Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania
A landmark publication that takes another look at craft and its broader cultural role.
Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai
Kolokesa U Māhina-Tuai has a background in art history, social anthropology and museum and heritage studies and was curator of Moana Oceania cultures at Te Papa Tongarewa from 2004 to 2008 and Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira from 2013 to 2017.
She has been a guest curator and consultant for Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, and a consultant for Alt Group and the Government of Tonga’s Culture Division, Ministry of Tourism.
She is co-author of Nimamea‘a: The fine arts of Tongan embroidery and crochet (Objectspace 2011), Tangata o le Moana: New Zealand and the people of the Pacific (Te Papa Press, 2012) and Kolose: The Art of Tuvalu Crochet (Māngere Arts Centre – Ngā Tohu o Uenuku, 2014).
Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai
Books
Tangata o le Moana: New Zealand and the People of the Pacific
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Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania
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