Carved Histories

Roger Neich is an anthropologist specializing in Maori art. He is the curator of ethnology at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, a professor of anthropology at the University of Auckland, and the former ethnologist at the National Museum of New Zealand. He is the author of Pacific Jewellery and Adornment, Pacific Tapa, Painted Histories: Early Maori Figurative Painting, and Traditional Tapa Textiles of the Pacific.

Contents include: 1. Introduction -- 2. Early History of Ngati Tarawhai -- 3. Later History of Ngati Tarawhai -- 4. Ngati Tarawhai and the New Zealand Wars -- 5. Ngati Tarawhai as an Iwi -- 6. The Woodcarvers of Ngati Tarawhai -- 7. Connections with Ngati Pikiao Woodcarving -- 8. Art and Theory -- 9. Style, Text and Causality -- 10. Nineteenth Century Concepts of Art in New Zealand -- 11. Maori Carving and endash; Idea and Act -- 12. From Canoes to Meeting Houses -- 13. Maori Patronage -- 14. European Patronage -- 15. Early Tourist Art in Rotorua -- 16. Individual Carvers and their Styles -- 17. The Changing Language -- 18. Changing Patronage -- 19. Changing Consciousness -- 20. Conclusion.