Karu, was a notable New Zealand Māori carver of the Ngāti Tarāwhai iwi.He was born at Lake Ōkataina, in the Rotorua district in New Zealand, and active from about 1860.
Toi whakairo or just whakairo is the Māori traditional art of carving [98] in wood, stone or bone. Some surviving whakairo, or carvings, are over 500 years old. Wood carvings were used to decorate houses, fence-poles, containers, taiaha, tool handles, and other objects. Large-scale stone-face carvings were sometimes created.
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]
The carving was found buried close to the lake's shore in 1906 when a farmer was draining swampland, and spent some time in the R.W. Bourne collection before being acquired by the Te Awamutu Museum. [citation needed] The work was the centrepiece of the Te Maori exhibition which toured North America and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. [6]