Maori Weaving: The Art of Creating Maori Textiles by Brian James Bargh, Cherie Taylor and Vanessa Bidois
19.99 NZD
Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro
Since the ancestors arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand and discovered the useful properties of harakeke (New Zealand flax), Māori have used flax leaves to create baskets, mats, housing materials, clothing, ropes and fishing nets. In weaving and the patterns used, Māori record histories and stories, passin ...Show more
Weaving a large container from New Zealand flax by Ali Brown
38.99 NZD
Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro
Te Rangatahi Elementary 2 - Blue by Hoani R. Waititi
22.99 NZD
Category: Learn Te Reo Māori / Te Reo Māori Language Resources
Te Rongoa Maori: Maori Medicine by P. M. E. Williams
34.99 NZD
Category: Rongoa / Plant Medicine | Reading Level: very good
Pip Williams, a retired pharmacist living in Northland, has spent his life observing and recording the use by local Maori of native plants for medicinal purposes. Te Rongoa Maoribrings together his observations on 43 New Zealand plants and the health problems they were used to treat, colourfully intersp ...Show more
Early Maritime Tauranga by Trevor Bentley
39.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
Some of the most interesting and important events in Tauranga's history took place before it's occupation by British and colonial forces, and the battles of Gate Pa and Te Ranga in 1864. In this book, historian Trevor Bentley brings Tauranga's colourful and dramatic pre-colonial maritime history to lig ...Show more
Hine Toa: A Story of Bravery by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
An incredible memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Maori liberation movements. In the 1950s, a young Ngahuia is fostered by a family who believe in hard work and community. Although close to her kuia, she craves more: she wants higher education and refined living. But whanau dismiss her ...Show more
Te Reo Kapekape: Māori Wit and Humour by Hona Black
44.99 NZD
Category: Learn Te Reo Māori / Te Reo Māori Language Resources
Following on from the successful He Iti te Kupu: Māori Metaphors and Similes, Hona Black’s new book explores the rich vein of humour in Māori life. Want to know how to call a silly person a ‘roro hipi / sheep’s brain’, or tell someone to get stuffed in te reo Māori? The answers are all in Te Reo Kapeka ...Show more
Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories by Edited by Paula Morris and Darryn Joseph
44.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books
Hiwa is a vibrant, essential collection of contemporary Maori short stories, featuring twenty-seven writers working in English or te reo Maori. The writers range from famous names and award winners - Patricia Grace, Witi Ihimaera, Whiti Hereaka, Becky Manawatu, Zeb Nicklin - to emerging voices like Shel ...Show more
Mana Wahine Reader: A collection of writings 1999-2019 (Volume 2) by Pihama, Tuhiwai-Smith, Simmonds, Seed-Pihama & Gabel
34.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books
In 2019 Te Kotahi Research Institute collated and compiled a selection of papers, written between 1999 and 2019 by wāhine Māori across a range of disciplines, about their experience as wāhine Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand. Published in two volumes, Mana Wahine Reader 1 (1987-1998) and Mana Wahin ...Show more
Tikanga - An introduction to te Ao Maori by Keri Opai
39.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: near fine
An introduction to te ao Māori. The guide to understanding the Māori world from a 21st century point of view. The book we’ve all been needing for decades – a unique explanation of the world of Māoridom for Pakehā, and all others disconnected from the Māori world. Told with simple lucidity and great expe ...Show more
Fun and Functional Flax Weaving by Ali Brown
86.99 NZD
Category: Toi Māori / Art - Whakairo, Raranga, Taonga Puoro
The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions Volume 5 by John White
85.00 NZD
Category: Pūrākau / Māori Legends & Mythology | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Anthropology Ser.
First published between 1887 and 1890, this six-volume work, containing Maori texts with English translations and commentary, and engraved illustrations, was one of the first printed records of the oral traditions of the Maori. The project was commissioned by the New Zealand government in 1879 when it w ...Show more