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… Keith’s documentary series reviewing New Zealand’s art history, The big picture . Newspapers Newspapers have … of art reviews. DANZ Quarterly reviewed dance performances. Māori reviewers Apirana Ngata’s 1928 introduction to the … collection Ngā m oteatea provided a critical overview of Māori song and poetry. The Department of Māori Affairs …
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Part of story: Arts reviewing
… pick up the pilot. The kindness of a Pākehā whaler and his Māori wife endeared the Māori people and the town (in which he settled) to the young … made his real contribution to New Zealand's maritime history. The duties of these well-known ships took them to …
Type: Biography
… houses) continued to be built as a powerful assertion of Māori identity. Most were urban and pan-tribal (such as Ngā … posts) contain an element of irony. Grant depicts ‘urban Māori’ with the familiar manaia (beaked) head from New … expert on whakapapa, whaikōrero (speech-making) and tribal history. His students included artists such as Cliff Whiting …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… has towering, bleached sand dunes, some up to 170 m high. Māori history The harbour’s full name, Hokianga-nui-a-Kupe – the … with the famous Polynesian explorer. Hokianga has a long Māori history, and a strong Ngāpuhi presence today. European …
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Part of story: Northland places
… sketches are a vital window onto the landscape and natural history of early New Zealand. Cook honoured both men by … while Spöring Island off Tolaga Bay is today known by its Māori name, Pourewa. Scandinavia’s maritime history stretches back to the Vikings. It is no surprise …
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Part of story: Scandinavians
… century masters; but he specialised in portraits of Māori, the first of which were painted in Nelson where he … an urgent need for a pictorial record of the traditional Māori, and over the next 30 or so years he commissioned from … Lindauer was associated with the popular writer on Māori history James Cowan , who compiled a descriptive catalogue …
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… environment for engendering a fascination with both natural history and wealthy respectability. About 1853 Reischek … an Austrian Reischek was advantaged in his relations with Māori in the period following the wars of the 1860s. To help … failed he did not hesitate to use subterfuge, often turning Māori customs, such as fear of tapu, to his advantage. He …
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… Polynesian Society and author of numerous texts on tribal history and traditions. In his book Hawaiki, the original … His method was to develop a view on the origins of the Māori people by analysing the traditions held by Māori in his time. This method had widespread acceptance and …
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Part of story: Hawaiki
… Both Māori and non-Māori political leaders have served as important cultural go-betweens throughout New Zealand’s colonial history. However, many have found it difficult (and … to teach the governor the language, customs, traditions and history of his people. From their combined efforts came a …
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Part of story: Cultural go-betweens
… Māori and their Polynesian forebears have been island … beginnings. The sea dominated traditional Polynesian and Māori life for many practical reasons. It was an essential … ocean by Ruatepupuke and Mataora. In some genealogies human history is traced from fish to amphibian, before finally …
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Part of story: Tangaroa – the sea
… Range of traditional waiata Māori have an extensive tradition of song and dance which … functions and are used in a variety of contexts in Māori culture and society. A waiata may be used to support a … of calamity and misfortune. Additionally, waiata document history, recalling the past through mentions of ancestors, …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori songs – waiata tawhito
… region dominated by Pākehā. Colonists needed land, and Māori resistance to its sale is the subject of Octavius … the story of a deserter who preferred to fight for the Māori, and his two-volume study, The New Zealand w ars ( … a confidence in the values of progress. Walter Buller ’s A history of the birds of New Zealand (1888) demonstrates the …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… role in the cultural and political renaissance of Māori in the 1970s and 1980s. He contributed to the renegotiation of relations between the Crown and Māori as well as offering a critique of the racism of core … politics. It presented a Māori perspective on the nation’s history, passing from pre-European Māori history and …
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… Tapu collected information on Moriori traditions and history from living authorities in the Chatham Islands, and … entitled The Moriori people of the Chatham Islands: their history and traditions. The book also dealt with the Jean …
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… although some iwi retained regional knowledge. Some new Māori faiths, such as Ringatū, incorporated aspects of … new customs. Revival At the beginning of the 21st century Māori began to revive the practice of celebrating Matariki … ancestors of Māori, including the Polynesians of ancient history, welcomed Matariki by flying kites. Public holiday …
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Part of story: Matariki – Te Tau Hou Māori
… and Mt Stokes (1,203 m) is the highest in the Sounds. Māori history Wairau Bar is a 13th-century Polynesian settlement … site, among the earliest known in New Zealand. The Māori history of Marlborough is in large part a story of …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… the marae, and consequently grew up a fluent speaker of Māori with a deep knowledge of marae protocol. He was raised as a Catholic. At a time when few Māori went on to high school, Matt Te Hau cycled seven miles … on hold by the Second World War. After studying English and history at Auckland University College, Matt enlisted in the …
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… a paramount chief in later life, was an authority on Tūhoe history and traditions, and widely respected as a wise and … employed by the Native Department (later the Department of Māori Affairs) as a resident foreman. His knowledge of … some of the Tūhoe claims, he became a member of the Tūhoe Māori Trust Board and also sat on the Tūhoe Māori Land …
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… 1970s social activism was on the rise around the world. Māori activism in New Zealand focused on urbanisation, land … and local thought and writing was influential, and soon Māori were writing their own works in support of radical … Te ao h urihuri In 1975 Te ao hurihuri , a book of Māori perspectives edited by Pākehā historian Michael King , …
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… friendship Henry Fletcher decided to become a missionary to Māori. His application to become a student for the … theology, Greek and Hebrew. He also spent time learning Māori. In May 1893, in response to a request for a … of the New Zealand Institute . He wrote mainly on the Māori history of Taupō, and also compiled an index of Māori names. …
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