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Title: Tainui : the story of Hoturoa and his descendants
Author: Kelly, Leslie G. (Leslie George)
Published: Polynesian Society, Wellington, N.Z., 1949
Fotatau Te Wherowhero. This picture of the renowned Waikato fighting chief who later became the first Maori King, was drawn by the artist Angus in 1844 at Te O-ki-te-po, a village on the Waipa near Whatawhata.
TAINUI
THE STORY OF HOTUROA AND HIS DESCENDANTS
BY LESLIE G. KELLY
(Te Putu)
THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY (INC.)
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
1949
POLYNESIAN SOCIETY MEMOIR No. 25
Printed and hound by
AVERY PRESS LIMITED
New Plymouth, N.Z.
PREFACE.
For Te Putu :
0 Son—bearer of the h
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Lorna Simpson
Born in Brooklyn, Lorna Simpson came to prominence in the 1990s with her pioneering approach to conceptual photography. Simpson’s early work—particularly her striking juxtapositions of text and staged images—raised questions about the nature of representation, identity, gender, race and history that continue to drive the artist’s expanding and multi-disciplinary practice today. She deftly explores the medium’s umbilical relation to memory and history, both central themes within her work.
Studying on the West Coast in the mid-1980s, Simpson was part of a generation of artists who utilized conceptual approaches to undermine the credibility and apparent neutrality of language and images. Her most iconic works from this period depict African-American figures as seen only from behind or in fragments. Photographed in a neutral studio space, the figures are tied neither to a specific place nor time. Drawing upon a long-standing interest in poetry and literature, the artist
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