Henare (Henry) Brooking is a ta moko artist and teacher at the Eastern Institute of Technologies Toihoukura Maori Visual Arts School in Gisborne, New Zealand. The tattoo artist is one of the many ...

Along with astronauts, anthropologists are the world`s great voyagers. They navigate unknown places untouched by Coke, Sony and Teflon. They come back with magnificent tales about strange worlds. More ...

Structural analysis saw myths and art forms as means through which contradictions in social life could be resolved. This article deals with arf forms which address contradiction, but adopts a ...

Arekatera “Katz” Maihi can vividly recall the sickening stench of smoke and harrowing echo of family members’ cries as his tribal house in Auckland, New Zealand, went up in flames in the middle of the ...

An oil painting by renowned New Zealand artist Charles Frederick Goldie set a new benchmark in the country's art history. The portrait, Thoughts of a Tohunga, depicting Maori elder and Ngati Manawa ...

Pressing her fingers along the rich red panels of the wooden meeting house, Arihia Matahiki tried to connect to the spiritual ancestors of her people, the Maori of New Zealand. As ceremony dictates, ...

Foreword / Honorable Mr. Manuera Benjamin Riwai Couch -- He Matakupa ki nga Iwi o te Ao / Archdeacon Kingi M. Ihaka -- Preface / A. Lindsay Fergusson -- Acknowledgments / Wilder Green -- Exhibition ...

NOT only students of Maori ethnography, but those who are interested in artistic technology, will heartily congratulate Mr. A. Hamilton on the completion of his great work on “Maori Art.” Although ...

When George Tamihana Nuku, a Maori chief with a full facial moko (as the elaborate skin art is known), was touring America two years ago, not everyone was shocked by his appearance. "Some people are ...