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Crafting Aotearoa : a cultural history of making in New Zealand and the wider Moana Oceania /

"A major new history of craft that spans three centuries of making and thinking in Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider Moana (Pacific). Paying attention to Pākehā, Māori, and island nations of the wider Moana, and old and new migrant makers and their works, this book is a history of craft unders...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chitham, Karl (Author, Editor), Māhina-Tuai, Kolokesa Uafā (Author, Editor), Skinner, Damian (Author, Editor)
Other Authors: Sorzano, Rigel (Researcher)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wellington, New Zealand : Te Papa Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Decorative arts > New Zealand > History.
Decorative arts > Oceania > History.
Handicraft > New Zealand > History.
Handicraft > Oceania > History.
Decorative arts.
Handicraft.
New Zealand.
Oceania.
Toi Māori.
Waka toi.
Tāngata o Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa.
History.
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Summary:"A major new history of craft that spans three centuries of making and thinking in Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider Moana (Pacific). Paying attention to Pākehā, Māori, and island nations of the wider Moana, and old and new migrant makers and their works, this book is a history of craft understood as an idea that shifts and changes over time"--Publisher information.
Physical Description:463 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780994136275
0994136277