Te Māori : taonga Māori = treasures of the Māori /

Brake, Brian, 1927-1988,

Te Māori : taonga Māori = treasures of the Māori / photographs, Brian Brake ; captions, David R. Simmons ; translations, Merimeri Penfold. - Auckland [N.Z.] : Reed in association with Auckland City Art Gallery and Te Maori Manaaki Taonga Trust, 1994. - 78 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm

Catalogue of a New Zealand tour of a collection of Maori artefacts, exhibited in the United States, 1984-1986. Parallel text in Maori and English. Reprint. originally published as: Te Maori : te hokinga mai = the return home. Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland City Art Gallery, 1986.

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.

0790003481 (paperback) 9780790003481 (paperback)


Art, Māori--Exhibitions.
Wood-carving, Māori--Exhibitions.
Carving (Decorative arts)--New Zealand--Exhibitions.
Māori (New Zealand people)--Antiquities--Exhibitions.
Mahi toi


N7406.B728 1994

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