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The Māori settlement of New Zealand represents an end-point of a long chain of island-hopping voyages in the South Pacific.. Evidence from genetics, archaeology, linguistics, and physical anthropology indicates that the ancestry of Polynesian people stretches all the way back to indigenous peoples of Taiwan.
Before British colonisation of New Zealand, the Indigenous architecture of Māori was an 'elaborate tradition of timber architecture'. [1] Māori constructed rectangular buildings (whare) with a 'small door, an extension of the roof and walls to form a porch, and an interior with hearths along the centre and sleeping places along the walls' for protection against the cold.
Europeans began producing art in New Zealand as soon as they arrived, with many exploration ships including an artist to record newly discovered places, people, flora and fauna. 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]
For example, in the South Island there are 550 rock art sites and 107 in the North Island and 6956 Pā in all New Zealand. [ 54 ] [ 4 ] The types of features present in New Zealand pre European archaeology are pā, storage pits, gardens (stone rows and banks), house floors, terraces, trenches, umu (earth ovens), middens, quarries, rock art and ...
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 ...
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]
Te Pati Maori said in social media posts on Monday that the protests in cities and urban centres would take aim at plans to reinterpret New Zealand’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi ...
Indigenous architecture refers to the study and practice of architecture of, for, and by Indigenous peoples. This field of study and practice in the United States , Australia , New Zealand , Canada , Circumpolar regions, and many other regions where Indigenous people have a built tradition or aspire translate or to have their cultures ...