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 ...

After the Maori welcome and the Poi and Haka are done, we have the chance to visit the rest of the Te Puia Cultural Center. Initially, Te Puia focused on traditional Maori hand crafts, especially ...

To mark the 100 year centenary of Nissui, Aotearoa Fisheries Limited will present to Nissui a gift of Maori carvings. It is gifted for and on behalf of all 58 iwi (tribes) of New Zealand. Aotearoa ...

Wellington: Five historic wooden panels carved by New Zealand's indigenous Maoris have been returned to the country from Switzerland more than four decades after they were illegally exported, a senior ...

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 ...

Damage caused by the fire to the carvings can be seen in these photos. Rodney Police are investigating the arson of a Maori carving at Whangaparaoa College. The carvings, which had been commissioned ...

SINGAPORE: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern unveiled a Maori carving at Cloud Forest in Gardens by the Bay on Tuesday (Apr 19), as part of her three-day visit to Singapore. The Kūwaha ...

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 ...

SINGAPORE - At the entrance of the Gardens by the Bay's Cloud Forest, amid the lush greenery of plants native to New Zealand, a symbolic doorway greets visitors. The new Maori kuwaha carving, named ...

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 ...