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Te Maori: Te Hokinga Mai = The Return Home
Texts in English and Maori.
Te Maori came out of exhibition of the same name which took New York by storm during the late 1980s. The historic artefacts in this book demonstrate the power and the beauty of Maori art and include canoe prows, doorways, clubs, tiki, pendants, masks, amulets and boxes. This book contains 37 taonga Maori of importance, beauty and mana.
This book was reprinted in 1998.
Te Maori came out of exhibition of the same name which took New York by storm during the late 1980s. The historic artefacts in this book demonstrate the power and the beauty of Maori art and include canoe prows, doorways, clubs, tiki, pendants, masks, amulets and boxes. This book contains 37 taonga Maori of importance, beauty and mana.
This book was reprinted in 1998.
78 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1986
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April 27, 2020
I really liked this. Its interesting to compare it to the 'Maori Tribes of New Zeland' book I bought at the same time and just finished.
That book is very factual, informative, in a slightly decontextualised feeling way. It tip toes its way carefully through what is clearly still a rather tense history and present. It is a friendly book, clearly the product of many layers of revision and consensus. It is fair. It is also somewhat dull. Reading that book would give you the sense that the Maori are a rather friendly people with a complicated but tiresome history who have had a tough time and who are now doing better. There is nothing exceptionally interesting about the Maori as seen through that book.
*This* book is purely really moody shots of Maori art, mainly woodcarving and some Ponamu pieces, with context given through short contextual descriptions on the opposing pages. The art is really fucking good, the photography is goth as fuck, the book may be somewhat orientalist, fetishising a culture through its most charismatic pieces of art and draping the whole thing in the silky robes of mystery and time. But I am glad that it does because the impression of the Maori you get through it is that they are edgy cool as fuck balls out artistic geniuses doing mysterious stuff with wood and and caving each others heads in for magic green rocks, which I think I prefer to the first book.
That book is very factual, informative, in a slightly decontextualised feeling way. It tip toes its way carefully through what is clearly still a rather tense history and present. It is a friendly book, clearly the product of many layers of revision and consensus. It is fair. It is also somewhat dull. Reading that book would give you the sense that the Maori are a rather friendly people with a complicated but tiresome history who have had a tough time and who are now doing better. There is nothing exceptionally interesting about the Maori as seen through that book.
*This* book is purely really moody shots of Maori art, mainly woodcarving and some Ponamu pieces, with context given through short contextual descriptions on the opposing pages. The art is really fucking good, the photography is goth as fuck, the book may be somewhat orientalist, fetishising a culture through its most charismatic pieces of art and draping the whole thing in the silky robes of mystery and time. But I am glad that it does because the impression of the Maori you get through it is that they are edgy cool as fuck balls out artistic geniuses doing mysterious stuff with wood and and caving each others heads in for magic green rocks, which I think I prefer to the first book.
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