Carved Histories: Rotorua Ngati Tarawhai Carving - Tapa blanda

This companion volume to Roger Neich's Painted Histories is now published in paperback for the first time. Carved Histories is the classic account of one of the most influential traditions of Maori wood carving in New Zealand. It pieces together the history of Ngati Tarawhai carving from pre-European times to the present day and analyses the personalities, families, and social changes that shaped the work. Carved Histories includes biographies of key carvers, a list of all known Ngati Tarawhai carvings, maps and genealogies as well as black and white and colour illustrations.

Roger Neich is an anthropologist specializing in Maori art. He is the curator of ethnology at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, a professor of anthropology at the University of Auckland, and the former ethnologist at the National Museum of New Zealand. He is the author of Pacific Jewellery and Adornment, Pacific Tapa, Painted Histories: Early Maori Figurative Painting, and Traditional Tapa Textiles of the Pacific.