The Māori meeting house = Te whare rūnanga
Te Whare Runanga describes the history of the Maori meeting house. It details how the use of this building has developed from pre-European times to the present. Highly illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs. It describes how changes in building materials, decoration and the social life of the iwi has affected this most important building. Table of contents: * The significance of the meeting house on its marae (the development of the marae, the place of the marae in a changing culture) * Whare tipuna, the ancestor house (Carved houses) * The form and shape of the house (Tane, Tiki and Hinenuitepo. Reading the house, the importance of surface decoration on the carvings, tukutuku) * The tapu threshold (Major themes portrayed on the lintels) * The ceremonial meeting of tribes and peoples * Indexes (Marae, houses, tribes and hapu, carvers, ancestors portrayed)
Print Book, English, 1997
Reed, Auckland [N.Z.], 1997