Kōrero: Perceptions of the landscape

Māori whare, 1870s

Māori whare, 1870s

This family is standing outside a whare puni (small communal sleeping house) at Mangaakuta, near Masterton. The story of the demigod Māui fishing up the North Island from a waka (canoe) has been painted on the house’s bargeboards. Landscapes were seldom pictured directly in Māori art.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, James Bragge Collection
Reference: 1/2-004136; F
Photograph by James Bragge

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Jock Phillips, 'Perceptions of the landscape - Ways of looking', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/14131/maori-whare-1870s (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 24 Sep 2007