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Te Mahi Kete
  • Published: 24 November 2008
  • ISBN: 9780143011033
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 100
  • RRP: $35.00
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Te Mahi Kete

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Anyone can learn to make a plaited kete, one of the oldest and most popular of Māori art forms, from the leaves of New Zealand flax (phormium tenax). Te Mahi Kete gives detailed, step-by-step instructions, illustrated with numerous line drawings and black-and-white photographs, for preparing the flax and plaiting two simple types of kete. It also shows variations in technique for starting and finishing, making the handles and incorporating a decorative pattern.
  • Published: 24 November 2008
  • ISBN: 9780143011033
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 100
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

About the author

Mick Pendergrast

Mick Pendergrast (1932-2010) was a distinguished New Zealand curator, ethnologist, researcher, collector and author of books about Māori arts and crafts, for which he had cultivated a lifelong interest. He taught on the East Cape and in the Solomon Islands, worked in many of New Zealand's museums, and curated two exhibitions of Māori weaving: 'Feathers and Fibre' at the Rotorua Art Gallery in 1982 and 'Te Aho Tapu: The Sacred Thread' at the Auckland Museum in 1987. He was awarded an associate Emeritus of Auckland War Memorial Museum in 2002. His other books include Te Mahi Kete, Te Aho Tapu and Fun with Flax.

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