Polynesian Wood Carving

Woodcarving Arts

Woodcarving skills (whakairo). The Maori tradition and many everyday items are lavishly decorated, from the bow of a whaka (canoe) to the poles of a white sanctuary and even taiha (weapons). The Maori wood carver used green stone instruments, which was valuable both for its thickness and because of its inherent beautifac.

Woodcarving is named White airo rakaw and concentrates on the use of a variety of indigenous woods, especially wood from the mighty giant of the woods, the cauri and dead macaw.

Polyynesian Arts

Also, with a lot of love for detail sculpted Tiki's museum in Hawaii. Spend your free day browsing through our vast range of Tiki woodcarvings, Tiki decor, surf shields, Indian art, Beach Decor, Polynesian Tiki masks, handmade Hawaii jewellery, vintage and E-Gift Card. Have a look at our Tiki Gods and Forests of Hawaii pages to find out more about what the different tikis are and what wood is used in the woodcarvings of Hawaii.

War Memorial Aukland

Only a few of you who subscribe to our newsletters do not yet know that Jan and I have travelled to Australia and back for a few WEEK. In order to interrupt the 25-hour trip, we stayed 3 nights in Auckland. Naturally, nothing was more obvious than to trace "all wood" in the Polynesian triangle.

Our 5am Arrive in Auckland - Very few visitors wonder about the hallway. Auckland War Memorial Museum. The Auckland Museum has the biggest and most precious collections of M?ori t?onga (treasures) in the auckland. Taionga offer their offspring a concrete connection to their traditional landscape, their past and the before them.

They were not only wild fighters (with pukanas or the prominent tongues - a kind of fear and diversion for their enemies), but the M?ori were experienced artisans and great seafarers. Constructed around 1836, it is 25 meters long and has a capacity of 100 persons. Like many of M?ori's properties, the rafts were elaborately made.

M?ori also used the wood for large woodcarvings and framings for wares. Constructed 1875-1878; Hotunui (meeting house) opened on September 19, 1878 to mark the marriage between Marut??hu Riangatira Wirope Hotereni Taipari and Mereana Mokomoko, subsidiary of Ng?ti Awa Chief Apanui Hamaiwaho. Relocated to Auckland in 1915; formally inaugurated on 29 November 1929, Hotunui's home - a venue for assembly and guest entertainments - is now the heart of the Auckland Museum's M?ori Court.

We had the chance to see the restorations used in the conservation of the Hotunui and to get to know the traditions and method. M?ori has traditionally been built using the country's native resources, which include the bark-covered sides and rooftops and the fissured stems of the Pangha (tree) ferns.

The traditional M?ori woodcarvings do not depict realistic shapes. A conference house's architectural and creative features are full of symbols. It is the man's own corpse, his mind directly under the teko decoration (human-like carving on the tops of the gables). It is a very customary practice of M?ori to address a property as a private individual and give it a name.

It entertained the White Mansion in accordance with the best museums of the age. But in the 1990' it was recognized that the paintings carried out in the 1950' were not appropriate for the authentic, and a restorative program began at that point to restore Hotunui to its former state.

December 2012 saw the Auckland Institute publish a 20-year strategy and investments agenda known as the Future. The Future Musuem will lead a transformation in the Tamaki Paenga Hira - Auckland War Memorial Mu... The He Korahi Memorial will provide a setting for the He Korahi Memorial to adopt M?ori (a format of M?ori), recognize the collection and function of the war memorial, fulfill the capabilities of the memorial structure, enhance the commitment on and off-site, stay enduring, and be a multi-cultural and multi-person/musemorial.

It was the first in Hawaii that we saw and enjoyed such a wood cultivation. Though we did not stop at the Polynesian Cultural Centre on our tour around the Isle, we made a short stop at the Dole Plantation - the Wally World of Aneapple. There were many different types of wood in Japa, such as Ko, but we chose these two woodcarvings.

It' s light to plan and rotates well; it is considered to be high grade upholstery. On the next morning we went to the Iolani-Palast, the formal residency of the Hawaiian Empire. This national historical landmark in Honolulu city centre has been carefully renovated and recounts a period when her Majesties, King Kalakaua, who erected the building in 1882, and his Sr. and Rep. queen, Lili?uokalani, entered its famous theatres.

As unaware as I was of the story of our neighbor to the south and it was quite a surprise to hear of the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; how the new Provisional Army took over and for nine month Queen Lil Lili?uokalani thoroughly inventoried and sold whatever pieces of furnishing and equipment were not fit for governmental action at an auction.

The ?Iolani Palace offers architectures you won't find anywhere else in the whole wide globe. At the first level there is a large hallway with a view of a stairway made of coa-wood. There was a large 1848 wooden Koah pianoforte in the room, where Lili?uokalani performed their works for them. This is where the portrait of three solid side boards, painted by the A.H. Davenport Company in Boston, Massachusetts, are hung, portraying Germans, France, Russia and Britain sovereigns and guides, as are many of the Palace's furniture.

A total of 225 items of furnishings were ordered for the new castle. Each of the four double rooms on the second storey was furnished with similar furnishings, in different types of wood and cushion. King's room was adorned in pale blues with wood and gilded furnishings. She had a queen's room in gold and was furnished in mahagony.

The remaining rooms are made of nut (middle bedroom) and a front room with upholstered cloth and padding in lime colour or olivsgreen. The palatial buildings that had been auctioned and scattered in the course of open auctions were salvaged from 36 states and 4 states. Search for genuine furniture for palaces goes on.

If you believe that you have or have information about any of the items in the palace, please consult the Collections Manager.