Artist Ngaahina Hohaia urged Maori moko artists not to compromise their heritage by tattooing non-Maoris with traditional patterns. “It’s not hers to have, and not for [the tattoo artist] to ...

It's a fisherman's tale with a hook - a couple of bone hooks that is. Greerton youth worker Rangi Ahipene has successfully caught fish with traditional Maori fish hooks made of bone.

The Maori, New Zealand’s Indigenous people, navigated to the country from Polynesia by sea, some arriving as early as the 10th century. Matau, or fishhooks, were among their tools, fashioned ...

A local Maori artist's designs are set to feature in New Zealand Post's Maori Art coin series released next month. The Hei Matau coin, the second in the ...