Wi Te Tau Pirika Taepa : Te Arawa; Ngāti Whakaue, Te Roro o Te Rangi, Te Āti Awa : a dissertation, presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Māori Visual Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand

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Wi Te Tau Pirika Taepa : Te Arawa; Ngāti Whakaue, Te Roro o Te Rangi, Te Āti Awa : a dissertation, presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Māori Visual Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand

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Apart from the occasional production of musical instruments like nose flutes, the making and firing of clay artworks is pretty well unknown in Māori arts and crafts traditions, though its emergence is connected with the prehistoric Lapita pottery tradition of SE Asia and passed through New Caledonia, Melanesia, Central and Eastern Pacific to reach Samoa and Tonga by approximately 1000 BC, where it then ceased. From service in Vietnam, working as a prison officer at Wellington’s Wi Tako prison...

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Thesis

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Masters

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2018

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Taepa, Wi Te Tau Pirika

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https://hdl.handle.net/10179/14691

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Taepa, Wi, 1946-, artist / Sculptors -- New Zealand / Ceramic sculpture -- New Zealand / Art, Maori -- New Zealand / Uku / Kaihanga uku / Mahi toi / Waka toi / Whakairo

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