Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Tattooed history : the story of mokomokai
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
5 Continents
Place
Date
2021?
Physical Description
179 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
8874399650
9788874399659
Language
English
Te Reo Māori
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The First Written Accounts -- A Question of Language: from Mokomokai and Mokamokai Heads: Mata Rahui to Toi Moko -- Colonial Commodities:Trafficking in Mokomokai,from 1770 to 1840 -- Exhibiting Mokomokai for Profit in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain -- Mokomokai at British Auctions:1820 to 1988 -- Mokomokai in New Zealand from 1840 to 1975 -- Horatio Gordon Robley:the "Soldier With A Pencil" -- Mokomokai and the Last Major British Collectors -- Carved "Memorial" or "Trespass" Heads: Mata Rahui -- Mokomokai and the Law of Human Remains -- The Repatriation of Toi Moko to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa -- Documentary Appendices -- Maori Glossary -- Selected Bibliography
Public Access Text
[Keywords: Tattooing--History--New Zealand; Mummies--New Zealand]
Includes bibliographical references
Collection Type
General Collection
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
Language Description
English with Maori nomenclature
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