Pukaki - a comet returns

by Paul Tapsell

Overview

Exploring the legacy of Pukaki, the ancestral father of Ngati Whakaue, a hapu (sub-tribe) of Te Arawa of Rotorua, this text also relates the history of the carving of Pukaki that featured in the Te Maori exhibition, its origins, how it was acquired by the Crown and how Ngati Whakaue regained it from the Auckland Museum in 1997.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781877514364
Publisher:	Oratia Books
Publication date:	12/22/2012
Sold by:	De Marque
Format:	eBook
Pages:	120
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

Paul Tapsell is professor of Māori studies at the University of Otago, Dunedin, and was formerly director Māori at the Auckland Museum. A graduate of Auckland and Oxford universities, he is a former Eisenhower fellow. His previous books are Pukaki: a comet returns (1999), a Montana Book Award winner, and Ko tawa: Maori treasures of New Zealand (2006), with photos by Krzysztof Pfeiffer.