Ngatokimatawhaorua - The Biography of a Waka by Jeff Evans
$50.00 NZD
Category: Maori culture and history
Ngatokimatawhaorua, the longest waka taua to be built in modern times, is a national taonga and resides at the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi. The inspiration for its construction came from Te Puea Harangi's dream to build seven waka for the 1940 centennial commemorations of the signing of the Treaty of Wai ...Show more
Ngā Kaihanga Uku: Māori Clay Artists by Baye Riddell
$70.00 NZD
Category: Maori culture and history
This book is the first comprehensive overview of Māori claywork - its origins, its loss and its revival. Richly illustrated, it introduces readers to the practices of the five founders of Ngā Kaihanga Uku (the national clayworkers' collective) and surveys the work of the next generation.
Rebuilding the Kainga - Lessons from Te Ao Hurihuri (BWB Texts) by Jade Kake
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: BWB texts | Reading Level: very good
Home can and should be a source of wellbeing, a place that connects us to our whanau, community, land, culture and history. Pre-nineteenth-century Maori society was complex: rich tribal economies were built and flourished, and there was a focus on valuing the whenua and resources that supported all. The ...Show more
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris
$100.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Second hand. Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History charts the sweep of Māori history from ancient origins through to the twenty-first century. Through narrative and images, it offers a striking overview of the past, grounded in specific localities and histories.The story begins with the migration of a ...Show more
Taonga Tuku Iho: Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Maori Life - Revised edition by A. W. Reed (Author) , Buddy Mikaere (Revised by)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Maori culture and history
his revised edition of the classic A.W. Reed title remains true to the original vision - to create a highly readable and accessible introduction to the traditional life and customs of Maori. The text is arranged alphabetically and includes: . Entries covering agriculture, fishing, gardening, hunting, ga ...Show more
Tattooed History: The Story of Mokomokai by Kirkwood Paterson
$80.00 NZD
Category: Maori culture and history | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Tattooed History: The Story of Mokomokai traces the history, the preservation and the great success among collectors all over the world of Moko tattoos. They were used by the Maori people to emphasise their high social status. Through in-depth texts and historical testimonies we can discover and underst ...Show more
Te Ata o Tū: The Shadow of Tumatauenga by Matiu Baker, Katie Cooper, Michael Fitzgerald and Rebecca Rice (editors)
$70.00 NZD
Category: Maori culture and history
The New Zealand Wars of 1845-72 were a series of bitter and bloody conflicts between Maori and Pakeha that extended from Wairau to the Bay of Islands, and from Taranaki to the East Cape. They are as important to New Zealand as the civil wars were to England and to the United States. Land and sovereignty ...Show more
Te Puea - A Life by Michael King
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
Te Puea Herangi, whom Professor John Pocock identified as 'possibly the most influential woman in our political history', wanted an honest biography of her turbulent life. Michael King has written such a book. He did so with the full support of Te Puea's tribe, Tainui, and of her surviving family and pr ...Show more
Te Taiao Maori and The Natural World by Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
$50.00 NZD
Category: Maori culture and history | Reading Level: very good
In traditional Maori knowledge, the weather, birds, fish and trees, sun and moon are related to each other, and to the people of the land, the tangata whenua. It is truly an interconnected world - a vast family of which humans are children of the earth and sky, and cousins to all living things. In this ...Show more
Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds by Anne Salmond
$50.00 NZD
Category: Maori culture and history
Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand, where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes, and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with maps and clocks, grids and fences, and they too adapted to a new island home. In this remo ...Show more
The Fate of the Land | Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira — Māori Political Struggle in the Liberal Era, 1891-1912 by Danny Keenan
$65.00 NZD
Category: Maori culture and history
In the second half of the nineteenth century, settlers poured into Aotearoa demanding land. Millions of acres were acquired by the government or directly by settlers; or confiscated after the Land Wars. By 1891, when the Liberal government came to power, Maori retained only a fraction of their lands. An ...Show more
The Raupo Book of Maori Proverbs by Aw Reed et al.
$25.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Series: 1st | Reading Level: Very Good
Proverbs (or whakatauki) express the wisdom, wit and commonsense of the Maori people. They are of great value and inspiration to writers, story-tellers and anyone speaking in a Maori setting. Several hundred proverbs are contained in The Raupo Book of Maori Proverbs, categorised under a large number of ...Show more