Te Tai Hau-a-uru: TaranakiUnpublished

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This eloquent and detailed Taranki history has grown out of research for the Ngati Ruanui tribal treaty claim against the New Zealand Crown. From pre-Hawaiki times it follows the Aotea canoe from Ranigatea in the Pacific to New Zealand Aotearoa and the settlement of Turi and his people at Patea. The...

Richard Barrett, arrived on a whaling ship from Sydney in 1829. He was one of New Zealand's key pioneers, marrying a high-born Maori woman and experienced first hand the conflict between Taranaki and Waikato Maori. He set up whaling stations and became a translator for the New Zealand company.

Maori Wood Carving of the Taranaki Region is a celebration of whakairo rakau (wood carving) from the region known to Maori as Te Tai Hauauru -- the 'western district' of Taranaki, between the Awakino and Whenuakura rivers. These are the best historical works housed in New Zealand museums from...

The reproduction of this collection of 19th century photographs of Maori by W.H.T. Partington is an important event, in both historical and photographic terms. Most of these photographs have never been exhibited before.

History of Parihaka, Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi and their non-violent resistance to land confiscation in Taranaki in the 1870s. In this revised edition Hazel Riseborough traces the Government's actions as they sought to establish European control of Taranaki and undermine Maori self...

The mountain known as both Taranaki and Egmont is arguably one of the most consistently represented icons of New Zealand art history. This lavish catalogue, published to mark the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery's 2001 exhibition Te Maunga Taranaki: views of a mountain, investigates the mountain's...