Carver working at Te Wānanga Whakairo of the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute in 1982Māori Battalion Pouwhenua carved by Eruera Te Whiti Nia (1996)
Toi whakairo (art carving) or just whakairo (carving) is a Māori traditional art of carving in wood, stone or bone.[1]
^Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Ruatepupuke and the origin of carving". teara.govt.nz.
Toi whakairo (art carving) or just whakairo (carving) is a Māori traditional art of carving in wood, stone or bone. Timber was formed into houses, fencepoles...
house or building). Also called a whare rūnanga ("meeting house") or whare whakairo (literally "carved house"), the present style of wharenui originated in...
and this was a custom among Fijian women. It was alluded to as a tara whakairo." Belgian missionary Gustaaf Hulstaert wrote about genital tattooing in...
Taupo Bays statistical area. The official opening of Tāpeka, the whare whakairo, was held on 18 April 1959. The opening was presided over by Ngāti Tūwharetoa...
traditional form, which did not have a consistent name, was listed as powaka whakairo (lit. "carved box") by collector Joel Samuel Polack in the 1830s. These...
statues; Hawaiian feather cloaks and Mahiole feather helmets; Maori carved whakairo door panels, bowls, and human figures; Javanese wayang shadow puppets;...
75% copper, 25% nickel The coat of arms of New Zealand, ornamented with whakairo, traditional Māori woodcarving Crown 5s 1.525 inches (38.74 mm) 28.28 g...
Te Papa. The key cultural space is the Rongomaraeroa marae with unusual whakairo in its wharenui, Te Hono ki Hawaiki. All permanent exhibitions are free...
of Whakaīro (carving) are mostly held within the Māori men carving community. Tukutuku for a wharenui are designed alongside the Tohunga whakairo (the...
Act 1963 was passed and the institute built to maintain the tradition of whakairo. The Institute is responsible for the building and restoration of over...
Wirihana Hetet ONZM (born 18 April 1937) is a Māori master carver (tohunga whakairo) of Ngāti Tuwharetoa and Ngāti Maniapoto descent. Hetet was born in 1937...
programme, Te Karere. In 1991, she formed the female Māori band Tuahine Whakairo but left in 1993, to start a solo career. Born in Whakatane, Black is of...
said to have hid in while escaping from her. She is also the subject of whakairo (traditional carving) and other artworks, and the Kurangaituku Netball...
(born 1949) is a New Zealand Māori tohunga whakairo (master carver), author and long serving kaiako whakairo (carving lecturer) of the New Zealand Māori...
/ Māori Made mark for Creative New Zealand. The same year, He Tohunga Whakairo, a documentary about Harrison, directed by Moana Maniapoto and Toby Mills...
to have established the tradition of whare whakairo (carved meeting houses) on the East Coast. Whare whakairo are often named after ancestors and considered...
Kōwhai Flowers slipped and leaved two Tīeke Birds Proper Motto He Toi Whakairo He Mana Tangata ("Where there is artistic excellence there is human dignity")...
Alma mater Victoria University of Wellington Scientific career Thesis Te Toi Whakairo O Ngāti Kahungunu: The Carving Traditions of Ngāti Kahungunu (2003)...
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