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Hinemihi: Te Hokinga - The Return by Hamish Coney; Lyonel Grant; James Schuster; Keri-Anne Wikitera; Mark Adams
$60.00 NZD
Category: Māori History
The journey of the carved house Hinemihi o Te Ao Tawhito (Hinemihi of the old world) is one defined by cataclysmic events and the unpredictability of elemental forces. Through eruptions, fires, wars and displacement she has endured. Today she is a revered kuia, adored by her iwi in the United Kingdom an ...Show more
Kia Whakanuia te Whenua: People Place Landscape by Carolyn Hill (ed.)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Māori History | Reading Level: near fine
Te Kuia Moko by Harry Sangl
$65.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books
Te Kuia Moko is a taonga recording 34 Maori women, all bearing moko kauae (chin tattoos). First published in 1980 as The Blue Privilege , this new printing evidences the book's ongoing importance as a record of moko art. Biographies of the women are printed substantially as they spoke them, supplemented ...Show more
Te Hahi Mihinare: The Maori Anglican Church by Hirini Kaa
$49.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
This ground-breaking book explores the emergence of Te Hahi Mihinare - the Maori Anglican Church. Anglicanism, brought to New Zealand by English missionaries in 1814, was made widely known by Maori evangelists, as iwi adapted the religion to make it their own. The ways in which Mihinare (Maori Anglican ...Show more
Wars Without End New Zealands Land Wars - A Maori Perspective by Danny Keenan
$40.00 NZD
Category: Māori History
From the earliest days of European settlement in New Zealand, Maori have struggled to hold on to their land. Tensions began early, arising from disputed land sales. When open conflict between Maori and Imperial forces broke out in the 1840s and 1860s, the struggles only intensified. For both sides, land ...Show more
AUETANGA O NGATI WHAKAUE KI TE KARAUNA- Roar of Ngati Whakaue Against the crown 1880 - 2020 by Hamuera W Mitchell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
NGATI WHAKAUE HE IWI PIRIPONO KI TE KARAUNA - Regal and Vice-Regal Visits to Rotorua 1840 - 2020 by Hamuera W Mitchell
$34.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
Te Manu Huna a Tane: The Hidden Bird of Tane by Edited by Jenny Gillam and Eugene Hansen
$45.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books
This special photo book documents a wananga or class for three generations of women from Ngati Torehina Ki Mataka to learn the customary practice of pelting North Island brown kiwi so their feathers can be used for weaving. This passing on of customary knowledge developed out of a partnership between co ...Show more
When Darkness Stays: Hohepa Kereopa and a Tuhoe Oral History by Paul Moon
$29.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
This extraordinary book – unsettling, harrowing, and ultimately redemptive – is based on the time the author spent with the Tūhoe tohunga, Hōhepa Kereopa. It plunges deep into a cultural landscape that has almost vanished, bringing to light insights that are enriching and sometimes shocking. The work ...Show more
Matamua ko te Kupu! Te Korero o te Waiata Maori (First is the Word! The Story of Maori Song) - Kotahi Rau by Timoti Karetu
$29.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
He kohinga whakaaro, he kohinga wheako hoki mō te waiata me te haka nā tētahi tokānuku kua aua atu e tū ana i taua ao. Ko Tā Tīmoti Kāretu tētahi o ngā tohunga reo Māori o te motu – ko ia te kaiarataki i Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, i Te Māngai Pāho, i Te Kōhanga Reo tae atu ki Te Panekiretanga o te ...Show more
Gottfried Lindauer's New Zealand: The Maori Portraits (Paperback Edition) by Ngahiraka Mason and Zara Stanhope (editors)
$59.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
An exquisite piece of art publishing that showcases Bohemian artist Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand in 75 plates and detailed contextual essays. From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the Bohemian immigrant artist Gottfried Lindauer travelled to marae and rural towns around New Zealand and – c ...Show more