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Carved Histories

Rotorua Ngati Tarawhai Woodcarving

By: Roger Neich

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Carved Histories

Rotorua Ngati Tarawhai Woodcarving

By: Roger Neich

This comprehensive guide examines the personal histories, roles, and personalities that played into the traditional cultural art of carving. It also traces the influence of European patronage and the ensuing tourist trade upon this art form, as many Maori carvers began styling and catering their product to meet their clients’ aesthetic desires. Included is a discussion of the establishment of the government-sponsored Rotorua School of Maori Art in 1928, which appointed as the main tutor Eramiha Kapua, a Ngati Tarawhai carver, thus helping his own traditional tribal art to make the transition into a modern “national” art.

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Auckland University Press

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186940257X

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9781869402570

Pacific Jewelry and Adornment

By: Roger Neich,Fuli Pereira

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Pacific Jewelry and Adornment

By: Roger Neich,Fuli Pereira

This magnificent book showcases more than 250 of the finest examples of traditional jewelry from the Pacific. Myriad designs and materials, including jade, whale teeth and bone, shark teeth, tapa, shells, and plant fibers, are woven together in a skillful combination of color and craftsmanship. Apart from their beauty, these personal items also convey information about power, status, and community. Their significance, the ceremonies in which they are worn, and the messages they convey are explored in an illuminating introductory essay. Drawing on the extensive collections of the Auckland Museum, the jewelry shown here represents a vast geographical area: Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Hawaii, Niue, the Marquesas, the Cook Islands, and New Zealand. The amazing variety of styles and materials reflects the lifestyles, preoccupations, and imperatives of a people surrounded by the largest ocean on the planet.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824828828

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9780824828820

Carved Histories

Rotorua Ngati Tarawhai Woodcarving

By: Roger Neich

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Rotorua Ngati Tarawhai Woodcarving

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Pacific Tapa

By: Roger Neich,Mick Pendergrast

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Pacific Tapa

By: Roger Neich,Mick Pendergrast

Auckland Museum's collection of tapa cloth from around the Pacific is one of the most extensive in the world and it forms the basis of this comprehensive survey.

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170

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824829298

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9780824829292

Galleries of Maoriland

Artists, Collectors and the Maori World, 1880–1910

By: Roger Blackley

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Galleries of Maoriland

Artists, Collectors and the Maori World, 1880–1910

By: Roger Blackley

Galleries of Maoriland introduces us to the many ways in which European colonists to New Zealand discovered, created, propagated, and romanticised the Maori world summed up in a popular nickname describing New Zealand; Maoriland. But Blackley shows that Maori were not merely passive victims: they too had a stake in this process of romanticisation. What, this book asks, were some of the Maori purposes that were served by curio displays, portrait collections, and the wider ethnological culture? Galleries of Maoriland looks at Maori prehistory in European art; the enthusiasm of settlers and Maori for portraiture and recreations of ancient life; the trade in Maori curios; and the international exhibition of this colonial culture. By illuminating New Zealand's artistic and ethnographic economy, this book provides a new understanding of our art and our culture.

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732

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Auckland University Press

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1776710215

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9781776710218

Len Lye

A Biography

By: Roger Horrocks

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Len Lye

A Biography

By: Roger Horrocks

Len Lye: A Biography tells for the first time the story of a unique, charismatic artist who was an innovator in many areas&– film, kinetic sculpture, painting, photography and poetry. Born in New Zealand in 1901, Len Lye gained an international reputation in the arts and had friendships with many famous people&– including Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves, Gertrude Stein, John Grierson, Norman McLaren, Oskar Fischinger, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Laura Riding, Stan Brakhage, and the artists of the New York School. A colorful bohemian, Lye lived in London from 1926 to 1944 (where he made highly original hand-painted films for John Grierson's GPO Film Unit), then moved to New York for the last 36 years of his life. Describing Len Lye as a "trailblazer" and a "one-man modern art movement" in Sight & Sound, Ian Francis also celebrated this superb biography as "the definitive piece of Lye scholarship.

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510

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Auckland University Press

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1775581098

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9781775581093

Tradition and Change in Māori and Pacific Art

Essays

By: Roger Neich

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Tradition and Change in Māori and Pacific Art

Essays

By: Roger Neich

This collection of eighteen essays span Roger Neich's career - from a 1971 article on a Bougainville ancient stone bird carving to a 2005 study on the powaka whakairo form of Maori treasure box. At the heart of the collection stand his studies of Maori art, focusing on wood-carving and figurative painting. This book acknowledges the contribution Roger Neich made, not only to research and scholarship but to the way the public came to see Māori and Pacific art in new ways.--From book flap.

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441

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0473258722

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9780473258726

Pacific Tapa

By: Roger Neich,Mick Pendergrast

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Pacific Tapa

By: Roger Neich,Mick Pendergrast

Auckland Museum's collection of tapa cloth from around the Pacific is one of the most extensive in the world and it forms the basis of this comprehensive survey.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824829298

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Traditional Tapa Textiles of the Pacific

By: Roger Neich,Mick Pendergrast,Krzysztof Pfeiffer

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Traditional Tapa Textiles of the Pacific

By: Roger Neich,Mick Pendergrast,Krzysztof Pfeiffer

The manufacture of tapa cloth, made from the inner bark of certain trees, is one of the most intriguing products of the cultures of the Pacific islands. This book presents a complete range of the ancient art of tapa, from cloth brought back from the first European voyages to the Pacific to contemporary examples. The origins, materials, manufacturing techniques, and common uses of tapa are described and illustrated with 263 illustrations, 208 in color.

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160

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Thames & Hudson

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0500279896

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9780500279892

Effective Ecology

Seeking Success in a Hard Science

By: Roger D. Cousens

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Effective Ecology

Seeking Success in a Hard Science

By: Roger D. Cousens

Ecology is one of the most challenging of sciences, with unambiguous knowledge much harder to achieve than it might seem. But it is also one of the most important sciences for the future health of our planet. It is vital that our efforts are as effective as possible at achieving our desired outcomes. This book is intended to help individual ecologists to develop a better vision for their ecology – and the way they can best contribute to science. The central premise is that to advance ecology effectively as a discipline, ecologists need to be able to establish conclusive answers to key questions rather than merely proposing plausible explanations for mundane observations. Ecologists need clear and honest understanding of how we have come to do things the way we do them now, the limitations of our approaches, our goals for the future and how we may need to change our approaches if we are to maintain or enhance our relevance and credibility. Readers are taken through examples to show what a critical appraisal can reveal and how this approach can benefit ecology if it is applied more routinely. Ecological systems are notable for their complexity and their variability. Ecology is, as indicated by the title of this book, a truly difficult science. Ecologists have achieved a great deal, but they can do better. This book aims to encourage early-career researchers to be realistic about their expectations: to question everything, not to take everything for granted, and to make up their own minds.

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303

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CRC Press

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1000923649

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9781000923643

Mercer's Belles

The Journal of a Reporter

By: Roger Conant

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Mercer's Belles

The Journal of a Reporter

By: Roger Conant

Originally published in 1960 and long out of print, Mercer's Belles is a classic of Northwest history and even inspired a television series, Here Come the Brides. Roger Conant's 1866 report of his shipboard travels with the Mercer Girls on their three-month voyage from New York to San Francisco and Seattle is here republished in its entirety, including Lenna Deutsch's invaluable reference material and the original photographs. A new foreword by Northwest historian Susan Armitage places the journal in historical perspective. Civil War losses had created a surplus of unattached women on the eastern seaboard. In the new western territories, women were sought as wives and teachers. Asa Mercer, president of the territorial university in Seattle, organized a project for female emigration. To a group of men in the West he promised, for a fee, to bring a suitable wife of good moral character and reputation. To the women of the East he offered free passage to Washington Territory. People greeted Mercer's plans with mixed feelings, and he never recruited the number of women he originally anticipated would make the long journey west. The story of Mercer's Belles came to occupy an important and interesting niche in regional history. Never has the story been told as thoroughly, as entertainingly, or as well as in Roger Conant's journal, accompanied by Lenna Deutsch's insightful reference material. It is fitting that Mercer's Belles now be made available for a new generation of readers.

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176

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0874220890

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9780874220896

How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime

By: Roger Corman,Jim Jerome

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How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime

By: Roger Corman,Jim Jerome

This revealing autobiography details Roger Corman's rise from Twentieth Century-Fox messenger to antistudio maverick and producer of low-budget "exploitation" films. With such memorable titles as The Little Shop of Horrors, Attack of the Crab Monsters and The Beast with 1,000 Eyes, Corman carved his niche in the history of Hollywood. Photographs.

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Delta

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0385304897

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9780385304894

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Carved Histories

Carved Histories

Pacific Jewelry and Adornment

Pacific Jewelry and Adornment

Carved Histories

Carved Histories

Pacific Jewelry and Adornment

Pacific Jewelry and Adornment

Pacific Tapa

Pacific Tapa

Galleries of Maoriland

Galleries of Maoriland

Len Lye

Len Lye

Tradition and Change in Māori and Pacific Art

Tradition and Change in Māori and Pacific Art

Pacific Tapa

Pacific Tapa

Traditional Tapa Textiles of the Pacific

Traditional Tapa Textiles of the Pacific

Effective Ecology

Effective Ecology

Mercer's Belles

Mercer's Belles

How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime

How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime

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