Tukutuku

1962

Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Whātua Orākei weavers

Accessible

Type

  • Tukutuku

Medium

  • Woven fibre (unspecified)

Dimensions

  • Eight panels, each H1520 x W840mm

Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Whātua Orākei weavers, ‘Tukutuku’ (1962), Ellen Melville Centre, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Image: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, Sep 2023.

1962–Current

Pioneer Women’s Hall (now Ellen Melville Centre), Level 2, 1 Freyberg Place, CBD, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Organisations
Credit

Gifted by the Māori people of Auckland

Associated Artwork Person(s)
    • Eruera Stirling (Gifter)
Associated Artwork Organisation(s)

Description

The hand woven tukutuku panels were presented to the New Zealand Pioneers’ and Descendants’ Club by Mr and Mrs Eruera Stirling on behalf of the Māori people of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. They were a gift to mark the occasion of the opening of the Pioneer Women’s Hall in 1962.

Ōrākei marae weavers restored both the pātū and tukutuku areas for the re-opening of the venue, renamed the Ellen Melville Centre, on Friday 15th September 2017.

Historically tukutuku were used around the walls of Māori meeting houses, particularly between carvings, and make clever use of natural materials including toetoe-kākaho, tōtara or bracken-fern, kiekie and pīngao.

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