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… Keith’s documentary series reviewing New Zealand’s art history, The big picture . Newspapers Newspapers have … JAAM included poetry reviews. The New Zealand Journal of History had a regular section devoted to the review of history in books and (more recently) other media. The …
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Part of story: Arts reviewing
… made his real contribution to New Zealand's maritime history. The duties of these well-known ships took them to … His work enabled Bollons to pursue his interests in natural history and Māori culture. He always welcomed scientists and …
Type: Biography
… expert on whakapapa, whaikōrero (speech-making) and tribal history. His students included artists such as Cliff Whiting … kupu’ (the gathering place of people, the hanging place of history), where the esoteric knowledge of the wānanga was …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… towering, bleached sand dunes, some up to 170 m high. Māori history The harbour’s full name, Hokianga-nui-a-Kupe – the … 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 … 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
… Lindauer was associated with the popular writer on Māori history James Cowan , who compiled a descriptive catalogue … a sense of likeness in many of his Māori portraits, the history he represented is very much a European construct – a …
Type: Biography
… environment for engendering a fascination with both natural history and wealthy respectability. About 1853 Reischek … von Hochstetter , intendant of the Imperial Natural History Museum. When in 1876 Hochstetter was asked by Julius … seems to have been to amass an ethnological and natural history collection with which he could return to Vienna to …
Type: Biography
… Polynesian Society and author of numerous texts on tribal history and traditions. In his book Hawaiki, the original homeland of the Maori (1904), Smith advanced his theories as to the physical … region of present-day Iraq. Alfred K. Newman ’s Who are the Maoris? (1912) is an example of a work that argues for the …
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Part of story: Hawaiki
… cultural go-betweens throughout New Zealand’s colonial history. However, many have found it difficult (and … and Māori. Recognising that he needed to win the respect of Maori, Grey developed friendships with a number of chiefs, … 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
… 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
… 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
… One of England’s little wars (1860) and John Gorst ’s The Maori king (1864). Later, the wars themselves were … a confidence in the values of progress. Walter Buller ’s A history of the birds of New Zealand (1888) demonstrates the … seemed inevitable to many settlers , and Buller’s natural history project had numerous parallels in works designed to …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… politics. It presented a Māori perspective on the nation’s history, passing from pre-European Māori history and … to Māori authorities: ‘Given the impoverishment of Maori people and the previous history of Maori councils … because of under-funding, the present plan …
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… He found it difficult to assert European authority over the Maori residents and to prevent their ill-treatment of the … acted as clerk to the resident magistrate and as a licensed Maori interpreter; in this capacity he served judges and … Tapu collected information on Moriori traditions and history from living authorities in the Chatham Islands, and …
Type: Biography
… 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
… on hold by the Second World War. After studying English and history at Auckland University College, Matt enlisted in the … in Waikato. Their courses in Māori language, culture, history, carving and weaving were held off-campus, usually … university lecturers from Māori studies, anthropology, history, law and other disciplines to act as resource …
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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 … by elders and became an expert on whakapapa and tribal history. He traced his own ancestry back 20 generations to …
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… of the New Zealand Institute . He wrote mainly on the Māori history of Taupō, and also compiled an index of Māori names. … historical articles to the press and published a history of Māori missions, and two Māori-language readers. …
Type: Biography