Taonga Tuku Iho: Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Maori Life - Revised edition by A. W. Reed (Author) , Buddy Mikaere (Revised by)
49.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books
his revised edition of the classic A.W. Reed title remains true to the original vision - to create a highly readable and accessible introduction to the traditional life and customs of Maori. The text is arranged alphabetically and includes: . Entries covering agriculture, fishing, gardening, hunting, ga ...Show more
Greenstone Carving: Techniques and Concepts in Pounamu by Len Gale
39.99 NZD
Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro
This concise guide to the art of greenstone carving, out of print for the past 20 years, returns in a smartly designed, fully illustrated new edition. Greenstone Carving takes readers from the origins of pounamu/greenstone through the basics of the artform - design, tools and techniques, different stone ...Show more
Illustrated Māori Dictionary: Maori-English Essentials by A.W. Reed
34.99 NZD
Category: Learn Te Reo Māori / Te Reo Māori Language Resources
In compiling this dictionary A.W. Reed set out to entertain as well as educate. Its succinct entries encompass modern and traditional Māori language and customs, as do the fine illustrations by Roger Hart. These Māori to English definitions delve into a variety of associated meanings and derivations — ...Show more
Te Koroua Me Te Moana - The Old Man and the Sea in te reo Maori - Kotahi Rau Pukapuka #7 by Ernest Hemingway; Greg Koia (Translator)
29.99 NZD
Category: Pakimaero / Fiction
Hemingway's classic story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish - now translated into te reo Maori. Kei nga hihi pukaka o te ra, kei tetahi kainga pakupaku i te takutai o Hawana tetahi koroua hi ika e noho ana, ko Hanatiako tona ingoa. Kua waru tekau ma wha ra te roa kaore i mau i a ia he ika. E ...Show more
Niho Taniwha: Improving Teaching and Learning for Ākonga Māori by Melanie Riwai-Couch
69.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books
Niho Taniwha equips educators with culturally responsive practices to better serve and empower Māori students and their whānau. The book is centred around the Niho Taniwha model in which both the learner and the teacher move through three phases in the teaching and learning process: Whai, Ako and Mau. E ...Show more
Me Anga Whakamua Facing the Future by Janet Hetaraka and Diane Stoppard
49.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books
Explores the impact of the first encounters between Maori and Europeans through three essays by Tohunga Whakairo - Te Warihi Hetaraka, Professor Alison Jones and a voice of the next generation - Justice Hetaraka. " The question of where does Aotearoa sit with the past and how do we move forward is explo ...Show more
Tunui | Comet by Robert Sullivan
19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
my old friend I wonder how far north you travel?The road goes west starting two doors up from The Dog’s Bollix ending at sunset. So many sunsetsFacebook and Instagram couldn’t contain them. Tūnui | Comet is the first collection in more than a decade by one of our most important living Māori poets. Roll ...Show more
Puripāha: Te Pane Kaewa - Bulibasha in Te Reo Māori - Kotahi Rau Pukapuka #6 by Witi Ihimaera; Ruth Smith (Translator)
39.99 NZD
Category: Kotahi Rau Pukapuka
He whakamāoritanga i te pukapuka o Puripāha nā Witi Ihimaera mō ētahi whānau hoariri e rua ki Te Tairāwhiti. Ko Puripāha te tapanga ka tukuna ki Te Pane Kaewa, ā, ki Te Tairāwhiti o Aotearoa e pakanga ana ētahi kokoro tokorua kia whakawahia hai pane. Ko Tamihana te upoko o te whānau toa o Mahana, he whā ...Show more
Tangata Ngai Tahu / People of Ngai Tahu: Volume Two by Helen Brown & Michael Stevens
49.99 NZD
Category: Iwi, Hapū and Whānau Histories | Reading Level: near fine
Tāngata Ngāi Tahu, Volume Two remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngāi Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngāi Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their iwi, hapū and whānau in myriad ways: here ...Show more
Hei Taonga Ma Nga Uri Whakatipu: Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919-1923 by Wayne Ngata & Anne Salmond
74.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
From 1919 to 1923, at Sir Apirana Ngata's initiative, a team from the Dominion Museum travelled to tribal areas across Te Ika-a-Māui/the North Island to record tikanga Māori (ancestral practices) that Ngata feared might be disappearing. These ethnographic expeditions, the first in the world to be inspi ...Show more
He Atua, He Tangata: The World of Maori Mythology by A.W. Reed
64.99 NZD
Category: Pūrākau / Māori Legends & Mythology
In this updated edition of the Reed Book of Māori Mythology, esteemed editor Ross Calman comprehensively revises the core stories of gods (atua) and people (tangata) and the many other beings that sit on the continuum between the two. Divided into themes, this elegantly produced volume starts with tradi ...Show more
Polynesia 900-1600 by Madi Williams
24.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books
This book provides a concise introduction to the history of South Polynesia during the period typically defined as the ‘Middle Ages’ by western historians, focusing on Aotearoa New Zealand, Rēkohu (Chatham Islands), and Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Written in response to a wider global approach to medieval ...Show more