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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 ...
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 ...
The traditional male tattoo in Samoa is called the pe'a. The traditional female tattoo is called the malu. The word tattoo is believed to have originated from the Samoan word tatau, coming from Proto-Oceanic *sau₃ referring to a wingbone from a flying fox used as an instrument for the tattooing process. [67]
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 ]
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.
In 2009, Su'a Sulu'ape Paulo's life and tattoo work was documented and published in a photographic book Tatau: Samoan Tattoo, New Zealand Art, Global Culture published by Te Papa Press. The book features photographs by New Zealander Mark Adams a close friend of Sulu'ape and observer of his work for close to 30 years. it includes interviews and ...
A face tattoo or facial tattoo is a tattoo located on the bearer's face or head. It is part of the traditional tattoos of many ethnic groups. In modern times, although it is considered taboo and socially unacceptable in many cultures, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] as well as considered extreme in body art, [ 3 ] this style and placement of tattoo has emerged in ...
A Māori man painting a tattoo on a carved wooden tiki at Whakarewarewa model village, New Zealand, c. 1905 Hawaiian kiʻi at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park Tiki statuette from the Marquesas. In Māori mythology, Tiki is the first man created by either Tūmatauenga or Tāne.