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

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

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 c onservationists and weavers that returned accidentally killed kiwi to the hapu or family of the rohe or district in which they were found. It offers a particular perspective on the contemporary hapu-led cultural practices of Maori women and their intersection of the sacred and profound in the everyday. It also brings a greater understanding of conservation efforts and, in particular, of how the Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai works closely with tangata whenua. ...Show more

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 by essays by Merimeri Penfold and D.R. Simmons. The records are accompanied by black-and-white sketches of the kuia's moko complementing the beautiful, full colour paintings. ...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 climaxes with a staggering oral history that has never appeared in print until now, and which reveals one of the most tragic and distressing events in the country's colonial era. ...Show more

NGATI WHAKAUE HISTORY SET by Hamuera Mitchell

$69.99 NZD

Category: Māori History

Evolution of Kapa Haka in Ohinemutu, Rotorua, 1880 to 2020 by DGR Pene

$69.99 NZD

Category: Māori History

Te Arawa. A History of the Arawa People by Stafford, Don

$98.00 NZD

Category: Māori History

Parihaka: The Facts

$29.99 NZD

Category: Māori History

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 a nd – commissioned by Māori and Pākehā – captured in paint the images of key Māori figures. For Māori then and now, the faces of tūpuna are full of mana and life. Now this definitive book on Lindauer’s portraits of the ancestors collects that work for New Zealanders.The book presents 67 major portraits and 8 genre paintings alongside detailed accounts of the subject and work, followed by essays by leading scholars that take us inside Lindauer and his world: from his artistic training in Bohemia to his travels around New Zealand as Māori and Pākehā commissioned him to paint portraits; his artistic techniques and deep relationship with photography; Henry Partridge’s gallery of Lindauer works on Queen Street in Auckland where Māori visited to see their ancestors; and the afterlife of the paintings in marae and memory. For Māori, the faces that look out from Lindauer’s portraits are tribal leaders and family members. They are tohunga and politicians. They are ancestors and friends. Gottfried Lindauer met Maori tūpuna at the most basic level of human connection by capturing their likeness. This book returns the ancestors and the artist to the people. ...Show more

Waitangi: A Living Treaty by Matthew Wright

$39.99 NZD

Category: Māori History

Acclaimed historian Matthew Wright explores the evolution of New Zealand's most historically significant document, the Treaty of Waitangi, from its origins to its place in the present day. From the early cultural collisions between Maori and Pakeha that led to this landmark agreement, to the many reinte rpretations that have followed, Waitangi: A Living Treaty brings the story and concepts of the Treaty to life in this revealing and thought-provoking read. ...Show more

Takitimu by J. H. Mitchell

$80.00 NZD

Category: Māori History

Takitimu is one of the great tribal histories in the New Zealand literary canon. It tells of the Ngati Kahungunu people tangata whenua of Hawkes Bay and parts of East Coast and Wairarapa from their origins in the Pacific Islands to their lineage in Aotearoa up to the twentieth century. It is divided int o four main sections: the history up to the departure of Takitimu and other canoes of migration; the history of Ngati Kahungunu; short biographies of Sir James Carroll, Sir Maui Pomare and the Rev. Tamihana Huata; and appendices describing charms, proverbs, the interpretation of dreams and signs, and the Maori almanac. Complete with genealogical tables, this is a book of great value for history enthusiasts and especially the people of Ngati Kahungunu the third largest Maori tribe, with descendants throughout New Zealand and Australia. ...Show more