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- Title
- Tales from Te Papa - Art of the Haka
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- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
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Ngāti Toa's 'Ka Mate' haka has inspired artwork as well as All Black fans. In this mini-documentary, presenter Riria Hotere talks to curator Megan Tamati-Quennell about Paratene Matchitt's Whiti te ra. The abstract painting was also inspired by Te Rauparaha's famous cry. Matchitt is an important Māori modernist artist, whose contemporaries included Ralph Hotere and Selwyn Muru. Also mentioned is Matchitt's City to Sea bridge, a sculptured walkway over Jervois Quay in Wellington which referenc...
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- Video
- Date created
- 2010
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- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/tales-from-te-papa-art-of-the-haka-2010
- Related subjects
- haka / ka mate / te rauparaha / para matchitt / selwyn muru / ralph hotere / whiti te ra / painting / te papa / city to sea bridge / wellington waterfront / wespac stadium / wellington / megan tamati quennell / curator / sculpture / installation / contemporary māori art / modernist māori art / māori art
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