Marae: A Journey Around New Zealand's Meeting Houses by Rev Muru & Robin Walters

$80.00 NZD

Category: Maori

A magnificent documentation of and tribute to New Zealand's wharenui, big and small. Bishop Muru Walters is a very well known Anglican minister. He is also a master carver, poet, broadcaster and former Maori All Black. His son Robin is a photographer and filmmaker who is director at Curious Films. Sam W alters, Robin's wife, is a photographer. Together the Walters spent three years visiting some of this country's major meeting houses as well as many of the more humble ones - houses that serve smaller hapu and iwi - to bring together a beautiful photographic book on the meeting house. They are intensively photographed, with detailed shots of their carvings, kowhaiwhai panels, tukutuku panels and much more. Many are photographed during an event, the images conveying a rich sense of life and activity. From north to south, from the east coast to the west, and from ancient wharenui to bold new designs, this handsome book, with its engaging personal text, captures the huge variety of New Zealand's original architecture. It's a book for all New Zealanders to treasure. ...Show more

Nga Kai Hauora/Healthy Foods (Maori First Word Books) by Amanda Jackson

$9.99 NZD

Category: Maori | Series: Maori first word books/Nga Pukapuka Kupu Tuatahi

This series of photographic, bilingual first word vocabulary books is designed for early childhood and junior level at primary school. The series allows young children to participate in both official languages of New Zealand through access to visually exciting and superbly produced resources, as well as encouraging them to learn more about Maori language and culture. An enunciation page in each bilingual edition gives guidelines to educators and parents and specially designed kowhaiwhai patterns border each photograph. Featured words: ?puha ?aporo / apple ?wata kirihi / watercress ?parakipere / blackberry ?kapeti / cabbage ?merengi / watermelon ?kumara ?kerepi / grape ...Show more

Aitanga a Punga /Insect World (Maori First Word Books) by Amanda Jackson

$9.99 NZD

$14.99 (33% off)

Category: Maori | Series: Maori first word books

This series of photographic, bilingual first word vocabulary books is designed for early childhood and junior level at primary school. The series allows young children to participate in both official languages of New Zealand through access to visually exciting and superbly produced resources, as well as encouraging them to learn more about Maori language and culture. An enunciation page in each bilingual edition gives guidelines to educators and parents and specially designed kowhaiwhai patterns border each photograph. Featured Insects: ?kowhitwhiti / grasshopper ?whe, ro / praying mantis ?kihikihi / cicada ?weta ?tuwhaipapa / giraffe weevil ?wakapihau / centipede ?tataka / huhu beetle ?ro, whe / stick insect ...Show more

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 richly illustrated book, Maori scholars and writers share the traditional knowledge passed down the generations by word of mouth. It provides a unique window on the relationship of the people of this land with their environment, as well as the profound knowledge and necessary skills they needed to survive here. ...Show more

Maori Peoples of New Zealand by Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

$49.99 NZD

Category: Maori | Reading Level: very good

The first publication tocome 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 to gether in one place all these tribal histories. Based on the latest research and generously illustrated in colour with superb mapping and photographs, this rich resource is an essential part of our nation's story and fills an important gap in the history of New Zealand. ...Show more

Kei te Pehea Koe? How Do You Feel? by Tracy Duncan

$19.99 NZD

Category: Maori

A delightful, easy introduction to saying how you feel using te reo. Young and old alike will be able to describe whether they are feeling hoha (bored), makariri (cold), matekai (hungry) or simply tinopai rawe (fantastic)! A pronunciation guide in the back of the book gives new learners to te reo a simp le guide to the language. ...Show more

Tahoe: He Pakiwaitara mo Hinemoa raua ko Tutanekai by Chris Szekely

$24.00 NZD

Category: Maori

In the legend, Hinemoa lives by Lake Rotorua and Tutanekai on the island, Mokoia. Hinemoa falls in love when Tutanekai plays the flute, but Hinemoa's father considers him unsuitable. They vow to be together, and every night on the island,Tutanekai plays his flute to guide Hinemoa to him. With no canoe, Hinemoa must swim the lake with mystical creatures in it to be with Tutanekai. The book is available in Maori and English language versions. translated by Scotty Morrison ...Show more

Mihaia: The Prophet Rua Kenana and his Community at Maungapohatu by Judith Binney, Gillian Chaplin and Craig Wallace

$49.99 NZD

Category: Maori

Rua Kenana was an extraordinary prophetic leader from the Urewera. Resisting threats to expel the Tühoe people from their ancestral lands, he established a remarkable communityat Maungapohatu, identifying himself as the ‘Míhaia’ or ‘Messiah’ for Túhoe. Judith Binney, Gillian Chaplin and Craig Wallace r esearched the history of the communityin the 1970s, working frst with a collection of photographs that they took to the Urewera. Sharing these photographs with descendants of Rua and his followers, they found that 'strangers opened their hearts to us, and shared their stories'. This biographical account focuses on a dramatic moment in Urewera history, one that incorporated a shocking episode in early twentieth-century New Zealand. The rich photographic record documents not only the police assault on the Maungapohatu community but also the lives of the people and Rua’s utopian vision. The prophet lived into the 1930s, a leader still working to support and sustain his followers.Described on publication as 'an unparalleled record of a community through time', this remarkable history has been in demand since first publication by Oxford University Press in 1979. ...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 al background is explained; and a selection of waiata (songs), karakia (prayers) and mihi (greetings) are provided for the visitor who wishes to make correct responses. There is also a moving personal account of the marae that have played an important role in Hiwi Tauroa's life. ...Show more

Whispers of Waitaha : Traditions of a Nation by Peter & Makere Ruka Te Korako

$89.99 NZD

$115.00 (21% off)

Category: Maori

Whispers of Waitaha: traditions of a nation tells simply of the oral transfer of information from grandparent to grandchild. This transfer, allowing for the "moko", design and the "puna", pool, to hold onto not only the physical attributes of transfer, but for the grandchild to become aware of the great pools of memory that reside universally. Our wisdom keepers have long realised and teach continually that we will never lose our story, therefore we will never lose our dream of the future. ...Show more

Waiata: Maori Songs in History by Margaret Orbell

$31.00 NZD

Category: Maori | Reading Level: Very Good

In waiata our forebears spoke their hearts - in grief and celebration. For many hundreds of years this great oral tradition of song flourished in Aotearoa. During the second half of the nineteenth century, in time of rapid change, Maori scholars recorded for the future the words of thousands of waiata. Their manuscripts were preserved by Pakeha of foresight and commitment, and along with a vast body of other Maori writing they are now accessible in Libraries throughout New Zealand. Margaret Orbell has been working with these manuscripts for 25 years. She has come to occupy a special place in Maori scholarship, having brought to light and translated many ancient texts. In this new anthology she places waiata of the nineteenth century in their social and political setting, conveying the poets' responses to their people's trauma. There is a fascinating richness of detail here about traditional Maori life, with insights into the lives of ordinary people as well as into tribal relations and the interaction of Maori and Pakeha. Margaret also reveals the great skills of the composers - their use of imagery, rhythm and symbolism, and the profound knowledge they convey. Her authoritative and illuminating commentaries will make this collection hugely interesting to a wide range of readers. ...Show more

The Raupo Essential Maori Dictionary by Ross Calman; Margaret Sinclair

$24.99 NZD

Category: Maori

The Raupo Essential Maori Dictionaryis an invaluable introductory dictionary for students of te reo Maori. It features- clear, easy-to-follow Maori-English and English-Maori sections, with the Maori and English alphabets at the top of each page, all the words a learner is likely to encounter, including contemporary usage and modern terms, a section of themed word lists, including days of the week, months of the year, numbers, cities of New Zealand, colours, emotions, actions, parts of the body, in the classroom, and on the marae. ...Show more