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Crafting Aotearoa : a cultural history of making in New Zealand and the wider Moana Oceania / written and edited by Karl Chitham, Kolokesa U. Māhina-Tuai, Damian Skinner ; research by Rigel Sorzano.

Penn Museum Library NK1092.A1 C458 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Chitham, Karl, author, editor.
Māhina-Tuai, Kolokesa Uafā, author, editor.
Skinner, Damian, author, editor.
Contributor:
Sorzano, Rigel, researcher.
Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Decorative arts--New Zealand--History.
Decorative arts.
Decorative arts--Oceania--History.
Handicraft--New Zealand--History.
Handicraft.
Handicraft--Oceania--History.
History.
New Zealand.
Oceania.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
463 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Place of Publication:
Wellington, New Zealand : Te Papa Press, 2019.
Summary:
"A major new history of craft that spans three centuries of making and thinking in Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider Moana (Pacific). Paying attention to Pākehā, Māori, and island nations of the wider Moana, and old and new migrant makers and their works, this book is a history of craft understood as an idea that shifts and changes over time"--Publisher information.
"A major new history of craft that spans three centuries of making and thinking in Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider Moana (Pacific). Paying attention to P�akeh�a, M�aori, and island nations of the wider Moana, and old and new migrant makers and their works, this book is a history of craft understood as an idea that shifts and changes over time"--Publisher information.
Contents:
INTRODUCTION
1 CRAFT AND ISLAND NATIONS
The ancestors of the arts / Tevita ʻŌ Kaʻili
No tangaroa ko tēna marae : connecting with Oceania / Julie Paama-Pengelly
The exchange of kula feathers / Tarisi Vunidilo
Pulotu, Hawaiki and Lapito / Hūfanga ·*Ōkusitino Māhina
2 CRAFT ON BOARD
Cook Samplers Vivien Caughley
Blacksmithing on Guam Michael Bevacqua
The Ancestry of Te Aute Nikau Gabrielle Hindin
An Iconic Collectible Donald Kerr
3 CRAFT AND BELIEF
Craft and 'Civilisation' ,at the LMS Museum Chris Wingfield
Identifying Early Colonial-made Furniture William Cottrell
The Art of Tuvalu Crochet: Kolose Maromo T-Pole
A Vidorian Gothic Masterpiece Ann Calhoun
God in their luggage' Julie Adams
4 CRAFT AND THE AUTHENTIC
Needlework in the New Zealand education system / Stella Lange
St Barnabasʻ Chapel, Norfolk Island / Anna Calhoun
Polynesian corpuscles : tracing cultural stratificaion through craft / Ioana Gordon-Smith
From furniture restoration to faking taonga / Elizabeth Cotton
Makea : Queen of Rarotonga, preserver of womenʻs weaving traditions / Joanna Cobley
The Havelock Work : craft and the occult / Georgina White
Liberty and Co. in New Zealand / Water Cook
Mary Eleanor Joachim, Bookbinder / Margery Blackman
The Womenʻs Section / Moira White
5 CRAFT AND TOURISM
Souvenirs of the ʻEighth Wonder of the Worldʻ / Richard Wolfe
Crafting kapa haka / Tryphena Cracknell
A novelty barometer / Marguerita Hill
The Coral Route / Lynette Townsend
The coconut shell as art object / John Perry
Māori culture and the contemporary scene / Taarati Taiaroa
Fashioning souvenirs / Elizabeth Wratislav
The Geyser Room experience / Michael Smythe
The world came knocking / Kevin Murray
6 CRAFT AND THE MODERN
Making do in hard times / Rosemary McLeod
'Something to see' : Women's Institutes / Claire Regnault
Guilds and societies in craft practice / Helen Schamroth
Theo Schoon : Bauhaus to our house / Andrew Paul Wood
Joseph Churchward's Handcrafted Typefaces / Safua Akeli Amaama
Studio craft and the everyday / Moyra Elliott
A new vision for New Zealand craft / Lucy Hammonds
Indigenous Pacific museums and cultural centres / Tarisi Vunidilo
Craft and the hippie myth / Vic Evans
Peter Stichbury and Abuja / Justine Olsen
7 CRAFT AND BELONGING
The craft of punk / Simon Swale
The permanent crucible / Benjamin Lignel
Craft and conceptual art Warren Feeney
Bone stone shell across the Ditch / Julie Ewington
What Planet do you come from? / Rosanna Raymond
New Zealand Wearable Art and the craft conundrum / Natalie Smith
Words were loaded / Siliga David Setoga
Tatau as craft / Sean Mallon
Crafting a continuum / Ane Tonga
Mau Mahara / Philip Clarke
The 1983 Tokomaru Bay Weaving Hui / Christina Hurihia Wirihana
Pacific men's craft in New Zealand / Sean Mallon
8 CRAFT IN THE CONTEMPORARY
Street craft in a cracked city / Reuben Woods
From craft practitioners to designer-makers / Michael Smythe
Crafting make believe / Claire Regnoult
Contemporary quilting communities / Jane Groufsky
Slow fashion and craft activism / Natalie Smith
More than just a cup of tea / Johnny Hui
The social and sustainably crafted object / Andrea Bell
Masi : wedding ceremonial dress practices in Fiji / Joana Monolagi
Performing Measina : craft in contemporary Pacific performance / Lona Lopesi
Kōwhaiwhai ceramics / Tharron Bloomfield
Our mothers were not marked / Julia MOGE*AU Gray
He rauemi tūturu : muka in contemporary New Zealand jewellery practice / Tryphena Cracknell
Meliors Simms : agent of change / Bronwyn Lloyd
Casting shadow, chasing light / Lydia Boxendell
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.
ISBN:
9780994136275
0994136277
OCLC:
1118996645
Publisher Number:
99985125866

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