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Oriori: A Maori Child is BornFrom Conception to Birth
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| Author: Robyn Kahukiwa & Roma Potiki |
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Selected as one of the Top 20 titles of the 1999 Listener Women's Book Festival.
An Oriori is a chant or lullaby that welcomes a newborn Maori child into this world. At once celebratory and cautionary, it is composed by the child's parents or extended family as a mark of respect for the new life.
Here, Robyn Kahukiwa's magical images and Roma Potiki's powerful words combine to tell the story of one child's conception, gestation and birth. They call on ancient stories associated with the gifting by the mother of the spirit, heart and knowledge of the child - the way the whanau had of passing the wisdom of the iwi to the next generation.
In Oriori we hear many voices - mother to child, whanau to mother, gods to child, but, above all, that of the mother as she prepares her child and herself for the birth.
I realise that I am also all the generations,
a precious vessel.
I ask for help from all sides of
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Illustrated Myths and Legends of the Pacific
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| Author: A. W. Reed & Jennifer Cooper (ill.) |
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A.W. Reed’s classic collection of myths and legends from around the Pacific has been beautifully illustrated by Jennifer Cooper. Jennifer has thoroughly researched art forms from each island group, giving her illustrations cultural integrity. Included are legends from The Caroline Island, Chatham Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, Hawaii, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Britain, New Guinea, New Zealand, Niue, Palau Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tonga and Vanuatu.
First published in 1969, the legends were reissued in 2000 with reproductions of the original line drawings from the first edition. Jennifer Cooper’s illustrations take the text to another level with her stunning interpretations of the stories.
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