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The impact of tiki culture on music (and vice versa) had beginnings in the creation of "hapa-haole" music, with "haole" meaning "foreigner" in the context, derived from America's expectation of native Hawaiian (and other Oceanic regions) folk music. As is the case with much of tiki culture, its genres can fall into varying themes.
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 ...
Tiki marries her and their daughter is Hine-kau-ataata. [1]: 151–152 [b] In some traditions, Tiki is the penis of Tāne. [2] [3]: 510–511 In fact, Tiki is strongly associated with the origin of the reproductive act. [c] In one story of Tiki among the many variants, Tiki was lonely and craved company.
The distinct values, history, and worldview of Māori are expressed through traditional arts and skills such as haka, tā moko, waiata (music), carving, weaving, and poi. The concept of tapu (meaning taboo or sacred [22]) is also a strong force in Māori culture, applied to objects, people, or even mountains. [23]
This continued with mokomokai heads being traded for muskets and the subsequent Musket Wars. During this period of social destabilisation, toi moko became commercial trade items, which could be sold as curios, artworks and museum specimens that fetched high prices in Europe and America, and could be bartered for firearms and ammunition.
New Zealand art consists of the visual and plastic arts (including woodwork, textiles, and ceramics) originating from New Zealand and comes from different traditions: indigenous Māori art and that brought here including from early European mostly British settlers.
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Māori cultural history intertwines inextricably with the culture of Polynesia as a whole. The New Zealand archipelago forms the southwestern corner of the Polynesian Triangle, a major part of the Pacific Ocean with three island groups at its corners: the Hawaiian Islands, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and New Zealand (Aotearoa in te reo Māori). [10]