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Kōrero: Whakairo – Māori carving

Ko Hōri Pukehika e hahau ana me tana toki, i te tau 1906

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Hōri Pukehika carving with a toki, 1906

He mea whakamahi te toki hei tārai i te whakairo, i mua i te whaoa ki te tā me te uhi. Heoi, arā anō ngā tohunga whakairo pērā i a Hōri Pukehika (e whakaaturia ana i konei ki te Whakakitenga Māori i Ōtautahi) o Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi ki Whanganui, i āhei te whakaoti whakairo ki te toki kapukapu anake. I te wā i tangohia ai tēnei whakaahua, he torutoru noa iho ngā tohunga i te whakamahi tonu i te toki kapukapu. Mai i tēra wā kua whakaorangia mai te mātauranga o te toki kapukapu.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/2-005558-F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Brett Graham, Whakairo – Māori carving – Carving materials and techniques, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/43051/ko-hori-pukehika-e-hahau-ana-me-tana-toki-i-te-tau-1906 (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Brett Graham, i tāngia i te 21 October 2013.