$87.46
- Hardcover
88 pages
- Release Date
10 June 2020
Summary
The Hidden Bird of Tāne: Weaving Wisdom Through Generations
This captivating photo book chronicles a wānanga, a sacred learning experience, shared by three generations of Ngāti Torehina ki Mataka women. They gather to learn the ancestral art of collecting North Island brown kiwi feathers, a practice essential for traditional weaving.
This passing on of knowledge arose from a unique collaboration between conservationists and weavers, ensuring that accidentally deceased kiwi a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780995123069 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0995123063 |
| Author: | Eugene Hansen, Jenny Gillam |
| Publisher: | Massey University Press |
| Imprint: | Massey University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 88 |
| Release Date: | 10 June 2020 |
| Weight: | 481g |
| Dimensions: | 220mm x 190mm x 1mm |
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‘Look at this dead bird and feel the sight of it catch in your craw, claw at your throat, feel it spill from your eyes, this book should make you feel uncomfortable, this book should make you want things to be different, this book should make you move.’
– essa may ranapiri * The Spinoff *‘It’s books like this that will help us to rethink how we as a society need to change.’
– Leilani Tamu * RNZ *About The Author
Eugene Hansen
Jennifer Gillam is a photographer, writer and exhibiting multimedia artist. She is a senior lecturer and programme leader in Massey University’s Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her projects are often produced collaboratively with other artists or with experts from another field. She lives in Wellington.
Eugene Hansen (Maniapoto) is a senior lecturer at Massey University’s Whiti o Rehua School of Art, Wellington. Focusing on co-authoring and working collaboratively, he has a long-term multimedia art practice exhibiting nationally and internationally. Eugene attributes his interest in collaboration to growing up in the remote rural Māori community featured in this book, where cultural production was modelled as an inherently collaborative embracing of mātauranga Māori. He lives in Wellington.
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