Maori Tribes of New Zealand by Te Ara
$34.99 NZD
Category: Maori
A guide to the main Maori tribes written especially for visitors and students, combining great photos of scenic New Zealand with maps, Maori art and history. Written by New Zealand's top Maori historians, this is a perfect compact guidebook to the tribes of New Zealand.
Maori in Aotearoa New Zealand: Understanding the Culture, Protocols and Customs by Buddy Mikaere
$32.99 NZD
Category: Maori
Starting with the beaching of his Mataatua Bay of Plenty ancestral canoe, Buddy Mikaere provides a highly readable historical overview of Maori in New Zealand and goes on to examine the impact of a changing urban world on the traditional way of life. He describes the renaissance of Maori culture and the ...Show more
Marae - Te Tatau Pounamu: A Journey Around New Zealand's Meeting Houses by Muru Walters; Sam Walters; Robin Walters
$65.00 NZD
Category: Maori
A magnificent, prize-winning 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 Curi ...Show more
Nga Kare A-Roto: Feelings (Kuwi & Friends) by Kat Quin; Pania Papa
$17.99 NZD
Category: Maori
Learn the Māori words for 40 different feelings and states. A beautifully presented te reo Māori and English bilingual board book. Drawn from the multi-award-winning Kuwi & Friends Māori Picture Dictionary, and collated into bite sized pukapuka. A stunning matte laminated robust book with rounded co ...Show more
Nga tae i roto i te kete [Ngā tae i roto i te kete]: Colours in the Kete by Katie Kool; Cindy Tan
$21.99 NZD
Category: Maori
Delightful bi-lingual picture book where you open a kete on each page to reveal different colours.
Ngarara i roto i te kete [Ngārara i roto i te kete]: Bugs in the Kete by Katie Kool; Cindy Tan
$21.99 NZD
Category: Maori
Delightful bi-lingual counting book where you open a kete on each page to reveal a number of NZ bugs.
Ngatokimatawhaorua - The Biography of a Waka by Jeff Evans
$50.00 NZD
Category: Maori
Ngatokimatawhaorua, the longest waka taua to be built in modern times, is a national taonga and resides at the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi. The inspiration for its construction came from Te Puea Harangi's dream to build seven waka for the 1940 centennial commemorations of the signing of the Treaty of Wai ...Show more
Pacific Parables: Mana in Maori Tradition by John Patterson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Maori
Do myths and legends have anything to teach us about understanding Maori values and society? Are they still relevant today? John Patterson encourages a more sensitive and sympathetic attitude among Pakeha people by showing how traditional Maori narratives -- what we still tend to call their myths and le ...Show more
Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand by Jeff Evans
$39.99 NZD
Category: Maori
The Polynesian navigator Kupe is credited with the discovery of the land his expedition named Aotearoa, land of the long white cloud. How did he and the many canoes that followed find their way without modern navigational techniques through perilous seas in wooden canoes? By examining myth, star charts ...Show more
Pukaki by Wright Matthew
$39.99 NZD
Category: Maori
First published in English in 2000, Paul Tapsells awardwinning work brilliantly captured the life and transformations of Pūkaki the Ngāti Whakaue ancestor depicted on the New Zealand 20-cent coin. Now a superb translation by Scotty Morrison (also of Ngāti Whakaue descent) makes this illustrated work ava ...Show more
Purakau: Maori Myths Retold by Maori Writers by Edited by Whiti Hereaka and Witi Ihimaera
$38.00 NZD
Category: Maori
A lively, stimulating and engaging retelling of pūrākau - Māori myths and legends - by contemporary Māori writers. Ka mua, ka muri . . .Ancient Māori creation myths, portrayals of larger-than-life heroes and tales of engrossing magical beings have endured through the ages. Some hail back to Hawaiki, som ...Show more