Maori Rafter & Taniko Designs, 9781990042799
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Classic Maori art reborn: meeting house designs, weaving, and rich patterns.
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Maori Rafter & Taniko Designs

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    72 pages

  • Release Date

    10 June 2025

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Summary

Weaving Maori Heritage: A Guide to Rafter and Taniko Designs

Long out of print, this classic guide to the design of meeting-house rafters, taniko weaving and tukutuku returns in an all-new colour printing. Maori Rafter & Taniko Designs is an essential source of information about the development and features of whakairo tuhituhi.

This complete redesign of W.J. Phillipps’ classic work, first published in 1943, introduces key patterns in an accessible manner with r…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781990042799
ISBN-10:1990042791
Author:W.J. Phillipps
Publisher:Oratia Media
Imprint:Oratia Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:72
Edition:4th
Release Date:10 June 2025
Weight:300g
Dimensions:250mm x 185mm x 10mm
About The Author

W.J. Phillipps

William John (W.J.) Phillipps was born in Oamaru in 1893. In 1915, he joined the staff of the Dominion Museum (now Te Papa Tongarewa), Wellington, where he worked as an ethnologist, ichthyologist, ornithologist and scientific illustrator. During a career that spanned five decades, he published some 200 scientific papers and authored several books in the fields of zoology and anthropology. He passed away in 1967.

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