Rangimarie - Recollections of her Life by Rora Paki-Titi SIGNED COPY

This is a second-hand copy of the book Rangimarie - Recollections of her Life by Rora Paki-Titi. This copy is signed by the author Rora Paki-Titi on the title page - see photos.

Condition: This is a used book in very good condition.

Publisher: Huia
Year: 1998
ISBN: 9780908975631
Format: Softback
Pages: 80
Condition: Used (Very Good)

This book is a warm, insightful tribute to a remarkable woman - Dame Rangimarie Hetet. This book provides an account of King Country life from the nineteenth-century until the present day (1998). In so doing it gives a singularly Māori perspective of the life of a renowned artist and cherished Kuia. Dame Rangimarie Hetet DBE was a New Zealand Māori tohunga raranga. She identified with the Ngati Maniapoto iwi. Hetet was born in Oparure, King Country, New Zealand on 24 May 1892, she was the most renowned Māori weaver of last century. Her radical approach to teaching weaving in the 1950s helped revitalise an art form in serious decline. Interesting note: Another noted Maori weaver: Erenora Puketapu was married to master carver Rangi Hetet, who was the grandson of renowned traditional weaver Rangimarie Hetet. Puketapu-Hetet learned cloak-weaving from Rangimarie and passed on her knowledge to her children and many others through books and weaving workshops.