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Weaving of kiekie leaves Weaving peg. Māori traditional textiles are the indigenous textiles of the Māori people of New Zealand.The organisation Te Roopu Raranga Whatu o Aotearoa, the national Māori weavers' collective, aims to preserve and foster the skills of making and using these materials.
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 ...
Waharoa, also known as Te Waharoa o Aotea, [1] is a public sculpture located in Aotea Square, the city centre of Auckland, New Zealand. The expressionist piece was designed by Selwyn Muru and depicts a waharoa, a traditional Māori gateway in front of a marae ātea; the open meeting courtyard at a marae. Muru took elements from traditional ...
Production has begun on “Tangata Pai,” a Warner Bros. Discovery-backed drama that claims to be the first primetime series in which 30% of the dialog will be in the Maori language. The eight ...
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 ...
In April 1948 it launched the country's first design publication, the New Zealand Design Review, which it continued to publish until 1954. [2] The Design Guild was formed in Auckland in 1949 but failed to survive to the end of that year. In Christchurch, a group of interested persons established the Design Association of New Zealand (DANZ
Designs on carvings depict tribal ancestors, and are often important for establishing iwi and hapu identity. [ 2 ] After European contact, many traditionally carved items were no longer widely produced in favour of using Western counterparts, such as waka huia treasure containers being replaced with lockable seaman's chests by the 1840s. [ 3 ]
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.