Tattooed history : the story of mokomokai / Robert K. Paterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paterson, Robert K., 1946-

Contributor:

Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Māori (New Zealand people)--History.

Māori (New Zealand people).

History.

Tattooing--History.

Tattooing.

Māori (New Zealand people)--Social life and customs.

Tattooing--New Zealand--History.

Mummies--New Zealand.

Mummies.

Commerce.

New Zealand--Commerce--Europe--History--19th century.

New Zealand.

Europe--Commerce--New Zealand--History--19th century.

Europe.

New Zealand Region.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

179 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 20 cm

Place of Publication:

[Milan, Italy] : 5 Continents, [2021]

Summary:

Tattooed History: The Story of Mokomokai is the first book to comprehensively explore the history of these remarkable Maori ancestors. The elaborate facial markings (ta moko) of the Maori are well-known, but less so is the unique process of preserving the tattooed heads of both enemies and loved ones. This work presents many sources, documents and illustrations for the first time to explore its subject in a new and original way. Mokomokai were first encountered by Europeans during the exploration of New Zealand by James Cook. When missionaries, traders and other visitors learnt more about mokomokai they published the first descriptions of how they were preserved and the customs surrounding them. This book examines these early nineteenth century writings and describes how mokomokai were first exhibited to curious foreign onlookers around the same time. The acquisition of mokomokai by outsiders, often in exchange for weapons, is discussed along with how these heads formed part of the earliest collections of museums and other institutions.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The First Written Accounts

A Question of Language: from Mokomokai and Mokamokai to Toi Moko

Colonial Commodities: Trafficking in Mokomokai, from 1770 to 1840

Exhibiting Mokomokai for Profit in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain

Mokomokai at British Auctions: 1820 to 1988

Mokomokai in New Zealand from 1840 to 1975

Horatio Gordon Robley: the "Soldier With A Pencil"

Mokomokai and the Last Major British Collectors

Carved "Memorial" or "Trespass" Heads: Mata Rahui

Mokomokai and the Law of Human Remains

The Repatriation of Toi Moko to the Museum of New Zealand

Te Papa Tongarewa Documentary Appendices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

8874399650

9788874399659

OCLC:

1245344958

Publisher Number:

99989249143