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A whakapapa of tradition : 100 years of of Ngāti Porou carving, 1830-1930 / Ngarino Ellis ; with new photography by Natalie Robertson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2016Description: 295 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), photographs, map ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781869407377
  • 1869407377
Other title:
  • One hundred years of of Ngāti Porou carving, eighteen thirty - nineteen thirty
  • 100 years of of Ngāti Porou carving, 1830-1930
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 736.408999442 23
Contents:
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? -- Select List of Iwirākau Meeting Houses -- Occasional Carvers of the Iwirākau School -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
Summary: "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...This book is both a major study of Ngāti Porou carving and an attempt to make sense of Māori art history. What makes a tradition in Māori art? Ellis asks. How do traditions begin? Who decides this? Conversely, how and why do traditions cease? And what forces are at play which make some buildings acceptable and others not?"--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-286) 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? -- Select List of Iwirākau Meeting Houses -- Occasional Carvers of the Iwirākau School -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

"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...This book is both a major study of Ngāti Porou carving and an attempt to make sense of Māori art history. What makes a tradition in Māori art? Ellis asks. How do traditions begin? Who decides this? Conversely, how and why do traditions cease? And what forces are at play which make some buildings acceptable and others not?"--Publisher's website.

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