Historic Maori carvings are set to return to New Zealand after a 130-year staycation at an English country house. England’s National Trust, which owns Clandon House, has agreed in principle with the ...

YOU don’t have to fly all the way to New Zealand to experience Maori carvings now. Just visit the ‘Tuku Iho | Living Legacy’ exhibition at Muzium Tuanku Fauziyah in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM).

Two ornate Māori wooden carvings that had been stored at the SA Museum are now destined for New Zealand. The carvings, called "pou", depict Māori ancestors and had been in the museum's collection for ...

Long lost treasured whakairo rākau located in museums across the globe. Professor Brown visits one of the eight missing whakairo - a kūwaha pātaka doorway on display at the Ethnological Museum in ...

In one of the pictures of the weavers in the last post, one of the women had a tattoo on her chin. Tattoos, called Moko, have been an integral part of Maori culture for many hundreds of years. Far ...

Wiremu Puke carved a replica of a wooden panel collected by Joseph Banks, botanist of Captain James Cook’s first visit to New Zealand in 1769 A New Zealand Maori artist showed visitors his ...

They've survived a century and a half buried in a swamp and 40 years exile in Europe. They were almost sold off to pay for a kidnapping ransom and were the centre of four decades of international ...

Two large Maori wooden carvings will be repatriated to Aotearoa New Zealand today after 130 years at the South Australian Museum. Speaking about the carvings and repatriation are Pohatu Paku from the ...