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The Māori word pounamu is derived from namu, an archaic word that describes blue-green (or 'grue') cognate with Tahitian ninamu. [2] Pounamu, also used in New Zealand English, in itself refers to two main types of green stone valued for carving: nephrite jade, classified by Māori as kawakawa, kahurangi, īnanga, and other names depending on colour; and translucent bowenite, a type of ...
If you've taken photos, or have commissioned photos and own the copyright, these can be released under an open licence to Wikimedia Commons, which means they can be used by Wikipedia and Wikidata as well as media, researchers etc. New Zealand art coverage in Wikipedia is really short of images of people.
Sheehan has also made works that question New Zealand's 'clean, green' image. [ 2 ] : 87 He says 'A lot of contemporary carving is retrospective looking. I wanted my stuff to relate to the current social environment but also reference the particular way our carving industry has developed'.
Hinepare, a woman of the Ngāti Kahungunu tribe, wearing a hei-tiki Hei-tiki; circa 18th century; nephrite and haliotis shell; height: 10.9 cm (4 1 ⁄ 4 in.); from New Zealand; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA) The hei-tiki (Māori pronunciation: [hɛi ˈtiki], New Zealand English: / h eɪ ˈ t ɪ k i / [1]) is an ornamental pendant of ...
Te Wāhipounamu (Māori for "the place of greenstone") is a World Heritage Site in the south west corner of the South Island of New Zealand. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1990 and covering 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 sq mi), the site incorporates four national parks: Aoraki / Mount Cook; Fiordland; Mount Aspiring; Westland Tai ...
A design practitioner body, the New Zealand Society of Industrial Designers (NZSID), originally named New Zealand Society of Industrial Artists, formed in May 1959 by group of largely British-trained Auckland-based designers teaching at the Elam School of Art, and modeled on the British Society of Industrial Artists (SIA), was incorporated on ...
Alan Preston interview on 'Nine to Noon', Radio New Zealand National, 23 December 2014; The Dowse Art Museum; Eléna Gee, 'Open Heart: Contemporary New Zealand Jewellery', November 1993; Objectspace, Fingers: Jewellery for Aotearoa New Zealand: 40 Years of fingers Jewellery Gallery, 2014, ISBN 978-0-9922577-6-7
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 ]