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In Māori culture, Matariki is the Pleiades star cluster and a celebration of its first rising in late June or early July. The rising marks the beginning of the new year in the Māori lunar calendar. Historically, Matariki was usually celebrated for a period of days during the last quarter of the moon of the lunar month Pipiri (around June).
Te Maori (or sometimes Te Māori in modern sources) was a landmark exhibition of Māori art (taonga [Note 1]) that toured the United States from 1984 to 1986, and New Zealand as Te Maori: Te Hokinga Mai ('the return home') from 1986 to 1987.
Matariki Williams is a Māori curator and writer based in Whakatāne, New Zealand. [1] In 2021, she was appointed Pou Matua Mātauranga Māori, Senior Historian, Mātauranga Māori at Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage in Wellington. [2] [3] She is a member of the Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Whakaue, and Ngāti Hauiti iwis. [3]
Māori cultural history intertwines inextricably with the culture of Polynesia as a whole. The New Zealand archipelago forms the southwestern corner of the Polynesian Triangle, a major part of the Pacific Ocean with three island groups at its corners: the Hawaiian Islands, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and New Zealand (Aotearoa in te reo Māori). [10]
The Celebration in East Bergholt of the Peace of 1814 Concluded in Paris between France and the Allied Powers: 1814 Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest: The Dell at Helmingham Park: 1830 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Écluse sur la rivière Stour: 1812 Department of Paintings of the Louvre: Vue de Hampstead Heath ; Effet d'orage: 1823
In 1699, Mardi Gras is said to have made its way to North America, thanks to French-Canadian explorer Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville. He settled down near present-day New Orleans and brought the ...
A cape of celebration: Matariki Caper by Kohai Grace: Riria Hotere & Kohai Grace, artist & Awhina Tamarapa, Curator 78: The Ocean's Tight Five: New Zealand: modern: Echinoderm – Marine Animals: Not found in Collections Online: Simon Morton & Rick Webber, Curator 79: Ruby's Room: New Zealand: 2000: Photographs by Ann Noble: Works from the ...
Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed a 2,100-year-old bronze hand that both astounded and puzzled experts. At the foot of a castle on Mount Irulegi, the invading ancient Roman army attacked and ...