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9781932771756
Ancient Marks : The Sacred Origins of Tattoos and Body Markings order quantity
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NZ$ 100.00 each
Paperback
Author: Chris Rainier
In Stock: 1
During seven years of travel to seven continents and thirty countries, Chris Rainier photographed the traditions od tattooing, scarifications, piercing and other forms of body-altering art, origins of which date to the dawn of mankind. Here in Ancient Marks: the Sacred Origins of Tattoos and Body Marking, Rainier presents more than one hundred elegant black and white images, revealing the haunting beauty of these often mystical forms. These striking images document humanity's enduring efforts to tell stories,forge identities and create links to the divine through body art.

From the African savannah to the barrios of Los Angeles, from New Zealand to Eygpt, and Brazel to Burkina Faso, Rainier follows these marks on the human body to the powerful meanings that resonate within.

Ancient Marks also includes a DVD featuring an expanded photo gallery with music by Anoushka Shankar.
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9780143204084
Bible and Treaty : Missionaries Among the Maori - a New Perspective order quantity
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Paperback
Author: Keith Newman
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Bible & Treaty: Missionaries among the Maori is a complex and colourful adventure of faith, bravery, perseverance and betrayal that seeks to recover lost connections in the story of modern New Zealand. It brings a fresh perspective to the missionary story, from the lead-up to Samuel Marsden's first sermon on New Zealand soil, and the intervening struggle for survival and understanding, to the dramatic events that unfolded around the Treaty of Waitangi and the disillusionment that led to the Land Wars in the 1860s. While some missionaries clearly failed to live up to their high calling, the majority committed their lives to Maori and were instrumental in spreading Christianity, brokering peace between warring tribes, and promoting literacy - publishing, for instance, the first indigenous-language Bible in the Southern Hemisphere. This highly readable account, from the author of Ratana Revisited: An Unfinished Legacy (2006) and Ratana: ... more
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9781869694111
Contested Ground : Te Whenua I Tohea - The Taranaki Wars 1860-1881 order quantity
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NZ$ 60.00 each
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Author: Kelvin Day
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The first shots were fired on Wiremu Kingi's Te Kohia pa on 17 March 1860, marking the start of twenty-one years of direct conflict between Maori and Pakeha in the Taranaki region interspersed with periods of uneasy peace, culminating in the invasion of the Parihaka settlement on 5 November 1881. In Contested Ground: Te Whenua i Tohea, Kelvin Day brings together eleven distinguished academics and historians who provide fresh and engaging insights into this turbulent period, much sourced from previously overlooked material, and a remarkable collection of photographs and illustrations. 2010 marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Taranaki Wars, and this thoughtful and informative volume helps shed new light on the people and political landscape of 19th century Taranaki and the legacy of the wars on the history of Aotearoa New Zealand.
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9781877242441
Encircled Lands : Te Urewera, 1820-1921 order quantity
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NZ$ 79.99 each
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Author: Judith Binney
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Finalist in the General Non-Fiction category.

During the nineteenth century the Urewera was a remote but enticing wilderness except for the Maori who lived there, for them it was a sheltering homeland. In 1866-67 large areas were taken by confiscation or forced cession.At the end of the fighting in 1872 the Urewera became an autonomous district, governed by its own leaders. In 1921-22 the Urewera Native Reserve was abolished in law. This book provides the historical context for Tuhoe's quest for the restoration of their 'nationhood'.
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9781869711160
Haka : A living Tradition (2nd edition 2007) order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author: Wira Gardiner
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A source of pride or a source of controversy, the haka is an integral part of New Zealand's culture. The haka has always been a vital part of Maori culture and tradition. Today it has a growing influence on the lives of all New Zealanders. It provides a powerful and dramatic vehicle for welcoming visitors, challenging opponents, rejoicing in victory and for celebrating culture and a way of life. This story of the haka begins with its origins in the mists of time and looks at its place in legend and in the early Maori world, and the observations of the first European explorers, missionaries and settlers. It discusses the various haka types, the roles of men and women, the origins and importance of the well-known Ka Mate! haka, and how this special dance has been used in war, sport and politics. The book covers recent developments in haka, such as the rising popularity of haka competitions and the new All Black haka.
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9781869712082
Haka Unique New Zealand order quantity
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NZ$ 15.00 each
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Author: Wira Gardiner
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Most visitors to New Zealand identify New Zealand with the haka, but few know the meaning or history of this powerful challenge. This little book is a beginner's guide to haka, covering the various types of haka and their use including the famous Ka Mate haka and the new Kapa O Pango. Both black and white and full colour photographs showcase the haka in history as well as modern renditions by kapa haka groups. Both a source of pride and a source of controversy, the haka is an integral part of New Zealand's culture.
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9780790010595
Ihenga : Te Haerenga Hou _ the evolution of Maori carving in the 20th century - out of print order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Lyonel Grant & Damian Skinner
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The Evolution of Maori Carving in the 20th Century
This project explores master carver Lyonel Grant’s carved meeting house, Ihenga, at Waiariki Polytechnic in Rotorua. It looks at the connection between customary and contemporary Maori art, and how Grant has built on his heritage as a customary carver in Ihenga, creating a dialogue through his carving about the development of Mäori art into the 21st century.
The book is both a history of Maori art and a study of one artist and a particular whare whakairo.
The carving of Ihenga is documented in words and photos – a valuable record of this creative process.

First published 2007.
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9781877242168
Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi order quantity
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NZ$ 31.70 each
Paperback
Author: Claudia Orange
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Few subjects in recent years have created as much debate as the Treaty of Waitangi. Its history is a fascinating one, that embraces not only events of 1840 but also forces leading to the making of a treaty and the impacts, protests, and negotiations that followed for the next century and a half.

Claudia Orange offers here a straightforward account of a complex narrative. A wide range of illustrations brings the history to life: the different kinds of people who negotiated and signed the Treaty are vividly presented, the many periods of our past are portrayed; the context of this important document comes to life throughout the book.Perhaps the most significant feature of this book is the remarkable summary of the events of the 1980s and 1990s. In these years, the Waitangi Tribunal and iwi undertook massive research, to establish the validity of land claims; major settlements were made, and more claims are close to settlement.

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9780790010106
Ka Tahi: hei tama tu tama (Maori Fibre Techniques) order quantity
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author: Mick Pendergrast
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This book is a valuable record and catalogue of Maori fibre techniques, including plaiting, weaving, braiding, miro, single pair twining, double pair twining, close twining, taniko, twining with rigid materials (fish traps), netting, knotless netting, tukutuku, windmill knotting and wickerwork. It includes black and white and colour photos, plus line drawings of different techniques and patterns. Many of these techniques are not recorded elsewhere, and are at risk of dying out. Mick’s descriptions and illustrations are practical and easy to follow.

First published 2005.
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9780143011125
Maori Architecture : From Fale to Wharenui and Beyond order quantity
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NZ$ 70.00 each
Hardback
Author: Deidre Brown
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Finalist in the Illustrated Non-Fiction category.

A landmark achievement in New Zealand history, Maori Architecture charts, for the first time, the genesis and form of indigenous buildings in Aotearoa New Zealand. It explores the vast array of Maori-designed structures and spaces - how they evolved over time, and how they tell the story of an ever-changing people. Throughout this captivating story, the book looks at facets of early Polynesian settlement, the influence of Christian and western technology, the buildings of religio-political movements such as Ringatu, Parihaka and Ratana, post-war urban migration, and contemporary architecture. Deidre Brown's absorbing, informed and sometimes controversial text is lavishly illustrated with over 130 photos and artworks - all providing a long-overdue and fascinating survey of an important aspect of New Zealand culture and history.
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9781869662448
Maori Art and Design : weaving, painting, carving and architecture order quantity
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Paperback
Author: Julie Paama-Pengelly
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Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship, Maori Art and Design takes a fresh look at the Maori visual arts, with an emphasis not so much on the history of craft as on the design itself. Covering tattooing, drawing and painting, carving and weaving, the book explores the origination, evolution, and significance of the designs, and also explains the materials and techniques used to create them. The book is illustrated throughout with a mix of black-and-white and colour photography, representing the full range of artefacts from historical to contemporary. The book will appeal to a wide readership from general trade and tourists to educational.
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9780143010272
Maori Arts of the Gods order quantity
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NZ$ 30.80 each
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Author: Deidre Brown & Brian Brake (photos)
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Traditional objects of great beauty, made of wood, bone, greenstone, feathers and fibre, are collected in this sumptuous pictorial guide to Maori art. Deidre Brown has selected the finest of Brain Brake's photo's and adds interesting and informed commentary on the Maori gods and legends that inspired these works.
 
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9781869537395
Maori Tribes of New Zealand order quantity
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NZ$ 32.00 each
Paperback
Author: Te Ara online encyclopedia
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Designed for the visitors market this book combines great photos of scenic New Zealand with maps, Maori art and history. Contributors include some of New Zealand's top historians.
A guide to the main Maori tribes written especially for visitors and students, combining great photos of scenic New Zealand with maps, Maori art and history. Written by New Zealand's top Maori historians, this is a perfect compact guidebook to the tribes of New Zealand.
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9780670045617
Mau Moko : The World of Maori Tattoo order quantity
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NZ$ 65.00 each
Hardback
Author: Te Awekotuku Ngahuia with Linda Waimarie Nikora, Mohi Rua & Rolinda Karapu (new photography Becky Nunes)
In Stock: 1
Winner Montana Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture Award 2008

In the traditional Maori world, the moko, or facial or body tattoo, was a sign of great mana and status. Male warriors wore elaborate tattoos on their faces and bodies; women took more delicate chin tattoos. After almost dying out in the twentieth century, Maori tattooing is now experiencing a powerful revival, with many young Maori wearing the moko as a spectacular gesture of racial pride.

Mau Moko is probably the most magnificent book ever produced about the moko, from pre-European times to the present day. It examines the use of tattooing by traditional and contemporary Maori and links it to other aspects of Maori culture. Gender issues are considered along with tattooing techniques both old and new. The book features case studies of modern Maori who have made a personal decision to be tattooed; the role and status of the tattooers; exploitation of the moko in ... more
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9781877242397
Ngai Tahu : A Migration History order quantity
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NZ$ 70.00 each
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Author: Te Maire Tau & Athol Anderson (eds.)
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Te Maire Tau writes: 'I first came across the Carrington typescript in 1987 when, as an under-graduate, I was researching our tribe's history in the Alexander Turnbull Library. Reading the text, I was captured for the rest of the day. Besided the exhilaration that historians always feel on coming across an old and little known manuscript, the story that Carrington told read differently from the standard histories of Ngai Tahu written by nineteenth-century scholars. ...'

English journalist Hugh Carrington wrote a history of Ngai Tahu in the 1930s, drawing on the knowledge of Oaro elder Hariata Beaton-Morel and earlier scholars. This text has been framed and edited by Te Maire Tau and Atholl Anderson, creating a history of Ngai Tahu's migration from the Wellington region through to Rakiura. Complementary traditions, in particular those recorded by Thomas Green, are also included.

This remarkable account presents oral ... more
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9781869694012
Nga Tupuna: The Ancestors order quantity
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NZ$ 65.00 each
Spiral bound
Author: Hilary and John Mitchell
In Stock: 7
The 3rd Volume of the "Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka" series. Published by Wakatu Incorporation and Huia Publishers Ltd.

Contains Maori baptisms, Marriages, censuses, signatories, owners of occupation, tenths and landless native reserves etc.

Invaluable for those with whakapapa connections to Te Tau Ihu (Nelson-Marlborough)

Some baptism and census records of Ngai Tahu people.
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9781869690823
Putea Whakairo : Maori and the Written Word order quantity
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author: Bradford Haami
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Published by The Ministry for Culture and Heritage in association with Huia Publishers.

Author Bradford Haami presents a history of the Ngati Hikatoa people through the writings of seven Maori people spanning four generations of the Maaka family. Included are genealogies, traditional histories, and personal documents written in Maori and in English that date from 1848-1978. Ranging from pepeha and waiata to the bleakly beautiful diaries of a mutton-birder, the documents collected in this book are a rare and intriguing window into the real lives of their authors.
This valuable reference work also illustrates how whanau, hapu and iwi holding private Maori manuscripts can safeguard and share ancestors’ precious works for the future.
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9781877372612
Rauru : Tene Waitere, Maori Carving, Colonial History order quantity
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NZ$ 120.00 each
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Author: Nicholas Thomas (ed) (photography Mark Adams; interviews James Schuster & Lyonel Grant)
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Tene Waitere of Ngati Tarawhai (1854-1931) was the most innovative Maori carver of his time; his works reached global audiences decades before the globalisation of culture became a fashionable topic.
Rauru is the highlight of a famous anthropological museum in Germany. Hinemihi, the carved house featured in one section of this book, sheltered survivors of the Tarawera eruption in 1886 before being removed to the park of an English country house. His carved Ta Moko panel is one of Te Papa the Museum of New Zealand's icons. Three out of four historic Maori meeting-houses located outside New Zealand were carved or partly carved by Waitere. The travels of his work tell us something about the interplay between empire and art, about what is made of history now. The combined perspectives of his descendants, of a leading contemporary carver, of a master photographer and a distinguished anthropologist and historian of Pacific art ... more
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9781877246906
Taonga Tuku Iho: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Maori Life order quantity
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Hardback
Author: A.W. Reed
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Arranged alphabetically for easy reference, the text summarises all important elements, influences and features of pre-European Maori life.
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9780143009344
Te Kahui O Matariki : Contemporary Maori Art of Matariki order quantity
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NZ$ 65.00 each
Hardback
Author: Libby Hakaraia & Colleen Waata Urlich (eds)
In Stock: 1
A large scale book containing contemporary artwork, photography, poetry and short writings including personal experiences of Matariki - the Maori New Year. Beginning with an introduction and background to Matariki the book features full-page reproductions of 41 contemporary Maori artworks, and is a rich resource of Matariki proverbs, stories and knowledge.

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9780473132170
Te Wahi Pounamu (The Place of Greenstone) order quantity
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NZ$ 60.00 each
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Author: Alfred Moreton
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Stories within this book tell of a time long since gone, when huge greenstones were discovered by first diggers in their quest for gold, on the West Coast of the South Island. The author established the second greenstone factory in Hokitika in the late sixties when the industry first started.
Huge and famous stones like The Nicholson Boulder - the largest high quality alluvial stone ever found in Westland, are featured. Beautiful sculptures, carvings and jewellery crafted from the stones all hold within them a fascinating story of this industry, so different to today with over 95% of all greenstone sold in New Zealand, made in China.
Learn all there is to know about New Zealand's national stone - how to work the stone and the varieties. Plus, with the Vesting Act returning all greenstone to our Maori people making it illegal to take the stone from creeks or river beds, find out where you can still go and search for the treasure and ... more
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9781869404369
The Dragon and the Taniwha: Maori and Chinese in New Zealand order quantity
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Author: Manying Ip (ed)
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How have two very different marginalised groups in New Zealand society - Maori and Chinese - interacted over the last 150 years? This important book, the result of a major grant from the Marsden Fund, looks at the relationship between the tangata whenua and the country's earliest and largest non-European immigrant group for the first time. Do Maori resent Chinese immigrants? Do Chinese New Zealanders understand the role of the tangata whenua? Have Maori and Chinese formed alliances based on common values and history? Contributors tackle such question from many angles. They analyse how Maori newspapers portrayed Chinese and how the Chinese media portray Maori; they examine the changing demography of the Chinese and Maori populations; they look at Maori-Chinese marriages and the ancient migration of both groups. The result is a rich portrait of the past and present of relationships between two important immigrant groups. Race relations ... more
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9780897326582
The Quest for Kaitiakitanga : the ancient Maori secret from New Zealand that could save the earth order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Richard Bangs
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The Ancient Maori Secret That Could Save the Earth,"Kaitiakitanga, " an ancient Maori concept meaning "guardianship of the land," has undergone a revival in New Zealand and is fueling an increasingly popular eco-movement. Structured by Richard Bangs as a grand adventure, this book looks at how the Maori way is becoming the modern way. Bangs' expedition includes heli-hiking, ice-climbing, kayaking, and more as he travels through New Zealand's stunning landscapes. Along the way, the author encounters threatened wildlife, massive trees that pre-date Christ, monumental glaciers, and the kinds of advances fostered by kaitiakitanga, from radically designed eco-lodges to paradigm-shifting native ventures.
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9781877385346
Toi Ora : Ancestral Maori Treasures order quantity
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NZ$ 50.00 each
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Author: Huhata Smith & Arapata Hakiwai (eds)
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This exceptional book highlights over 120 taonga tuku iho (ancestral Maori treasures) from Te Papa's collections. Rich images of these precious objects, are accompanied by stories from the artists who created the taonga, the people who used them in daily life, and their living descendants. Items include traditional carvings, weapons, waka huia (treasure containers), jewellery, and taonga such as puppets used by tohunga (ritual experts) and tools for tamoko (customary skin marking). Maps, diagrams, and additional photographs - both archival and contemporary - elaborate on the making of the taonga, and elucidate Maori life, art, and beliefs.
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9781869536251
Vaka Moana : Voyages of the Ancestors - the discovery and settlement of the Pacific order quantity
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NZ$ 90.00 each
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Author: K R Howe (ed)
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Vaka Moana is a story of origins and identity; a voyage across thousands of miles and hundreds of generations, and a testament to the ingenuity and bravery of humankind.

Published to accompany a major international travelling exhibition of the same name opening at Auckland Museum on 6 December 2006 in the new exhibition gallery, Vaka Moana brings together the latest scholarship on the peopling of the Pacific, traditional voyaging and navigation, and the modern renaissance of voyaging that has brought a resurgence in interest in Pacific cultures.

Leading New Zealand and international scholars, writers and practitioners discuss the oral traditions of the great voyagers; the exploration and settlement of the Pacific (the last place on earth to be settled by people); the craft that made the journeys possible and the navigation methods that took people safely across empty oceans; the fateful meeting of two cultures - ... more
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9780790007151
Waka Taua: the Maori War Canoe- out of print order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Jeff Evans
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Waka Taua gives a concise introduction to the Maori war canoe. Key areas covered by the book include waka traditions, types and variants of the canoe, phases of building, parts of the waka, responsibilities of the crew and paddling the craft. With numerous historical and contemporary photographs and drawings, Waka Taua is an easily-read tribute to this timeless expression of tribal identity and power.
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9780790011387
Whare Korero: Best of Reed Writing order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Gavin McLean - Ed
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Dop 2007, Auckland

Structured by decade, this anthology showcases some of the most memorable and well-loved books produced by the country's oldest publishing house, Reed Publishing. Historian Gavin McLean has poured over national archives, private collections and company documents to bring together extracts from nearly 100 publications - pamphlets, pictorials, fiction, general history, Maoritanga, poetry, sport, cookery, reference, the outdoors and more - to celebrate the diversity and phenomenal output of new New Zealand books by Reed, a tradition that continues into the twenty-first century. Barry Crump, Mona Anderson and James K. Baxter are now household names and they are joined in the anthology by other New Zealand writers for Reed such as Dennis Glover, Janet Frame, James Cowan, David McGill, Anne Salmond, Frank Sargeson, Mona Anderson, Witi Ihimaera, Bill Manhire, Allen Curnow, Fleur Adcock, Philip Holden, Peter Wells, ... more
 

Maori issues
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9781877399411
Exploring Maori Values order quantity
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author: John Patterson
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This book, first published in 1992, offers Pakeha New Zealanders an insight into Maori thought and values and the basis for the sort of understanding and partnership that should exist between Pakeha and Maori. It also presents a new perspective from which long-held Pakeha values can be reassessed.
John Patterson attempts, as an investigative philosopher, to come to grips with personal, embedded limitations that inform any look into one world-view from the perspective of another. He demonstrates a high degree of empathy with and respect for Maori and the book offers a practical model for engagement with this culture and for greater mutual understanding.
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9781877242434
In/visible Sight : The Mixed-Descent Families of Southern New Zealand order quantity
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author: Angela Wanhalla
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Examines the early history of cross-cultural encounter, contact and colonisation in southern New Zealand. Ngai Tahu engaged with the European newcomers from the 1820s, encountering systematic settlement from the 1840s, and fighting land alienation and erosion of resource rights from the mid-nineteenth century. The evolving social world was one framed by marriage practices, kinship networks and cultural practices - a world in which interracial intimacy played a formative role. Recipient of the prestigious Roheath Trust Award and Carl Smith Medal in 2008, Angela Wanhalla (Ngai Tahu) lectures in history at the University of Otago.

First published November 2009
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9780864736116
Maori and the State: Crown-Maori Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa 1950-2000 order quantity
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NZ$ 60.00 each
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Author: Richard S. Hill
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This book examines the principal interrelationships between the Crown and Maori through the 1950s and 60s, when Crown assimilationist policies intensified, and in the period from the 1970s, when the pressure of the 'Maori Renaissane' encouraged policies and goals based upon biculturalism (although Crown motivations were and remain problematic).
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9780864736123
Raupatu : The Confiscation of Maori Land order quantity
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NZ$ 60.00 each
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Author: Richard Boast & Richard Hills (editors)
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A ground-breaking collection of essays by leading scholars - Bryan Gilling, James Belich, John C. Weaver, Alan Ward, Michael Allen, Mark Hickford, Vincent O'Malley, Judith Binney, Dion Tuuta, Alex Frame and Richard S. Boast - that examines the confiscation of Maori land in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the broader imperial context.
 

Maori myths & legends
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9780143503415
How Maui Found His Father and the Magic Jawbone order quantity
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Author: Peter Gossage
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Reprinted for a new generation, Peter Gossage's illustrated books bring these ancient maori tales to life.

In this tale Maui is happy to have found his mother but wants to find his father. He follows his mother into the underworld and discovers his father and grandfather. This is where is obtains the magic jawbone from his grandfather. The magic jawbone with which he tames the sun and fishes up land from the sea...
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9781869508722
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Author: Andy Reisinger & Chris Winitana
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It was a pristine world, green, natural, untainted. Aotearoa New Zealand was covered with gigantic trees and delicate ferns, a landscape teeming with wildlife, especially birds of impossible shapes and heavenly sounds. It was paradise.
Then people came. And as the centuries passed, a little more of the land was despoiled, a few more species of wildlife disappeared forever. But the original Maori settlers remembered the land as it was and recorded its life in elaborate and splendid stories that became the legends of Aotearoa.
Now, in this breathtaking book, Chris Winitana re-tells fourteen of the favourite stories of the Maori people, accompanied by over one hundred colour photographs by Andy Reisinger that show the paradise that was - and is - New Zealand. The book includes many of the best-known stories - the legends of Maui, Kupe, the Arawa canoe, Rona and the moon - and some less well known, such as the legend of the walking ... more
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9780958218276
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Mixed-media pack
Author: Joyce Paraone-Hemana & Jane Rushton (ill.)
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Revival of an Ancient Method of Divination and Prophesy of the Polynesian Maori

Matakite-o-Maui is in fact a very ancient system of divination for prophesy used by the Maori seers and prophets. It is created around Maui-tikitiki-a-Te Ranga, otherwise known as Maui, a demi-god, a hero by his many feats, and also an ancient ancestor to Maori.

Accounts of Maui’s life are portrayed in the form of twelve myths which describe the deeds and useful devices he created to benefit mankind, and these are portrayed in the divination rite using beautifully illustrated Tarot cards.

Paperback with 12 Tarot cards

First published November 2008, Auckland
 

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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869793302
A Life On Gorge River : New Zealand's remotest family order quantity
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Author: Robert Long
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Robert Long and his family - wife Catherine, and children Christan (17) and Robyn (14) - live in complete isolation, in a hut two days' walk south of Haast in South Westland. Robert has lived there for nearly 30 years; Catherine for 20 and the kids all their lives. Their only contact with the outside world is a helicopter or plane once a month, and two trips a year to the 'outside world'.This is the story of how and why Robert - known locally as 'Beansprout' - came to live at Gorge River, and the family's experiences there over the years, living self-sufficiently and forging close bonds with the natural environment. It is an inspiring tale of one man's decision to 'drop out' of capitalist society and successfully establish a lifestyle most New Zealanders can't even imagine, harking back to the days of the earliest pioneers.

First published June 2010.

Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h234mm x w152mm 412g picture sections
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877333217
Angelina : From Stromboli to D'Urville Island order quantity
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Author: Gerard Hindmarsh
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In 1906, at just 16 years of age, Angelina Criscillo left the tiny volcanic island of Stromboli, off Sicily, to travel to an even remoter island on the other side of the world.

From the age of eight she had been betrothed to her cousin, Vincenzo Moleta, who was now twice her age and taking her to a new life on D'Urville Island in New Zealand.Facing the fierce tides and weather of this wild island on the edge of Cook Strait, and having to cope with loneliness, the incessant toil of a pioneer farm, and the bitterness of a developing family feud, Angelina found solace in an unlikely friendship with a high-born Maori woman, Wetekia Ruruku Elkington, who lived near by. Together they shared their own struggles, their different cultures and lack of English language; a process that awakened Angelina to her own inner strengths. Angelina and Vincenzo finally left D'Urville Island in 1946 and both died within a few months of each other in ... more
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9780143203827
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Author: Trevor Bentley
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In a frontier society full of colourful characters in early nineteenth century New Zealand, Jacky Marmon, more commonly known as Cannibal Jack, was more colourful than most. Jumping ship off the New Zealand coast, he first lived among Ngapuhi at the Bay of Islands, where he acquired five wives and served his chief as a trader and white priest. Joining Hongi Hika's great Musket Wars campaigns against the Tamaki and Kaipara tribes, he claimed to have served as Hika's personal war tohunga. He survived to settle in the Hokianga from 1823 and was involved in Hone Heke's Flagstaff War of 1845. In this biography of a wonderfully curious character, the author of the bestselling Pakeha Maori traces Marmon's life and times, drawing on his own knowledge and research as well as on Marmon's own - not always reliable - personal accounts.

About the author:
Trevor Bentley was educated at the universities of Auckland and Waikato and has a ... more
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9781869792800
Dust to Gold : The inspiring story of Bendigo Station home of Shrek order quantity
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Author: John Perriam (photography Stephen Jaquiery)
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Shrek may be the star of Bendigo Station, but the back-story of the station is rich and fascinating, from its earliest days as the scene of New Zealand's richest quartz reef gold strike in the 1860s to its establishment as a 11,000 hectare sheep station producing many of New Zealand's highest quality top price Merino clips. As well as this it's now home to several leading Pinot Noir vineyards, public walkways, a historic reserve and fishing and game hunting. None of this recent development would have come about if it weren't for the far-sighted, entrepreneurial and innovative owners, John and Heather Perriam. They took on Bendigo in the late 1970s after the Clyde Dam project forced them off the nearby family farm. They had spent several years in ultimately fruitless battles with bureaucracy, trying to stop the dam project from going ahead. Things weren't easy at Bendigo Station either. Chief among their problems was a rabbit plague ... more
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780959797497
Grady's People: Unforgettable Characters in the Top of the South Island order quantity
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Author: Don Grady
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The people Don Grady met with on his travels around the highways and byways of the top of the South Island include an old one-legged, one-eyed trout poacher who, as he matured, suddenly saw the light of reform and is now a much sought-after professional gamekeeper and hunting and fishing guide at Cape Jackson.
Other notable characters include a sculptor who can provide you with a Tutankhamen replica coffin, or a Golden Bay man who is growing agave to try and launch a new New Zealand tequila industry.

A very entertaining book!
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780958289825
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Author: Don Grady
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This is the fourth installment of "Grady's People."
First published October 2009.

Don Grady has managed to unearth another 16 characters in the Top of the South Island. A major portion of this volume is the fascinating story of Duncan Rutherford and his huge collection of cars and other motor vehicles.
 
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