Te Taiao Maori and The Natural World by Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
$49.99 NZD
Category: Maori | Reading Level: very good
In traditional Maori knowledge, the weather, birds, fish and trees, sun and moon are related to each other, and to the people of the land, the tangata whenua. It is truly an interconnected world - a vast family of which humans are children of the earth and sky, and cousins to all living things. In this ...Show more
Maori Peoples of New Zealand by Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
$49.99 NZD
Category: Maori | Reading Level: very good
The first publication to come out of the online Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand project tells the story of the Tangata Whenua of Aotearoa, from their journeys across the vast Pacific Ocean to the histories of all the major iwi, including the contemporary issues they face today. No other book brings t ...Show more
Fun with Flax: 50 Projects for Beginners by Mick Pendergrast
$35.00 NZD
Category: Maori | Reading Level: near fine
These 50 interesting and entertaining projects are designed to teach beginners the basic skills of the Maori craft of plaiting. Fun with Flax shows how to make items ranging from a simple windmill, a dart and a whistle to more complex puzzles, balls, birds, fish and even a caterpillar. Each project is d ...Show more
Introducing Maori Culture by Don Stafford
$19.99 NZD
Category: Maori | Reading Level: very good
This book answers questions such as: When was Aotearoa discovered? How was Maori society organised in pre-European times? What is traditional Maori art? How does the Treaty of Waitangi affect us today? These are some of the questions commonly asked by New Zealanders and visitors about the Maori people a ...Show more
Te Anuhe Tino Hiakai (The Very Hungry Caterpillar - te reo Maori edition) by Eric Carle; Brian Morris (Translator)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Maori
The te reo Maori translation of Eric Carle's classic and much loved picture book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has the same beautiful illustrations and dye cut pages as the original book and retains the humour and quirky character of the little caterpillar and simplicity of the story. This classic editi ...Show more
Te Marae: A Guide to Customs and Protocol by Pat Tauroa; Hiwi Tauroa
$25.00 NZD
Category: Maori
A guide - complete with glossary - to customs, protocol and etiquette for visitors to New Zealand marae.Hiwi and Pat Tauroa outline the sequence of events that begins when visitors arrive at the gates of a marae and ends with their departure. Appropriate behaviour is described at each stage; the spiritu ...Show more
Traditional Maori Legends: Ngā Tai Kōrero by Warren Pohatu
$19.99 NZD
Category: Maori
Tai Korero means 'the currents of speech', a reference to the Maori tradition of oral storytelling. This colourful book retells in simple form Maori stories and myths that have been passed down over centuries. Among the fourteen stories from around New Zealand are old favourites like 'Maui and the Fish ...Show more
Te Rongoa Maori: Maori Medicine by P. M. E. Williams
$35.00 NZD
Category: Maori | 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
Te Mahi Kete: Maori Flaxcraft for Beginners by Mick Pendergrast
$35.00 NZD
Category: Maori
Anyone can learn to make a plaited kete, one of the oldest and most popular of Māori art forms, from the leaves of New Zealand flax (phormium tenax). Te Mahi Kete gives detailed, step-by-step instructions, illustrated with numerous line drawings and black-and-white photographs, for preparing the flax an ...Show more
Bone Carving: A Skillbase of Techniques and Concepts by Stephen Myhre
$35.00 NZD
Category: Maori
Bone carving is as old as civilisation itself. Even some of the oldest bone artifacts have decorative features that are clearly not necessary for their functional nature, showing that there have been complex cultural aspects to the carving of bone since earliest times. The first settlers of Aotearoa bro ...Show more