{"id":69748,"date":"2025-02-28T14:29:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T05:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/28\/toi-te-mana-an-indigenous-history-of-maori-art-book"},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T05:29:54","slug":"our-people-were-so-innovative-maori-art-celebrated-in-landmark-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69748","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our people were so innovative\u2019: M\u0101ori art celebrated in landmark book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous history of M\u0101ori art showcases creative work across a diverse range of mediums<\/p>\n<p>A new landmark book celebrating M\u0101ori art has clocked up a couple of impressive firsts: not only is it the most comprehensive account of creative work by Indigenous New Zealanders ever published, it is also the first wide-ranging art history written entirely by M\u0101ori scholars.<\/p>\n<p>Spanning 600 pages and including more than 500 images, Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous history of M\u0101ori art<strong> <\/strong>was written over 12 years by University of Auckland scholars Ngarino Ellis, Deidre Brown and the late Jonathan Mane-Wheoki.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/28\/toi-te-mana-an-indigenous-history-of-maori-art-book\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous history of M\u0101ori art showcases creative work across a diverse range of mediumsA new landmark book celebrating M\u0101ori art has clocked up a couple of impressive firsts: not only is it the most comprehensive account of creative w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,91,41,897,56,1554],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-painting"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69749,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69748\/revisions\/69749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}