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  2. Tā moko - Wikipedia

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    moko is the permanent marking or tattooing as customarily practised by Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. It is one of the five main Polynesian tattoo styles (the other four are Marquesan, Samoan, Tahitian and Hawaiian). [1] Tohunga-tā-moko (tattooists) were considered tapu, or inviolable and sacred. [2]

  3. Rangi Kipa - Wikipedia

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    Kipa's moko work is just one aspect of his art practice that reflects an artist drawing on his cultural heritage in new and exciting ways, demonstrating how tradition and innovation are, in fact, one and the same. [6]: 26 In 2004 Kipa was a Te Waka Toi Inaugural Artist in Residence in the Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa. [2]

  4. Toi moko - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. New Zealand art - Wikipedia

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    The first European work of art made in New Zealand was a drawing by Isaac Gilsemans, the artist on Abel Tasman's expedition of 1642. [16] [17] Portrait of a New Zealand man, Sydney Parkinson, 1784, probably from a sketch made in 1769.

  6. Tattoo - Wikipedia

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    One practice was after death to preserve the skin-covered skull known as Toi moko or mokomokai. In the period of early contact between Māori and Europeans these heads were traded especially for firearms. Many of these are now being repatriated back to New Zealand led by the national museum Te Papa. [98] [99] [100]

  7. Oriini Kaipara - Wikipedia

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    Oriini Kaipara (born 1983) is a New Zealand broadcaster, journalist and translator and interpreter of Māori and English. Kaipara has worked for Mai FM, TVNZ 1, Māori Television, and Three. In 2019 Kaipara was the first person with a moko kauae facial tattoo to present mainstream television news. In 2021 she became the first such person to ...

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  9. Blue moki - Wikipedia

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    Blue moki are seen as a 'game' fish in New Zealand and are commercially fished, this is why Humans are seen as one of blue moki's predators. [12] Blue moki stocks were seriously depleted in New Zealand in 1975. [12] Humans are the blue moki's largest predator, which fishes them commercially using set nets in the areas between East Cape and ...