Maori carving at Hamilton Gardens. View on black
The late 19th and early 20th century photographs show some of the last Maori women to wear the traditional ta moko face marking in New Zealand before it was outlawed by British colonialists.
Author Julian Evans revisits the South Pacific for an island-hopping adventure by boat
New Zealand was one of the last landmasses to be colonized by humans. When Pleistocene megafauna had gone extinct elsewhere in the world, New Zealand was still inhabited by the moas, giant flightless birds that were hunted by early Maori settlers.
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Maori symbols are highly meaningful and were used to record their history, beliefs, legends, and spiritual values.
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In 1815, the first British missionaries arrived in Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud). Dubbed Nieuw Zeeland by adventurer Abel Tasman Nieuw Zeeland, after the Dutch province of Zeeland, the country would be changed in 1840 when the British and many Maori tribes signed the Treaty of Waitangi.
When New Zealand was colonized in the 1800s, the ancient Māori practice of moko kauae—or sacred female facial tattooing—began to fade away. Now the art form is having a resurgence. Here's what it means to stamp your identity on your face.
Discover the Winners of the Character Design Challenge! The finest designs of the month submitted by the members of our community on Facebook. “Maori Warrior'' was the theme for..
Carvings from the Te Puia carving and weaving school in Rotorua, New Zealand
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki has announced the largest exhibition in its 132-year history.
The Maori people are found in New Zealand, but are of Polynesian decent. Compared to the U.S. they have a very distinct and much different picture of beauty. Specifically Moko, which …
Gottfried Lindauer's portraits present a collective history of colonial New Zealand, capturing individual identities in a time of great social change and upheaval.
Striking images, taken by New Zealand's first ever photographer, Elizabeth Pulman, depict the way of life of the Maori, including their unique method of tattooing the face called ta moko, shown.
Maori women, New Zealand, c. 1900.
The late 19th and early 20th century photographs show some of the last Maori women to wear the traditional ta moko face marking in New Zealand before it was outlawed by British colonialists.
The Tamaki Maori Village boasts being “New Zealand’s Most Awarded Tourism Attraction” and it’s easy to see why.
Moko is the name for a Māori permanent body marking. It was originally carved with bones creating a scarring on the skin rather than a tattoo made with a needle and ink. Each moko is unique to the wearer. It depicts the story of the wearer’s family, their ancestral tribe, and their position within that group. The moko is created by the Tohunga tā moko. Māori men have moko on their faces, backs, buttocks, and thighs. Women mostly have a moko kauae on their lips, chins, and necks, and occasionally on their foreheads. In Māori culture: A moko on the face is the ultimate statement of one’s identity as a Māori. The head is believed to be the most sacred part of the body. To wear the moko on the face is to bear an undeniable declaration of who you are. After the Brits colonized New Zealand, ta moko declined as a cultural form. This was partly due to the Tohunga Suppression Act of 1907, which outlawed Māori medical practices. As these were closely linked to Māori spiritual and cultural traditions, the Māoris lost much of their culture and became what...
Maori symbols are highly meaningful and were used to record their history, beliefs, legends, and spiritual values.
