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• Title:Rauru : Tene Waitere, Maori carving, colonial history / editor Nicholas Thomas ; photographs Mark Adams ; interviews Lyonel Grant and James Schuster.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Waitere, Tene.
  Thomas, Nicholas.
  Adams, Mark, 1949-
  
• Published/Created:Dunedin, N.Z. : University of Otago Press, 2009.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: TT199.7 .R38 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Waitere, Tene.
  Adams, Mark, 1949-
  Wood-carving, Maori--Pictorial works.
  Wood-carvers--New Zealand.
  Photographers--New Zealand.
  Decorative arts, Maori--Pictorial works.
  
• Description:183 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
  
• Summary:"As part of the Auckland Festival of Photography, Two Rooms presents new large scale colour photographs by Mark Adams. The exhibition celebrates the work of carver Tene Waitere and additionally launches the accompanying book, Rauru, published by Otago University Press. The book is a collaboration between Mark Adams and anthropologist Professor Nicholas Thomas from Cambridge University. Tene Waitere (1854-1931) was one of the greatest Māori carvers of the colonial period. Waitere was the first Ngati Tarawhai artist to produce a major corpus of material for European clients ... The book takes its title from Rauru, the meeting house named after the creator of the art of carving in Te Arawa and some other tribal traditions, which arguably incorporates Tene's greatest work. Carved with Anaha te Rahui and Neke Kapua for the Rotorua hotel manager C.E. Nelson over 1897-1900, the whare whakairo is renowned for its figurative representation of major elements of Māori myth, but is innovative and adventurous in many ways, full of mana, and consistently assured in the flawless and dynamic character of its carving. Nelson sold the house to the Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg, in 1904, and it has remained in that museum - renowned for great Oceanic collections, mainly associated with German expeditions and colonies in the Pacific ever since."--Two Rooms Gallery.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-180).
  
• ISBN:9781877372612
  
• Contents:Introduction / Nicholas Thomas
  'Tene's Work Is Special to Us' / James Schuster
  'A Whakapapa of Carving' / Lyonel Grant
  Photographs / Mark Adams
  Te Arawa
  Clandon Park
  Taupo-Nui-A-Tia
  Hamburg
  Wellington
  London
  Tewairoa
  Portsmouth
  Whakarewarewa
  Tene Waitere's Travels - A Supplement / Nicholas Thomas.