Kahutoi Te Kanawa

New Zealand university teacher, curator, weaver and textile artist (born 1960)

Diggeress Te Kanawa (mother)

Kahutoi Mere Te Kanawa (born 1960)^[1] is a New Zealand Māori university teacher, curator, weaver and textile artist.^[2]^[3] Her works have been collected and displayed both nationally and internationally.^[2] She has worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Otago and a curator at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.^[2] Te Kanawa is member of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Te Awa project team.^[4]^[5] This project uses the expertise of Māori specialists such as Te Kanawa to enrich the information on Māori taonga in the collection of the Museum.^[5]

Personal life

Te Kanawa has tribal affiliations to Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui (including Ngāti Rārua) and Ngāti Tūwharetoa.^[6] She is the sister of Rangi Te Kanawa, daughter of Diggeress Te Kanawa and granddaughter of Dame Rangimārie Hetet.^[3]^[4]

Selected publications

Smith, C. A., White, M., & Te Kanawa, K. (2011). The preservation of Māori textiles: Collaboration, research and cultural meaning. In Cultural Heritage/Cultural Identity–The Role of Conservation. Preprints of the 16th Triennial ICOM-CC Conference.
Te Kanawa, K., (2009) Toi Maramatanga: a visual Māori art expression of meaning. Master of Arts thesis, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland.
Te Kanawa, K. (2006). Mai i te ao kohatu: weaving – an artform derived from mātauranga Māori as a gift from the ancestors. In Turoua Ngā Whetū Research Colloquium. Te Tumu – School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin.
Wood, B., Henare, A., Lander, M., and Te Kanawa, K. (2003). Visiting the house of gifts: the 1998 ‘Maori’ exhibition at the British Museum. Journal of New Zealand Literature 21: 83–101.

References

^ "Kanawa, Kahutoi Te". Find New Zealand Artists. Archived from the original on 5 February 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Tipa, Rob (October 2006). "Weaving Magic" (PDF). University of Otago Magazine (15). University of Otago: 23–25. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 February 2024. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
^ ^a ^b Kim, Whizy (June 2019). "People of the Land". Morning Calm. Photography by Erica Sinclair. Archived from the original on 28 December 2020.
^ ^a ^b Byrt, Anthony (28 November 2018). "Unwinding colonial legacies: Auckland Museum's transformation". Metro Magazine. Archived from the original on 22 October 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Meet: The Te Awe Team". Radio New Zealand. Produced by Auckland War Memorial Museum. 21 September 2020. Archived from the original on 19 November 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ Tamarapa, Awhina, ed. (August 2019). Whatu Kākahu: Māori Cloaks. Wellington: Te Papa Press. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-9951136-3-3. OCLC 1113678889. OL 44012499M. Wikidata Q122446219.