Whakairo: Māori carving | 100% Pure New Zealand
Māori carvings in wood, bone, or stone have unique designs and special meanings. Carvings are rich in symbolism and use common patterns, though styles differ between tribes. Symbols include the tiki, which represents the human figure, and the manaia, a creature with a bird-like head and serpent-like body, associated with guardianship.
Maori Statue - Etsy
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Whakairo - Wikipedia
Toi whakairo (art carving) or just whakairo (carving) is a Māori traditional art of carving in wood, stone or bone. [1] Timber was formed into houses, fencepoles, pouwhenua, containers, taiaha, tool handles and waka (canoe). Carving tools were made from stone, preferably the very hard pounamu (greenstone).
Early Maori Wood Carvings - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Examples of ancient Maori wood sculpture are rare but a number survive, due, in part, to the practice of hiding valuable carvings by immersing them in swamps during times of unrest.
Maori carvings on a stand - from Kauri wood Aotearoa.co.nz
Beautiful freestanding Maori carvings on a stand carved from New Zealand kauri trees (est. 40,000 years old). All carvings come with paua inlayed eyes (or another paua inlay). They are mounted on a black oval base in a range of Maori figures.
Ngātoroirangi Mine Bay Māori Rock Carvings - Love Taupo
The giant Ngātoroirangi Mine Bay Māori Rock Carvings on Lake Taupō has been hailed as one of New Zealand’s most extraordinary contemporary Maori artworks. Towering 14-metres above the deep water of Lake Taupō, artist Matahi Brightwell's carvings have become one of the North Island’s biggest tourist attractions.
19th & 20th century Maori carvings and sculpture
Maori Tiki Statue with Paua Shell Inlay. A Maori Tiki statue, carved wood and paua shell, early 20th century, 20 cm high
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Uenuku - Te Awamutu Museum
Uenuku is one of the oldest Maori carvings in New Zealand, because of his unusual shape & style, which is more like an East Polynesian carving than Maori. This carving was made using only stone tools, which also makes it quite early.
Story: Whakairo – Māori carving - Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of …
In the 20th century there was a renaissance of traditional Māori carving and many new whare whakairo (carved meeting houses) were built. According to legend, carving was discovered by Ruatepupuke when rescued his son, Manuruhi, from the carved underwater village of Tangaroa, the god of the sea.