Awards

• Short-listed for Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Lifestyle and Contemporary Culture Category 2006
• Shortlisted for Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Lifestyle and Contemporary Culture Category 2006.

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This stunning book presents a photographic survey that traverses the concepts and values of traditional Maori weaving through to innovative, contemporary weaving practice. The evocative photos and text reveal the spiritual significance of weaving within Maori culture. A number of the works in the book featured in the international touring exhibition of Maori weaving, Toi Maori: the Eternal Thread - Te Aho Mutunga Kore, which will return from America in 2006.

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9781869691615

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Miriama Evans (Ngati Mutunga, Ngai Tahu) is one of the Spiral Collective that first published Keri Hulme's The Bone People in 1983. She was a co-editor of The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry, Nga Kupu Titohu o Aotearoa in 1989. Ranui Ngarimu (Ngati Mutunga, Ngai Tahu) is a weaver using traditional Maori technology. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is the current Chairperson of Te Roopu Raranga Whatu o Aotearoa, the National Maori Weavers Collective of New Zealand.

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