Maori art and design: weaving, painting, carving and architecture

Maker and role
Julie Paama-Pangelly, Author
Production date
2010

Object detail

Accession number
PUB-2017-82.11
Description
Foreword by Professor Robert Jahnke
Introduction: the character of maori art
1. the nature of maori art and design: developing periods in maori art -- the functioning of maori arts -- the scope of maori arts -- defining art and design
2. fibre and woven arts: nga weu: the significance of fibre work -- flax preparation and muka extraction -- miro: thread preparation and plying -- whiri and tauhere -- tukutuku or tuitui -- manu tukutuku: kite making -- ta kupenga and netting techniques -- raranga: plaiting -- whatu: twined basketry -- whatu taniko: hand-twined clothing
3. painted and pigmented arts: nga tuhituhi: drawing and painting -- te ana tuhituhi: rock drawing and painting -- waituhi: paintings wooden objects -- kowaiwai: body painting -- kowhaiwhai: painted scroll designs -- figurative painting developments -- ta moko: permanent skin marking
4. architectural and structural arts: the kainga and settlements -- pa: fortified villages -- whare raupo: reed constructed houses -- wharepuni: sleeping house -- whata and rua kai: food storage structures -- pataka whakairo: carved elevated storehouses -- waka koiwi, whata koiwi: burial structures and bone containers -- waka: canoes -- whare whakairo and whare tupuna: the ancestral meetinghouse -- temples and church buildings
5. sculpted and carved arts: hanga whakairo: carving and sculpted forms -- taputapu kohatu: the stone tool kit -- taonga whakarakai tawhito: early stone, bone and tooth ornaments -- matau and hei matau: fishhooks and fishhook pendants -- hei tiki and figurative personal ornaments -- ahua whakairo rakau: surface patterning on wood -- tiki, manaia and figurative forms in woodcarving -- he mana whakairo: excellence in woodcarving -- whaikairo mana tangata: whakairo as human dignity
Appendix - glossary - bibliography - illustration credits - index
Media/Materials
Physical description
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), charts ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781869662448
Credit line
Julie Paama-Pangelly. 2010. Maori art and design: weaving, painting, carving and architecture, PUB-2017-82.11. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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