Nga aro-takaro : 100 Maori games artefacts

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Nga aro-takaro : 100 Maori games artefacts

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Auckland Museum Collections

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"Aro-takaro are the 'face' of traditional Maori games. They are the iconic implements associated with indigenous games practices, rituals and protocols. A testament to their prolific ancient uses are the numerous games artefacts, vividly etched in millennia-old cave paintings, all over Aotearoa/NZ. Aro-takaro were spiritually conceived from the environment by villagers and perfected as social and educational tools by tohunga, the intellectual giants of the day, known as Hohou-Rongo - revered ...

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Date created

2019

Creator

Yves Brown / Harko Brown

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https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/collections/record/1134811

Locations

Bay Of Islands, Northland, New Zealand

Related subjects

Maori (New Zealand people)

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