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Toi te mana : an indigenous history of Māori art /

"A landmark account in words and pictures of Māori art, by Māori art historians--from Polynesian voyaging waka to contemporary Māori artists. In six hundred pages and with over five hundred illustrations, this volume takes us on an extraordinary voyage through Māori art--from ancestral weavers...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Brown, Deidre (Deidre Sharon), 1970- (Author), Ellis, Ngarino (Author), Mane-Wheoki, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Maori
Language Notes:In English, with terms and phrases in the Māori language throughout.
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Series:Abakanowicz arts and culture collection.
Subjects:
Art, Māori.
Art, Māori > History.
Māori (New Zealand people) > History.
Māori (New Zealand people) in art.
Art maori.
Art maori > Histoire.
Maoris > Histoire.
Maoris > Dans l'art.
Table of Contents:
  • He kupu whakataki : preface
  • Timatanga kōrero : introduction
  • Part 1: Te Kete Tuatea. Ngā momo waka: Moana, migration and Māori / Ngarino Ellis ; Tā Hekenukumaingāiwi Busby, KNZM MBE (1932-2019) / Ngarino Ellis
  • Ngā toi whakairo: the arts of carving / Ngarino Ellis ; The Taiapa brothers: carving in the twentieth century / Ngarino Ellis ; Morelli and the nineteenth-century papahou artist / Ngarino Ellis ; Māori art and archaeology / Deidre Brown
  • Ngā kākahu: textiles / Ngarino Ellis ; Tahuaroa, pākūwhā and hākari: the display and gifting of taonga / Ngarino Ellis ; Tihei mauri ora: the remaking of cloaks from museum collections / Ngarino Ellis
  • Ngā whare: architecture / Deirdre Brown and Ngarino Ellis ; Pakaariki Harrison, QSO (1928-2008) / Ngarino Ellis
  • Ngā toi whenua: rock art / Deidre Brown
  • Ngā taonga o Wharawhara: body adornment / Ngarino Ellis ; Areta Wilkinson / Deidre Brown ; Pounamu / Ngarino Ellis
  • Mana wāhine, mana tāne, mana takatāpui: depicting gender in Māori art / Ngarino Ellis ; Men and weaving / Ngarino Ellis
  • Part 2: Te Kete Tuauri. Taonga, Māori and museums / Ngarino Ellis ; Tāngata mamae: the tragic story of Te Maro, Ranginui and Te Kuku / Ngarino Ellis ; Joseph Banks and the forty brass patu replicas / Ngarino Ellis ; Tupaia / Ngarino Ellis
  • Māori art and the Christian missions / Deidre Brown ; Hongi Hika's self-portraits / Deidre Brown ; Hone Heke's 'collar' / Deidre Brown ; He tikanga hōu? Figurative art in Rangitukia in 1838 / Ngarino Ellis
  • The art of utu / Deidre Brown ; The Mātaatua wharenui / Jonathan Mane-Wheoki
  • Transforming cultures and traditions: new materials, ideas and technologies / Ngarino Ellis ; Moko signatures and tino rangatiratanga / Ngarino Ellis ; Early Māori drawings / Deidre Brown ; The second age of iron / Deidre Brown
  • Ngā toi mōrehu: the arts of survival / Deidre Brown ; Māori flags and banners / Deidre Brown
  • Ka whawhai tonu mātou: Taonga and museums since 1900 / Ngarino Ellis ; Trick or taonga: the mysterious case of the green-painted patu pora / Deidre Brown ; Fakes in the collection / Ngarino Ellis ; Collecting the ancestors / Ngarino Ellis ; Enrico Giglioli and the taonga collection in the Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography, Rome / Ngarino Ellis
  • Part 3: Te Kete Aronui. The art of social reform: Te Puea, Ngata and Rātana / Diedre Brown ; Te Araiteuru pā at the 1906 New Zealand International Exhibition / Deidre Brown
  • The emergence of contemporary Māori art 1950-1975 / Jonathan Mane-Wheoki ; Oriwa Haddon (1898-1958) / Deidre Brown and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki ; Ramai Hayward (1916-2014) / Deidre Brown and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki ; Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury (1926-1977) / Deidre Brown
  • Urban Māori art and architecture / Deidre Brown ; Street art / Deidre Brown
  • A new tradition or old disruption? Contemporary Māori exhibitions 1990-2021 / Deidre Brown ; Māori architects and architectural designers / Deidre Brown ; Māori designers / Deidre Brown ; Māori moving image exhibition / Ngarino Ellis ; Wairau Māori Art Gallery: the first public Māori art gallery / Deidre Brown
  • Māori art in Western Europe and Australia / Deidre Brown ; Ngāti Rānana and Hinemihi / Deidre Brown and Ngarino Ellis ; Māori art as a cultural property / Deidre Brown
  • Haumi ē! Hui ē! Tāiki ē! Māori and Indigenous art on the global stage / Ngarino Ellis ; Ngā taonga uku: Māori ceramicists and clay workers / Deidre Brown ; Contemporary Māori clothing / Deidre Brown ; Advice to Māori artists / Jonathan Mane-Wheoki
  • Whakamutunga : conclusion.