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A new project is underway tracing the development
of Maori art from its traditional origins to the present day.
Toi Te Mana will be the first comprehensive indigenous art history
of its kind created by Maori and aims to redefine art history.
Here's Raiha Johns.
Jonathan Mane-Wheoki is an art historian
and a researcher of Maori art.
A Marsden scholarship was awarded to him and his colleagues
Dr Ngarino Ellis and Dr Deidre Brown to research Maori art history.
The history of Maori art is not recognised on a global scale.
The scholarship, awarded
to the team of the University of Auckland, is worth $600,000.
The goal is for Maori to be
recognised, talked about and seen by the world from a Maori perspective.
Mane-Wheoki was also honoured by the Royal NZ Society last year.
He's written a number of reports for the Waitangi Tribunal too.
The amazing thing is that he achieved all this
whilst sick with cancer.
Research for the project starts in March, and it is anticipated
that the book will be published in five years.
Raiha Johns, Te Karere.