Toi Te Mana

Deidre Brown (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu) is a Māori art and architectural historian and professor of architecture at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland. Her books include Māori Architecture, Introducing Māori Art, and the multiauthored Art in Oceania. Brown is a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi and Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects. Ngarino Ellis (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou) is associate professor of art history at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland. She is the author of A Whakapapa of Tradition and coeditor of Te Puna (with Deidre Brown) and Te Ata (with Witi Ihimaera). Ellis’s curatorial projects include exhibitions at the Linden Museum and Auckland Art Gallery. Jonathan Mane-Wheoki CNZM (1943–2014; Ngāpuhi, Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kurī) was an art historian specializing in Māori, New Zealand, and European art. He was the director of art and collection services at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and head of the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland.

"The achievement of Toi Te Mana (which roughly translates as ‘arts of power’) is of another order altogether. Its subtitle points to its distinctiveness. This is both a work grounded in and animated by Māori concepts—of time, place, people and valuables—and the outcome of sophisticated art-historical research, which deftly mobilizes the discipline’s foundational methods and the feminist and postcolonial perspectives that have challenged the field. . . . Toi Te Mana is remarkable not only for its lucid broader history but also for fascinating detail regarding specific works, images, and histories, and even of quirks such as notable fakes."

• He kupu whakataki—PrefaceTīmatanga kōrero—Introduction  Part 1—Te Kete Tuatea1 Ngā momo waka: Moana, migration and Māori / Ngarino EllisTā Hekenukumaingāiwi Busby, KNZM MBE (1932–2019) / Ngarino Ellis2 Ngā toi whakairo: The arts of carving / Ngarino EllisThe Taiapa brothers: Carving in the twentieth century / Ngarino EllisMorelli and the nineteenth-century papahou artist / Ngarino EllisMāori art and archaeology / Deidre Brown3 Ngā kākahu: Textiles / Ngarino EllisTahuaroa, pākūwhā and hākari: The display and gifting of taonga / Ngarino EllisTihei mauri ora: The remaking of cloaks from museum collections / Ngarino Ellis4 Ngā whare: Architecture / Deidre Brown and Ngarino EllisPakaariki Harrison, QSO (1928–2008) / Ngarino Ellis5 Ngā toi whenua: Rock art / Deidre Brown6 Ngā taonga o Wharawhara: Body adornment / Ngarino EllisAreta Wilkinson / Deidre BrownPounamu / Ngarino Ellis7 Mana wāhine, mana tāne, mana takatāpui: Depicting gender in Māori art / Ngarino EllisMen and weaving / Ngarino Ellis  Part 2—Te Kete Tuauri8 Taonga, Māori and museums / Ngarino EllisTāngata mamae: The tragic story of Te Maro, Ranginui and Te Kuku / Ngarino EllisJoseph Banks and the forty brass patu replicas / Ngarino EllisTupaia / Ngarino Ellis9 Māori art and the Christian missions / Deidre BrownHongi Hika’s self-portraits / Deidre BrownHone Heke’s ‘collar’ / Deidre BrownHe tikanga hōu? Figurative art in Rangitukia in 1838 / Ngarino Ellis10 The art of utu / Deidre BrownThe Mātaatua wharenui / Jonathan Mane-Wheoki11 Transforming cultures and traditions: New materials, ideas and technologies / Ngarino EllisMoko signatures and tino rangatiratanga / Ngarino EllisEarly Māori drawings / Deidre BrownThe second age of iron / Deidre Brown12 Ngā toi mōrehu: The arts of survival / Deidre BrownMāori flags and banners / Deidre Brown13 Ka whawhai tonu mātou: Taonga and museums since 1900 / Ngarino EllisTrick or taonga: The mysterious case of the green-painted patu pora / Deidre BrownFakes in the collection / Ngarino EllisCollecting the ancestors / Ngarino EllisEnrico Giglioli and the taonga collection in the Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography, Rome / Ngarino Ellis  Part 3—Te Kete Aronui14 The art of social reform: Te Puea, Ngata and Rātana / Deidre BrownTe Araiteuru pā at the 1906 New Zealand International Exhibition / Deidre Brown15 The emergence of contemporary Māori art 1950–1975 / Jonathan Mane-WheokiOriwa Haddon (1898–1958) / Deidre Brown and Jonathan Mane-WheokiRamai Hayward (1916–2014) / Deidre Brown and Jonathan Mane-WheokiPauline Kahurangi Yearbury (1926–1977) / Deidre Brown16 Urban Māori art and architecture / Deidre BrownStreet art / Deidre Brown17 A new tradition or old disruption? / Contemporary Māori exhibitions 1990–2021 / Deidre BrownMāori architects and architectural designers / Deidre BrownMāori designers / Deidre BrownMāori Moving Image exhibition / Ngarino EllisWairau Māori Art Gallery: The first public Māori art gallery / Deidre Brown18 Māori art in Western Europe and Australia / Deidre BrownNgāti Rānana and Hinemihi / Deidre Brown and Ngarino EllisMāori art as a cultural property / Deidre Brown19 Haumi ē! Hui ē! Tāiki ē! Māori and Indigenous art on the global stage / Ngarino EllisNgā taonga uku: Māori ceramicists and clay workers / Deidre BrownContemporary Māori clothing / Deidre BrownAdvice to Māori artists / Jonathan Mane-Wheoki  Whakamutunga—ConclusionNgā pitopito kōrero—NotesKuputaka—GlossaryRārangi pukapuka—Select bibliographyKuputohu—Index