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Maori Weaving: The Art of Creating Maori Textiles by Brian James Bargh, Cherie Taylor and Vanessa Bidois
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Series: 1st
Since the ancestors arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand and discovered the useful properties of harakeke (New Zealand flax), Māori have used flax leaves to create baskets, mats, housing materials, clothing, ropes and fishing nets. In weaving and the patterns used, Māori record histories and stories, passin ...Show more
Marae: The Heart of Maori Culture by Brian James Bargh and Malcolm Mulholland
$20.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good-near fine
This book is a comprehensive, concise guide to the marae, including the space and how it is arranged, the buildings on a marae, the functions of and gatherings held at marae, and the cultural understandings and values underpinning marae custom and protocol.
Stories on the Four Winds: Nga hau e Wha by Brian Bargh; Robyn Bargh
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: 1st
This collection brings together twenty short stories from eighteen of New Zealand's accomplished writers. They explore the dark and dangerous milieu of our comfortable existence. There is humour, tenderness, surprise, anger, sorrow and abject desperation in these stories from the four winds.
Te Ika a Maori: The Struggle for Maori Fishing Rights by Brian Bargh
$45.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori | Series: 1st | Reading Level: Near Fine
Maori fishing rights were guaranteed by the Treaty of Waitangi, taken away by Crown actions, and, along with Maori land rights and other grievances, contested throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Finally, after years of struggle in the courts, through the Waitangi Tribunal and in protests, Maori fishing righ ...Show more
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