A whakapapa of tradition : 100 years of Ngāti Porou carving, 1830-1930
Publisher: Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2016Description: 295 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:- 9781869407377
- 1869407377
- NK 9793 ELL
- Ockham New Zealand Book Award, Judith Binney Best First Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction Winner 2017. Ngā Kupu Ora Awards, Art Winner 2017.
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library NZ & Pacific | NZ & Pacific | NZ&P NK 9793 ELL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0016516 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Te ao hurihuri o Iwirākau -- 1. Iwirākau visual culture to 1830 -- 2. He tikanga hoū: Chapels in the Waiapu, 1838-1860 -- 3. Tradition and the meeting house -- 4. Ngā tohunga whakairo o Iwirākau -- 5. Patronage -- 6. 'Ka pū te ruha, ka hao te rangatahi': Apirana Ngata, Hone Ngatoto and the end of the Iwirākau carving school?
"From the emergence of the chapel and the wharenui in the nineteenth century to the rejuvenation of carving by Apirana Ngata in the 1920s, Māori carving went through a rapid evolution from 1830 to 1930. Focusing on thirty meeting houses, Ngarino Ellis tells the story of Ngāti carving and a profound transformation in Māori art. Beginning around 1830, three previously dominant art traditions – waka taua (war canoes), pātaka (decorated storehouses) and whare rangātira (chief’s houses) – declined and were replaced by whare karakia (churches), whare whakairo (decorated meeting houses) and wharekai (dining halls). Ellis examines how and why that fundamental transformation took place by exploring the Iwirākau School of carving, based in the Waiapu Valley on the East Coast of the North Island. An ancestor who lived around the year 1700, Iwirākau is credited for reinvigorating the art of carving in the Waiapu region. The six major carvers of his school went on to create more than thirty important meeting houses and other structures." -- Publisher information.
Ockham New Zealand Book Award, Judith Binney Best First Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction Winner 2017.
Ngā Kupu Ora Awards, Art Winner 2017.