After the Maori welcome and the Poi and Haka are done, we have the chance to visit the rest of the Te Puia Cultural Center. Initially, Te Puia focused on traditional Maori hand crafts, especially ...

Wiremu Puke carved a replica of a wooden panel collected by Joseph Banks, botanist of Captain James Cook’s first visit to New Zealand in 1769 A New Zealand Maori artist showed visitors his ...

Long lost treasured whakairo rākau located in museums across the globe. Professor Brown visits one of the eight missing whakairo - a kūwaha pātaka doorway on display at the Ethnological Museum in ...

SINGAPORE: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern unveiled a Maori carving at Cloud Forest in Gardens by the Bay on Tuesday (Apr 19), as part of her three-day visit to Singapore. The Kūwaha ...

Professor Deidre Brown visits one of the eight missing whakairo - a kūwaha pātaka doorway on display at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, Germany. Eight historically significant traditional Māori ...

(THE NEW PAPER) - "He waka eke noa", a Maori proverb that means "We are in this canoe together", reaffirms the strong community spirit of the Maori people and their philosophy of life that is evident ...

To mark the 100 year centenary of Nissui, Aotearoa Fisheries Limited will present to Nissui a gift of Maori carvings. It is gifted for and on behalf of all 58 iwi (tribes) of New Zealand. Aotearoa ...