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A cavalcade of crime-stoppers is hot on the trail of murderers and miscreants in this quartet of entertaining mystery novels.
Māori culture gives New Zealand a powerful point of difference, say organisers. What’s at stake? Millions in tourism and ...
Long before European colonizers sighted the continent, legendary explorer Hui Te Rangiora may have seen Antarctica.
The Māori All Blacks are taking to the field this year, not only to win, but to honour the legacy of their tūpuna.
MAORI ROCK CARVINGS.—An interesting discovery which will probably prove of some importance in Polynesian ethnology is announced by the Wellington (New Zealand) correspondent of the Times in the ...
Today, James Fox finds Maori culture in the midst of a full-scale Renaissance, embraced not only by the Maori themselves but all New Zealanders. Pictured: Dr James Fox with ancient Maori carvings ...
Press Release – University of Auckland Long lost treasured whakairo rākau located in museums across the globe. Professor Brown visits one of the eight missing whakairo – a kūwaha pātaka doorway on ...
Missing Māori wood carvings found after 200 years Long lost treasured whakairo rākau located in museums across the globe. After being declared forever lost, eight treasured Māori whakairo rākau ...
IN NATURE of November 21 last, p. 763, reference is made to an interesting discovery of Maori rock-carvings announced by the Wellington (N.Z.) correspondent of the Times in its issue of November ...
He said because of his uncle’s influence on him, he carved a “Wheku,” which basically represents a human face, formed like a mask, depicting a Maori ancestor.